https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445555
Bug ID: 445555
Summary: Add alternative layouts as easily selectable options
Product: systemsettings
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: kcm_desktoptheme
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: tobi.goerg...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Hey there,
I noticed that KDE Plasma ships with one default layout (the dock at the
bottom) and nothing else, other layouts have to be configured manually. As I
think that most of the users would use one of the following layouts, I think it
would be useful to add them as easily selectable options:
- Windows-like (current default)
- MacOS-like
- GNOME-like
- Unity-like
This could also include an option to add custom layouts and make them visible
there as well.
Customizing one of the default layouts automatically creates a custom layout.
This menu could look like on Zorin-OS (https://bit.ly/3FiPa0e) or feren OS
(https://bit.ly/3HzVfay)
AFAIk this already kind of exists, as global themes can ship with a custom
layout; but this has some disadvantages:
- custom layouts are not available in a default installation
- unexperienced users might overlook the checkbox at the bottom and might
wonder why the layout changed / didn't change as intended
- layouts can't be distributed independent of global themes
- easier accessibility and better understanding of how applying new layouts
work
Global themes could still also include a custom layout, but just as window
decoration or the cursor, the layout should also be selectable independently.
As said, this would also allow users to upload layouts without also having to
include a complete global theme.
This feature would also have to have a way to register panels, also by
third-party-software like latte-dock, so that these docks are saved as well
(though I think there already is an interface for other applications to tell
kwin that they added a panel?)
I think this whole idea would remove another small papercut from the KDE shell,
as I, a user of KDE for about 5 years now, only learned today that global
themes come with a layout (or I might just be exceptionally blind and dumb to
not understand how this works :D)
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