| Summary: | Make settings easier to find | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Sanmay <sanmaycjoshi> |
| Component: | Keyboard Indicator widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aleixpol, materka, nate |
| Priority: | LO | Keywords: | junior-jobs |
| Version First Reported In: | 6.4.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Sanmay
2025-10-07 18:15:38 UTC
Is it a problem that the setting is a bit hard to find, though? It's not exactly an important or commonly-used setting. Linking to it from System Settings is a problem because the option isn't global, it's per-widget. We don't have anything else in System Settings that reaches out and touches individual widgets. Maybe we could surface the options in the popup itself (which is otherwise 99% empty; kind of a waste of space if you ask me) and remove the config dialog entirely, as it's also kind of a waste of space with only two checkboxes in a giant window. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Is it a problem that the setting is a bit hard to find, though? It's not > exactly an important or commonly-used setting. > > Linking to it from System Settings is a problem because the option isn't > global, it's per-widget. We don't have anything else in System Settings that > reaches out and touches individual widgets. It's just that Num Lock on laptops often does't have a light to indicate whether it is on or off, and laptops often do not have the numpad. In these cases, it may be a handy for users if the status for Num Lock is indicated to them; hence the ability to easily change the settings. > Maybe we could surface the options in the popup itself (which is otherwise > 99% empty; kind of a waste of space if you ask me) and remove the config > dialog entirely, as it's also kind of a waste of space with only two > checkboxes in a giant window. Agree. The only issue that would still remain is that you only see the Lock Key applet when the Caps Lock is active. This behavior is understandable but that makes the ability to turn on the Num Lock applet a bit difficult to find. Another option is to have the widget show the Num Lock status by default, like it does for Caps Lock. The justification would be the same: your keyboard *might* not have an indicator light for it. Would you like to give that a try? Basically, you need to append "Num Lock" to the string list here: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/blob/master/applets/keyboardindicator/main.xml?ref_type=heads#L10 I'd love to. Here it is: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/926 |