| Summary: | Change the displayed name in the traditional kickoff KDE3 style menu | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma4 | Reporter: | Sebastian Sauer <mail> |
| Component: | widget-kickoff | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | rdieter, riccardo |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | patch that changes "description" to "name (description)" | ||
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Description
Sebastian Sauer
2008-01-09 23:16:26 UTC
Created attachment 22921 [details]
patch that changes "description" to "name (description)"
The patch above is so far only a sample/suggestion how a solution that tries to
at least take both, generic name and description, into account could look like.
KDE3 did btw provide here an option to switch between;
1. name
2. description
3. description (name)
4. name (description)
there are two related but somewhat separate issues, imo: a) disambiguating between programs with the same generic name. i wonder how difficult (and efficient) it would be to compare if the next or previous item has the same generic name and if so to always paint the subtext in that case. b) allowing different styles for the main text. really, the only options we need here is to turn off the details-on-mouse-hover (so that they are always painted) and define what is in the header text (generic name or specific name). with those two options one can emulate all the behaviours in kde3, no? i realize that the above not useful for the simple menu. it probably needs its own options that are more like the kde3 ones. p.s. if you can remember, please use the kdelibs/plasma coding style =) commit r762886 introduces an option like we had at KDE3. So, it will be available for KDE 4.1 :) In case anyone else wants this for 4.0.x, here's the backport to 4.0.0 I just applied to the Fedora Rawhide kdebase-workspace package: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/kdebase-workspace/devel/kdebase-workspace-4.0.0-kde%23155362.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup And here's one for 4.0.1, courtesy of Jan Mette from kdemod.ath.cx: http://kdemod.ath.cx/svn/branches/kde4/kdebase-workspace/backport-trunk-better_simplemenu.patch http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/rpms/kdebase-workspace/devel/kdebase-workspace-4.0.1-kde%23155362.patch?rev=1.1 Can this be backported to 4.0.2? (I have noticed it was not included in the bunch of backports done over the last few days.) Added Riccardo to the CClist who was/is afaik responsible for the backports ;) @Riccardo Could we backport this one too? Since this hadn't been backported to 4.0 yet (any chance it can get into 4.0.3?), here's an updated patch which applies against 4.0.2: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/rpms/kdebase-workspace/devel/kdebase-workspace-4.0.2-kde%23155362.patch?rev=1.1 Most of this has been merged into 4.0.3, the configuration part has been reverted by Aaron because it introduced new strings right before the 4.0.3 tagging, so here's the patch to restore it: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/rpms/kdebase-workspace/devel/kdebase-workspace-4.0.3-kde%23155362.patch?rev=1.1 |