Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> dixit:
> Anne Wilson posted on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:40:38 +0000 as excerpted:
>
> > On Sunday 29 November 2009 18:24:28 spir wrote:
> >> As a general remark, current kde color settings system is far, far, too
> >> big
> >> & complicated.
> >>
> > It is not expected that most people will fiddle with these details.
> > Usually, choosing a theme to suit your needs is adequate. For those
> > that do feel the need, giving access to as many items as possible is the
> > only way to address that - as you can see from reading Dotan's thread.
>
> FWIW, that's part of the problem, some settings are NOT exposed directly,
> but are set "automagically", in ways entirely unintuitive and
> unpredicatable to the typical sysadmin type used to being able to set
> something and have it affect just that, not that and a half dozen other
> things there was no warning would change as they don't appear to be
> connected at all to the setting that was actually changed.
>
> It wouldn't be half as complicated, if various items weren't
> "automagically" set, to what could well be entirely unsuitable half-way
> colors, based on the setting of not one but two (maybe more?) other
> settings. If those half-way settings were exposed as directly settable
> in themselves, the side effects of setting one thing and having it affect
> something else entirely unexpected, because it wasn't even the specified
> color, would disappear, making the entire thing much more directly and
> intuitively cause-effect predictable, and thus much less complicated,
> even if there ends up being five times the actual number of settings to
> tweak.
>
Yo!
Denis
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