Hello,

First, let me say I like systemsettings way much more than kcontrol :-)

I'm puzzled, however, to have two "appearance" subcategories, namely "common appearance and behavior" and "workspace appearance and behavior". 

It was not like this in the past so I guess you gave some thought to it but, frankly, each time I use systemsetting I get confused. And each time I set up KDE for someone else that is neither a geek or a poweruser but just some common folk, I end up going to both application appearence and workspace appearance anyway. And I guess that the distinction between "application", "workspace" and "desktop" is overkill for plenty users. 

Moreover, I do not really understand how something is distinguished from being "common".  (Note that with some sets of translations, in French for instance, "common" subcategorie is presented to the user after "workspace" one). I mean "default applications" is branded "workspace", how is it more workspace specific than locales? Personal info is where I put my name, how does it relate to "appearance and behavior"? 

Wouldn't it be possible to get all the basic appareance (colors, icons, background images) under the same umbrella and all the behavioral stuff apart?
We often talk about look and feel as it was just one thing. In fact, we more often want to change the look than the feel. There's no learning curve whenever you change colors, icons, etc.

I understand it's quite hard to find a way to organize this stuff in a way that makes sense to most users. But I think there's room for improvement here.
You have plenty of things users won't change often, probably will never change after the initial setup ("account details", "locale", "defaut applications") so maybe they should be apart, then you have cosmetics (colors, icons) then you have behavior (of workspaces, desktop, etc). Maybe this could be a start? Is there an ongoing discussion about this?





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