From kde-usability Sat Sep 24 12:19:36 2005 From: David Laban Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:19:36 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Finding where to go to configure stuff Message-Id: <200509241319.36432.alsuren () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=112756443109604 I was playing about with the GIMP, and I thought of a really cool way to make it easier to configure stuff on KDE. It takes its inspiration from the screenshot tool, and it would probably be implemented in DCOP or something. Here's the behaviour then: 1) Click on the "configure" button on the kicker 2) The mouse cursor turns into a crosshairs (like when you're taking a screen shot) 3) You click somewhere on the screen (in this example I'll use the toolbar on konq) 4) The configure applet finds out the name of the widget that's at the screen location you just clicked on (I heard this is a planned feature in DCOP), and what program it belongs to 5) It looks up both of these pieces of info in a database and brings up a menu that looks like a right-click menu with all the configuration info it can find (in this case it would be "configure toolbars" in the konq menu, and the contents of the "settings" menu for konq. It would also have entried for "colours", "icons" "style" If we took another example....say you clicked on the title bar It would bring up a menu that included the contents of "configure window behaviour" and also the contents of konq's settings menu. It would also include the "colours" control centre module, with the "active title bar" colour selected If we had something like this, then we wouldn't have to venture into the control centre and get lost in the tree structure when we want to configure something (I still haven't worked out how to get the macOS style menu bar or change the background image in konqueror file browser. If someone could tell me, that would be nice :P ) _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability