Bug 283501

Summary:	wish: OSDs for Wireless on/off, 3G on/off, GPS on/off and (un)docking
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	m.wege
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bshah, igor.poboiko, kde, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	kde: Usability?
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description m.wege 2011-10-06 22:10:11 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.1) 
OS:                Linux

It would be nice, if KDE would have On-Screen-Display of for Wireless on/off, 3G on/off, GPS on/off and (un)docking when changing them via keyboard short-cuts.

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
It would be nice if KDE had those OSDs.

Comment 1 m.wege 2011-10-18 08:28:29 UTC

There should be also a set of OSDs for switching between different screen configurations via shortcut: 
- External: Only external screen used
- Internal: Only internat screen used
- Clone: One screen is cloned
- Extentended: Both screens show different content.

Comment 2 Alex Fiestas 2013-03-02 00:24:12 UTC

I agree, this is a valid usecase for when the wireless/bluetooth are disabled using an external button, will try to implement.

Sorry for the delay :/

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-03-08 13:03:50 UTC

We already have the OSD service for things like volume, brightness, keyboard layout, so usually things that happen in response to a keyboard shortcut. Usability: what do you think about these suggestions? I could also imagine providing feedback when you eg press media shortcuts to pause a track and so on.

Comment 4 Igor Poboiko 2016-03-08 14:47:33 UTC

(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #3)
> We already have the OSD service for things like volume, brightness, keyboard
> layout, so usually things that happen in response to a keyboard shortcut.
> Usability: what do you think about these suggestions? I could also imagine
> providing feedback when you eg press media shortcuts to pause a track and so
> on.

BTW, I saw DBus method related to OSD for keyboard layout; but it seems like Plasma desktop doesn't use it. Am I missing something?

Comment 5 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-03-08 14:49:25 UTC

It does here, when I press Ctrl+Alt+K to switch layouts.

Comment 6 Igor Poboiko 2016-03-08 21:45:49 UTC

(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #5)
> It does here, when I press Ctrl+Alt+K to switch layouts.

Oh! Surprise. Works for me as well.
Apparently it works only with "Alternative shortcut", but doesn't work with xkb_group:ctrl_shift_toggle (the "Ctrl+Shift" main shortcut option in layouts KCM).
Should I fill a new bugreport then? I guess the logic can be changed (from "show OSD on shortcut" to "show OSD on layout change")

Comment 7 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-03-08 21:48:57 UTC

That issue is fixed in Wayland.