From kde-core-devel  Sat Oct 03 13:04:08 2009
From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?q?Gr=E4=DFlin?= <ubuntu () martin-graesslin ! com>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:04:08 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: System Settings categorisation overhaul
Message-Id: <200910031504.16961.ubuntu () martin-graesslin ! com>
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Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 11:21:39 schrieb Ben Cooksley:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Martin Gr=E4=DFlin
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> <ubuntu@martin-graesslin.com> wrote:
> > Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 08:50:56 schrieb Ben Cooksley:
> >> Currently in System Settings the categories structure is not very easy
> >> to use, and makes finding settings harder than it should be. In order
> >> to correct this, a complete re-structure of the modules is required,
> >> removing the General / Advanced sorting and giving modules clear
> >> names.
> >>
> >> Dario Andres ( from bugsquad ) and myself have been working on this
> >> and have developed the following plan at this time for the modules
> >> [1]. Please see the following mockup to see how this would look [2].
> >> This is aimed at KDE 4.4 at this point, and we hope to commit it next
> >> week assuming no changes need to be made. We would appreciate
> >> everyone's comments on this.
> >
> > I do not like the "Desktop effects" on toplevel. "Multiple Desktop" and
> > "Screen Edges" do not fit into "Window behaviour". I would prefer a new
> > Module "Workspace" which unites some Plasme and KWin config modules, th=
at
> > is: * Multiple Desktops
> >  * Desktop Effects
> >  * Screen Edges
> >  * Screen Saver (IMO that belongs to workspace and not desktop look)
> >  * and the new "Workspace" module from Plasma - that needs a better name
> > ;-) * (perhaps also Task Switcher)
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> Sorry, but that is too big. The objective of the restructuring is to
> make everything as top level as possible. A name such as Workspace is
> simply too generic. With 6 modules proposed to be in it I can only see
> future Plasma modules increasing it to an confusing level ( see
> current Appearance for what I mean )
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> In this case Desktop Look =3D Workspace Look. Their look and behaviour
> are different things.
> Window Behaviour really meant KWin behaviour ( I think ). Probably
> needs better naming.
KWin has two areas: window management and desktop management. I think to th=
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user it is not obvious that those areas belong together in a technical sens=
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That's why Screen edges shouldn't be in window management ;-)=20
To me window management, desktop management and Plasma is one topic=20
"Workspace". Perhaps that's an idea to split out the behavioural settings f=
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the visual settings. As sebas stated desktop effects are more behaviour tha=
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appearance.

So perhaps spliting the category "Workspace and Application behaviour" into=
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"Workspace behaviour" and "Application behaviour". Then we could move scree=
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edges, desktop effects, etc. into this group directly as toplevels.

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> >> All modules currently provided in KDE SVN will need to be adjusted to
> >> these new categories. For those that are not adjusted, a Legacy
> >> category will be dynamically created by System Settings if a module is
> >> not part of any other categories.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ben Cooksley
> >> System Settings Maintainer
> >>
> >> Note: The mockup is only done to show how the categories would look
> >> relative to each other. The current sizing of icons is not going to
> >> change.
> >>
> >> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/User:DarioAndres/SS3
> >> [2] http://imagebin.ca/view/Y3KUza.html
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