Bug 352346

Summary: Description and options for Hunyango and Haenau wallpaper types are missing
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: adr.fantini
Component: Hunyango wallpaperAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: adamboche, aspotashev, kde, leoni.massimiliano1, nate, postix, tobyfox
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description adr.fantini 2015-09-06 10:55:05 UTC 
While I understand that Hunyango and Haenau are animated QML wallpapers, I have a couple of issues with them:

1- No description whatsoever. How can one be sure of what they do? A first time user will never be able to tell what they do (especially Haenau, which changes very slowly), and will be annoyed at the complete lack of description.
2- Complete lack of customization. At least base color (for Haenau) and base shape (for Hunyango) should be customizable with an option in the desktop settings menu, along with an option for the mutation speed.

If properly documented, these two wallpaper types are a very nice feature. As they are right now, they are more confusing than useful and should IMHO be removed.
Comment 1 Massimiliano 2016-03-08 16:38:21 UTC 
I agree, I have long believed that the lack of settings and description was a bug of Plasma instead of the intended behaviour.
Comment 2 Adam 2016-09-13 06:18:41 UTC 
This is disorienting as a new user.
Comment 3 Łukasz Żarnowiecki 2016-10-06 20:35:41 UTC 
Still valid in 5.8
Comment 4 postix 2022-04-11 20:16:32 UTC 
*** Bug 452518 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 postix 2022-04-11 20:20:32 UTC 
Descriptions are needed in the 'Desktop Folder Settings' as well as for the 'visual appearance' page of the "Screen locking" setting in kcm_workspace.
Comment 6 David Edmundson 2022-04-11 22:09:02 UTC 
I would support (maybe at Plasma 6 to deal with upgrades) dropping them from our codebase and dumping on the store.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2022-04-12 15:56:51 UTC 
I agree with that.