Bug 161644

Summary:	Add the ability to customize the menu button in KDE4.
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Jason <admin>
Component:	widget-kickoff	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bluedzins
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Jason 2008-05-05 06:57:09 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Dan Meltzer 2008-05-05 07:17:37 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Jason 2008-05-05 08:00:48 UTC

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?

Comment 3 Hans Chen 2008-05-05 11:25:52 UTC

Well, the menu button depends on your icon theme, doesn't it? Or is Kickoff different here?

Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-05-05 17:19:59 UTC

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.

Comment 5 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-06-14 11:57:58 UTC

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).

Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-06-24 23:34:56 UTC

this is now possible using the branding SVG. there is no GUI for theme creation yet, but that's another issue.