https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443810
Bug ID: 443810
Summary: Adding Display Settings to the Right-Click Context
Menu is Important (Here's why)
Product: plasma-bigscreen
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Homescreen
Assignee: notm...@gmail.com
Reporter: k...@startport.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
The purpose of this bug report to ensure that a "Display Settings" menu-item
gets added to the right-click context menu that appears when you right-click
the plasma desktop. And, that when this menu-item is clicked, it launches
Display Settings on the very monitor that was right-clicked.
This way, if there is a problem with the primary monitor, you have a way to
disable that monitor, and make the working monitor primary.
I repurposed a laptop, whose monitor no longer worked, as a TV media box
running Kubuntu. Because the primary monitor doesn't work, upon logging into
Kubuntu, I was left with a screen that had no panel. The only thing I could do
is right-click the desktop, but unfortunately, the context menu displayed, did
not have "Display Settings" as a menu option. If it had, it would have been
very easy to disable that bad monitor (that couldn't easily be turned off
because it is built into the laptop)!
Ultimately, I was able to launch "Display Settings" blindly: by hitting the
super key (which displayed nothing) and typing "display" then enter. This
launched display settings onto the monitor that I could not see! So, even
though I couldn't confirm it was there, I moved the mouse cursor over to the
the monitor I couldn't see, and I held down the alt-button and clicked around
until I actually was able to fish display settings over to the working monitor.
After this, I was able to disable that monitor and make the TV primary, and the
monitor with the bad screen is now working well as a media box.
I hope what I've described above is compelling enough, for all to agree that
the "Display Settings" menu-item is a necessary addition to the context menu
that appears when a user right-clicks their desktop. Perhaps that's why Windows
does this. And, don't forget, it is also crucial that upon clicking that menu
item, Display Settings needs to launch onto the very monitor where the
right-click happened, else it would defeat the purpose of this bug report's
goal.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Log into the KDE Plasma Deskop in a dual Monitor Set up.
2. Turn you primary monitor's display away from you, so that you cannot see
anything displayed at all.
3. Attempt to access "Display Setting" on the remaining non-primary monitor.
Keep in mind, by default, there are no panels on additional monitors. So if
you've created some, you'll have to ignore them while reproducing this issue.
OBSERVED RESULT
Most users would have great difficulty accessing Display Settings under these
circumstances. And these circumstance accurately simulate the real-world
circumstance discussed earlier.
EXPECTED RESULT
I expect to be able to right-click any working monitor, and then launch display
settings onto that very monitor by selecting "Display Settings" from a
right-click-context-menu.
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