Bug 324595

Summary:	Simplify theme management
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Rael Gugelmin Cunha <rael.gc>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, dnicolas, kde
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	4.11.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
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Description Rael Gugelmin Cunha 2013-09-06 17:46:27 UTC

Actually, in order to change the KDE look & feel, we can go to System Settings and change:

[Application Appeareance]
Style
Colors
Icons

[Workspace Appeareance]
Window Decorations
Cursor Theme
Desktop Theme
Splash Screen

Additionally, we have the background image.

I know the KDE way is different then Unity, by example, but contrast this to Unity/Windows way, when user just select, or download, a theme to apply.

Even I, a KDE e.V. member, sometimes got confused to remember which option use to change  my taskbar appeareance (or download new "theme" to it), by example.

A first good movement should be, at least, unify all those options under a "Theme" icon in the System Settings panel.

Then, create a theme manager, which can, internally, handle all these groups properly.

If an advanced user want to change all details, of course he/she should be able to do. But for the average users, actually this is a bit hard.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2013-09-06 18:02:16 UTC

Invalid since KWIn is simply the wrong group.

You demand a Theme Manager kcm that picks preconfigured kwin decoration, plasma theme, wallpaper & GUI style - absolutely nothing prevents you or anybody else from writing one, so just start coding ;-)
This should be fairly trivial and you can show your approach/results and call for integration into plasma-workspaces 2.

If you need help, there's kde-devel 'ät' kde 'døt' org

This has however absolutely no relation to the window manager, resp. its config modules itself (except that we do the decoration kcm among half a dozen others - not theming related at all)

For suggestions about systemsettings ("unify all those options under a "Theme" icon"), please file a bug against systemsettings.

Comment 2 Rael Gugelmin Cunha 2013-09-06 18:09:47 UTC

Changed to "systemsettings" group.

Thank you for all clarification, Thomas :)

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2013-09-07 21:10:08 UTC

> user just select, or download, a theme to apply

A prerequisite would be a standard theme package format, which does not seem to exist.

Comment 4 Rael Gugelmin Cunha 2013-09-13 12:16:31 UTC

@Christoph, agree. Probably a package format and a single entry on System Settings should be a good goal.

Comment 5 David Edmundson 2015-01-21 20:22:43 UTC

This seems like what the new Look and Feel KCM in Plasma 5.1 does.