My "thesis" is that the most part of users, usually only open the plasma desktop settings to change the desktop wallpaper, and it is less likely to do so for change more advanced aspects of the desktop configuration.
With this in mind, those elements that are not necessary to perform the action of change the desktop background, they should take a second place.
Of course, it is not about eliminating functions, but each of the elements should have adequate relative share in the module.
Here a small presentation in pdf of this idea:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_nP-bvAo4mtODVhVG0tWUtTNlk/view
The idea is not to redesign the wallpaper module. It is only to optimize the current module. Moving the less used items (I believe) to the background.

I don't like the "Slim down the Plasma Desktop Settings" idea. It doesn't make things easier. It only forces more clicks for such trivial tasks. Recently there was similar idea in Discovery. "Check for updates" was placed in advanced settings. Nonsense idea to me. I reported bug and luckily it was fixed. Let developers focus on fixing bugs and adding functions not on redesigning things all over again.

apache wrote:I don't like the "Slim down the Plasma Desktop Settings" idea. It doesn't make things easier. It only forces more clicks for such trivial tasks. Recently there was similar idea in Discovery. "Check for updates" was placed in advanced settings. Nonsense idea to me. I reported bug and luckily it was fixed. Let developers focus on fixing bugs and adding functions not on redesigning things all over again.

Ok. It's just an idea. If the idea is so bad...i don't think that someone want to apply this anyway. So i think there is no reason to be concerned!
Sorry for the inconvenience.

hi luiscantero,

slim down the settings is the right direction. we already work on it. also we have some simi higs for redesign system settings modules (https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_De ... pplication) I already work on it (https://kdeonlinux.wordpress.com/2016/0 ... lp-needed/) and it would be awesome to talk about some kcm's together (desktop effects)

The idea is horrible. The first what I do after any new Plasma 5 installation (or creating new user) is switching to "Folder view" desktop presentation, because "Desktop view" does not allow launching applications by double click, and I suppose that situation when anything launches from my desktop by single click has no right for existence. The second what I do is changing wallpaper position to "Scaled and cropped", because distorted pictures with disturbed aspect ratio look horrible. I think everibody has such kind of preferences and there is no so much users who are happy with defaults.

The current "Configure desktop" layout is quite good. The only bad thing is absence of information about wallpaper resolution, because using of inappropriate wallpaper size decreases picture quality and causes unreasonable memory usage.

Menak Vishap wrote:The idea is horrible. The first what I do after any new Plasma 5 installation (or creating new user) is switching to "Folder view" desktop presentation, because "Desktop view" does not allow launching applications by double click, and I suppose that situation when anything launches from my desktop by single click has no right for existence. The second what I do is changing wallpaper position to "Scaled and cropped", because distorted pictures with disturbed aspect ratio look horrible. I think everibody has such kind of preferences and there is no so much users who are happy with defaults.

The current "Configure desktop" layout is quite good. The only bad thing is absence of information about wallpaper resolution, because using of inappropriate wallpaper size decreases picture quality and causes unreasonable memory usage.

I think you didn't see the presentation. No current configuration option would be eliminated under this idea. Just integrated in a menu button on the right upper corner. Still, it's okay if the idea looks like "horrible" for you. But this idea, not another.

If all necessary options will be carefully hidden under some featureles unnoticeable button it will prevent a lot of new users to find them quickly. When I started using KDE 4 I did'n t find the "Folder view" presentation at first time and complained for a long time why I can't create new item or folder on Desktop with right-mouse-button click. In case your proposition was realized I would not find "Folder view" for much longer. In KDE 4 "Desktop view" is usable, but in Plasma 5 it is completely unusable for me due to the reason I mentioned above. So, if I was a novice in KDE and didn't find "Folder view" in Plasma 5 immediately I would probably just throw it away for a long time, may be forever. So, hidding useful options dos not favour new users attraction.