| Summary: | lock/logout plasmoid: provide distinct plasmoids, lock and logout | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma4 | Reporter: | Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | emdeck, finex, konstantinos.smanis |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Maciej Pilichowski
2008-06-22 19:36:58 UTC
Planned for 4.2 to add a configuration interface to let the user choose if he want the both, just the lock or just the lockout. If a reduction in configuration options is really a goal, wouldn't it be better to have two separate applets? You get the same features, with fewer "options" cluttering things up. At this point, why not add even "restart" and "hybernate"? If buttons are configurable, this will allow to choose all possible combinations :-) @Thomas: moving options around doesn't eliminate them it just moves them around. now, moving them to the best place possible makes it easier to use, breadth versus depth, selection lists, etc. in this case, moving all possible buttons individually into the Add Applets section would add more breadth to that list, while many users actually want a *set* of these buttons. so the two work flows are: * Open Add Widgets * Find and Add button 1 * Find and Add button 2 * Open Add Widgets * Find and Add power controls * Configure power controls the latter one provides fewer and more context appropriate selections at each step; particularly consider that in the multiple widget situation buttons 1 and 2 will almost certainly not be adjacent; the "Find" action therefore is the expensive one. that's why i'm suggesting what i did. @FiNeX: absolutely. (why do so many design discussions happen on bugs.kde.org these days?) (@Aaron: maybe because from a "techical" point of view KDE4 works, but now KDE4 need to be used, and for being used it need to be usable) (@FiNeX: that doesn't explain why people no longer use the mailing lists as much and instead us bugs.kde.org which is insanely poor with my time.) Just were going to send a wish for a customizable and more general power options plasmoid but seems to be already planned. Great. It is possible to create shortcuts and use "icon plasmoid". These commands works fine on my computer (KDE 4.1.2): Lock: dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.Lock Logout: dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout int32:1 int32:0 int32:1 This wishlist was implemented as of revision 923911 (http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=923911), but I am not empowered enough to mark it as fixed. Maybe shomeone else can do this for me? Konstantinos, thank you. |