Bug 244879 - qt4: Configuration panel is in desktop preferences menu
Summary: qt4: Configuration panel is in desktop preferences menu
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 533139 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-19 17:10 UTC by Jonathan Blandford
Modified: 2013-04-02 04:21 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-04-27 07:37:17 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Havoc Pennington 2007-06-19 17:10:50 UTC
Including the name of a non-user-visible programming tool (like "Qt4") in a menu
item name is always a very bad sign, unless it's in the Programming menu.

I don't think there's a way to just rename this - "control panel with a variety
of settings duplicating other settings you already set, but which may not have
applied to certain apps" is not a good name either.

I would either delete this .desktop file or move it to Applications->Programming
if it is useful for developers.

The real fix of course (which I would have thought we already had!) is to make
the theme control panel also control the Qt4 theme, the font control panel also
control the Qt4 font, and so forth. Surely under KDE this is already the case at
least.

In any case, deleting this .desktop entirely is better than the status quo, if
no ideal fixes are forthcoming.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2007-06-19 18:00:43 UTC
I assume you're talking about "Qt4 Config" here?  
Included "Qt4" only to differentiate it from the qt3 equivalent (both qt3 and
qt4 include a qtconfig tool to set prefs, look-n-feel, etc...).

If qtconfig is packaged, I'm uncomfortable not installing a .desktop file for it
(maybe NoDisplay=True, but I'm not too keen on that either).

A better name for it is certainly warranted, regardless.  The window Title for
this app is "Qt Configuration", would that be more acceptable?


Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2007-06-19 18:37:20 UTC
IMO unless it's a developers-only thing in Programming, the visibility of this 
program is just a bug; there is no way it makes sense for users to configure 
Qt4 fonts, themes, etc. somewhere other than in the control panels 
labeled "Font" and "Theme" (or KDE equivalents, under KDE).

Even if (and this is a huge "if") Qt4 needed separate config from the global 
settings, said separate config should be somewhere in the Font and Theme and so 
on control panels, not in a Qt4 control panel.

Renaming "Qt Configuration" doesn't help - the point is that "uses Qt/Qt3/Qt4" 
is a developers-only categorization of apps, with no meaning to someone just 
trying to use the desktop. "Qt" is technical jargon, as is "GTK" or "Tk" or 
whatever else. We banned toolkit names from the menus (other than Programming 
submenu) many years ago.

I think a fine fix would be to just drop the .desktop file, second choice would 
be to relocate it to Programming. Maybe others have better ideas.

Of course, if Qt4 really does not honor the global settings in the normal 
control panels, that is a larger problem that will need fixing as well.


Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2007-08-10 12:31:35 UTC
Than, do you have an opinion on how best to treat qt-config's .desktop file and
appearance/placement in the menus (the same can be asked of qt v3)?

Comment 5 Than Ngo 2008-01-31 13:47:06 UTC
IMO moving qt-config into Programming catagorie isn't correct, becuase it's a 
setting tool. We should add OnlyShowIn=KDE in qt-config.desktop file. So it 
only appears in kde desktop. I think it's the best option.

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2008-01-31 14:01:35 UTC
I really really dislike OnlyShowIn.  Why?  imo, it's not a solution, but a
band-aid, either all users (in all desktops) should be able to see/use this
config tool, or they shouldn't.  

Havoc's right, of cousre, qt uses (should!) global/desktop settings, and use of
this tool is pretty much useful only for power users or developers (at best).

With that in mind, the more I think about it, the more I tend to think a
NoDisplay=True
solution, while still not ideal, sucks less than any other option I can think of.

Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2008-01-31 15:54:18 UTC
Than and I discussed it, and we agreed to remove qtconfig from the menus (via 
NoDisplay=true), but to wait to implement it until qt-4.4 lands.

Comment 8 Kevin Kofler 2008-05-02 16:32:33 UTC
I don't think we should hide qtconfig, it contains useful settings.

Comment 9 Rex Dieter 2008-05-07 17:10:33 UTC
fixed in qt-4.4.0 in rawhide (F10).

Comment 10 Michel Lind 2008-08-21 20:03:01 UTC
For consistency, should not this be applied to qt3 (the qt3-config subpackage) as well?

Comment 11 Kevin Kofler 2008-08-21 21:36:04 UTC
I still don't think hiding qtconfig was a good idea in the first place.

Comment 12 Michel Lind 2008-08-23 07:10:20 UTC
FWIW, I don't think it should be hidden either. How about making qt{3,4}-config desktop entries be under "Settings;DesktopSettings;" categories? That will make them appear under System->Preferences->Look and Feel, together with Appearance and Desktop Effects.

Comment 13 Michel Lind 2008-09-26 00:29:01 UTC
Reopening -- Rex, per comment #12, could qt4-config be made to appear in Settings;DesktopSettings? We can then ask Than to do the same for qt3.

Comment 14 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 01:55:27 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 15 Rex Dieter 2009-11-05 13:48:31 UTC
*** Bug 533139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 17 Rex Dieter 2009-11-18 13:41:55 UTC
Rebasing to rawhide


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