System Settings is highly user-visible, much more so than KInfoCenter (e.g. System
Settings is one of the default Favorites in Kickoff, while KInfoCenter is not). This
makes it likely that people will mistakenly go to System Settings looking for the
kind of information that's visible only in KInfoCenter.
This patch adds an action to System Settings that will open KinfoCenter, which makes
it more discoverable.
FEATURE: 409811
FIXED-IN: 5.17.0
Action works and opens KInfoCenter when clicked on.
How it's accessed in the default sidebar view:
...And in Icons view (same with old fashioned Tree view):
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An alternative approach would be to simply show KCM itself in System Settings by adding X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=<something> to the about-dostro.desktop file that KInfoCenter ships:
This makes it more discoverable when using Sidebar view, but has some disadvantages:
An alternative approach would be to simply show KCM itself in System Settings by adding X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=<something> to the about-dostro.desktop file that KInfoCenter ships:
This makes it more discoverable when using Sidebar view, but has some disadvantages:
- There isn't really a 100% appropriate parent category to put it in
- Visiting the KCM within System Settings doesn't expose all the information available in KInfoCenter's other pages. I suppose we could add a Show More Information button to this KCM when it's opened in something other than KInfoCenter if we wanted to pursue the alternative approach instead of the one in this patch.
I really like this integrated approach.
While I have no access to linux or Plasma at the moment ... but when I remember correctly there could appear a "system administration" category when installing the systemd-kcm for example.
I personally like the alternative aproach, as it is what I had in mind when submitting the bug report.
- There isn't really a 100% appropriate parent category to put it in
It could be the last item in the Hardware section. Also, IIRC Gnome does it like this (not that we should copy Gnome or anything, it just feels intuitive).
And here's the patch for the alternative approach: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22742