Version: (using KDE 4.0.3) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux User/Distro should have the ability to customize the image of the menu/start button. Example 1: The Kubuntu distribution should be able to have the Kubuntu logo as the menu button in the Kubuntu KDE4 distribution. Example 2: The user should be able to customize his/her desktop to look however they want. If I want to theme my menu button, I should have that ability available to me in the theme editor.
This is already doable by replacing the image on disk. I don't really think this is common enough to merit a visible config option anywhere.
What about in the theme manager? When a user applies a theme, they don't want to search for the image (wherever it is hidden) and replace it. They want it to come with the theme or select it from the theme manager. Who wants to waste time trying to figure out how to hack your desktop just to change themes when an option can be made available in the control panel just like when you change wallpaper, window borders, cursors, icons, screen savers, login windows, and other themeable items?
Well, the menu button depends on your icon theme, doesn't it? Or is Kickoff different here?
it relies on the icon theme, yes. *however* i do agree that this may be well served by an optional entry in the branding.svg, perhaps additionally as a (non-gui) config option so the icon name isn't hard coded. it would be really neat to bling it up even a bit more with mouse over effects and what not.
I opt for GUI way, the exactly same way as you configure the icon for the apps on the panel (so code is already there). Ad.#1, Dan -- it is not common, because it is hardly possible, however I would like to set my own images to reflect that this is menu entry, not an app (very misleading for average users).
this is now possible using the branding SVG. there is no GUI for theme creation yet, but that's another issue.