On March 16th, 2012, 11:45 a.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

personally, i'm unsure why this menu entry is even there. imho people should simply go into system settings. this just makes one more place we have to manage which panels and in which order they are shown. is there really so much benefit to having it in the right click menu?

now, i say that as someone who uses that menu item fairly often. so for *me* it has value there as a shortcut, but i'm rarely using it as a *user* but as a *developer* and watching others use KWin it's not an often used entry either.

personally, despite my own use of this menu item, i think it's something best left to system settings.

On March 16th, 2012, 12:14 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:

A fair enough question. For me as a developer it is a must-have feature, though it does not need to be exposed that strongly (e.g. move to advanced submenu) or even adding a build option for it.

What I am unsure about is how much do we screw over the documentation teams. A google search on "Configure window behavior" KDE gives > 5000 results with references in books and so on. Search for the German translation gives another 700 results. It is a feature for advanced users and already quite hidden. But I think for providing user support it's quite a useful feature.

i don't agree that providing support is any easier or harder than starting with "start system settings" (which is more consistent of an approach, but not as immediate as right clicking on a title bar), but i do agree that the documentation references are a killer. for that reason i withdraw my proposal.

- Aaron J.

On March 15th, 2012, 11:19 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:

Adding Plasma to get general feedback on this idea.

The context menu entry to "Configure Window Behavior" opens the
configuration of the window manager and not about the window.
In the past the shown configuration dialog only contained entries
affecting the window behavior but that is no longer true for the
complete KDE 4.x series since Desktop Effects had been added to
the menu. This change in naming reflects the situation and should
help to remove confusion.