> On March 16, 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. > > 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104284/#review11460 ----------------------------------------------------------- On March 15, 2012, 11:19 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104284/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated March 15, 2012, 11:19 a.m.) > > > Review request for kwin and Plasma. > > > Description > ------- > > 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. > > > This addresses bug 249486. > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249486 > > > Diffs > ----- > > kwin/useractions.cpp dfb6fd4 > > Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104284/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > > Thanks, > > Martin Gräßlin > >
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