Currently the "Display Configuration" (= "Manage and configure monitors and displays") dialog is accessible via the System Settings dialog or by using krunner and knowing its name.

To make the access to "Display Configuration" more intuitive, does anything speak against putting a menu item for "Display Configuration" to the Plasma menu (formerly known as the Cashew) and/or the context menu of the desktop?

Good idea, +1

It will be tracked here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355679

Why does it belong there?

Note I want an answer that isn't "because windows does".

david_edmundson wrote:Why does it belong there?

Note I want an answer that isn't "because windows does".

You want to change the way the monitor is showing you things. You can't right-click on the actual monitor, so a bare desktop is the closest you can get to that.

korsakoff wrote:

david_edmundson wrote:Why does it belong there?

You want to change the way the monitor is showing you things. You can't right-click on the actual monitor, so a bare desktop is the closest you can get to that.

+1

david_edmundson wrote:Note I want an answer that isn't "because windows does".

Isn't there already some sticky topic that makes it clear why this no-go-argument shouldn't be used as reason? I ask because I often see similar notes where the original poster did not even mention Windows or Mac. The link to the sticky topic could be thrown at him as soon as he actually starts to use the "X has it too" argument.

Reminds me of a quote I read years ago:

http://toastytech.com/guis/win7.html wrote:The desktop right-click context menu also now contains a "Screen Resolution" option.

When Microsoft replaced the "Display Properties" menu with the "Personalize" menu in Vista, users had to wade through the more complicated webby style "Personalize" window to get to that. I wonder if MS actually listened to consumers on this one or if it was just to stop the chair throwing when Balmer tried to use his laptop with the projector in meetings.

Here my menu suggestion.

Current desktop context menu:

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Create New           >
---
Icons                >
Paste Clipboard Contents...
Undo
Refresh Desktop
---
Run Command...       Alt+Space
Activities...        Alt+D, Alt+A
Unlock Widgets       Alt+D, L
---
Lock Screen          Ctrl+Alt+L
Leave...             Ctrl+Alt+Del
---
Open with Dolphin    Alt+D, T
Folder View Settings Alt+D, Alt+S


Suggested menu with the following changes:
- Add a new submenu "Diagnostics" (this is off-topic to this thread and could be discussed separately; I find it useful to have explicit access to these tools: System Activity and KSysguard)
- Add a new submenu "Configure" with three items
. - "Change Wallpaper" (NEW, should take the user directly to the Wallpaper settings page => currently same as Desktop Settings)
. - "Desktop Settings" (MOVED from top level menu)
. - "Display Settings" (NEW)

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Create New           >
---
Icons                >
Paste Clipboard Contents...
Undo
Refresh Desktop
---
Run Command...       Alt+Space
Activities...        Alt+D, Alt+A
Unlock Widgets       Alt+D, L
---
Lock Screen          Ctrl+Alt+L
Leave...             Ctrl+Alt+Del
---
Open with Dolphin    Alt+D, T
Diagnostics          >
                            System Activity      Ctrl+Esc
                            System Monitor
Configure            >     
                            Wallpaper
                            Desktop Settings Alt+D, Alt+S
                            Display Settings