Bug 222936

Summary:	Please add a "configuration chooser" dummy window.
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	general	Assignee:	System Settings Bugs <sourtooth+ssbugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
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Description Dotan Cohen 2010-01-16 08:00:12 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)

Please add a tool which allows the user to click on an element in a KDE or Plasma window to set configuration options for it. Often times users want to configure a certain aspect of KDE but do not know which of the System Settings options would affect it.

This tool might work like the "eyedropper" tool in Kolourpaint: This user clicks the tool icon, and the cursor changes into a crosshair. The user then clicks on the element that he is interested in, and a window pops up with links to configuration options such as colour, font size, icon size, etc.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-16 08:05:20 UTC

Usage case: the user wants to change the System Tray (i) icon's font size because he cannot read it with his poor eyes. Would that be under Accessibility? No... Maybe Notifications (it does give notifications)? No... Well, there is a Font Installer, but that's not it either... Nothing relevant under Advanced... Maybe Appearance? Ah, here is Fonts!!! Should I change the General or the Taskbar font? Hmmm, neither work! Arg!!!!!

(can you guess what the user should have configured, assuming that you do not already know?)

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2010-01-18 01:56:46 UTC

This needs to be handled by the applications themselves, as the workspace cannot read/write inside widgets of applications. This probably would have been possible if applications/KDE would have used "real" X11 properties, but it has long been decided to abandon this.

While your request includes fonts and icon sizes, it is technically a duplicate of 179973, i.e. if colors would be possible, other properties would also be.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179973 ***

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-18 16:26:16 UTC

As System Settings cannot get this info from the windows, then a dummy window or application that the user can click on to learn what the individual components are called is necessary.

I am retitling the bug to reflect that. Also, I am removing the dupe mark as it is in fact a separate request:
1) This bug now requests a dummy window/app
2) This bug requests features not requested in bug 179973 (fonts, icons)

Thanks

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2020-01-15 19:06:27 UTC

This seems like a workaround for confusing design. Instead, we should just improve the design. :) I like to think we've been doing this at breakneck speed recently.