Bug 475988 - Change header dropdown from "window borders" to "button size"
Summary: Change header dropdown from "window borders" to "button size"
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_kwindecoration (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: unspecified Unspecified
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2023-10-23 03:45 UTC by tqd8
Modified: 2023-10-24 21:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Window borders dropdown (89.54 KB, image/png)
2023-10-24 00:00 UTC, tqd8
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Button size dropdown (123.65 KB, image/png)
2023-10-24 00:01 UTC, tqd8
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Description tqd8 2023-10-23 03:45:10 UTC
SUMMARY
Changing the size of the min/max/close/etc buttons is a much more common task than changing the window border size. In fact, the window border options are kind of weird-looking with the default Breeze theme.

Plus it'd be a smaller dropdown that would make the currently-crowded header more neat. And it'd nicely match the "Configure Titlebar Buttons" button right next to it. (Or, alternatively, adding the button size dropdown to the "Configure Titlebar Buttons" page would be good.)

Would be better to have the border size dropdown within each individual theme configuration (e.g. "Edit Breeze Theme").


OS: KDE Neon Unstable (2023 10 22)
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-10-23 20:52:18 UTC
Which header dropdown where? Can you attach a screenshot that shows the thing you think should be changed?
Comment 2 tqd8 2023-10-24 00:00:24 UTC
Created attachment 162521 [details]
Window borders dropdown
Comment 3 tqd8 2023-10-24 00:01:33 UTC
Created attachment 162522 [details]
Button size dropdown
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2023-10-24 19:21:45 UTC
Thanks. I don't think we have any indication that the button size is changed with more frequency than the border size, so I think we'll be keeping this the way it is. Thanks again for the idea, though!
Comment 5 tqd8 2023-10-24 21:09:02 UTC
Okay, thanks!

What do you think about adding (or moving) the Button Size dropdown to the "Configure Titlebar Buttons" page? So that you could change what the buttons are, and also change how big they are, on the same page.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2023-10-24 21:15:59 UTC
Unfortunately that can't be done because button size isn't universal to all themes; it's something that only specific themes implement. That's why the setting is in a config window specific to the Breeze theme.