On Friday, August 21, 2015 09:13:11 PM Andrew Lake wrote: > My own opinion, having written the original code, is that we should simply > remove it altogether. I consider it an extreme corner case for > customization that, at best, belongs in a Plasma theme creation tool, not > system settings. > > Andrew
I agree but, with the caveat that we really should look into some way to get work on a theme creator tool underfoot somehow (I have no idea what the most sensible way to do that would be) > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 1:40 PM Kai Uwe Broulik <k...@privat.broulik.de> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was just looking at the Desktop Theme Details KCM (System Settings → > > Workspace Design → Details) and figured it's of not much use anymore. Imho > > the > > way the interaction with it worked wasn't particularly good to begin with, > > suddenly creating a "(Custom)" theme when you edited another one, but the > > one > > you selected in the list above isn't neccessarily the theme you're using, > > etc. > > > > So, let's look at the options it offers: > > > > * Color Scheme: Kinda works but given it also influences the background > > contrast, conflicts with the dialog/panel backgrounds > > * Panel background: Doesn't always work (panel stays the same somtimes) > > * Kickoff: No effect? What should it change anyway, it's up to the applet > > (it > > changes dialogs/kickoff, if that is even used anymore..) > > * Task items: Completely screws up the task manager if I touch that > > * Widget background: Seems okay > > * Translucent background: also okay > > * Dialog background: doesn't do anything > > * Analog Clock: works, seems kinda valid usecase; though all other DEs > > I've > > seen just provide that in the clock itself > > * Sticky Notes: Dunno, should work, but then I haven't seen a theme with > > different sticky notes - we still use the Oxygen ones even now :) One > > thing I > > would like to see is a default color for the notes, so a dark theme can > > have > > black notes by default > > * Tooltip: doesn't do anything > > * Pager: seems to work > > * Run dialog: Given KRunner is a regular dialog nowadays doesn't do > > anything > > * Logout dialog: Provided by LNF theme anyway > > * Icons: Kinda works, mostly seems to affect only system tray, as most > > icons > > are provided by the overall icon theme > > > > What should we do with this thing? > > > > PS: Air and even more Oxygen Plasma theme are pretty broken, we should > > either > > fix them (especially task manager, potentially revert the follow theme > > color > > stuff to provide a more 4.x-esque look) or kill them. > > _______________________________________________ > > Plasma-devel mailing list > > Plasma-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel