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KPersonalizer - Whitepaper
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Questions & Answers:
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Torsten Rahn <torsten@kde.org>
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Carsten Wolff <wolff@kde.org>
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Ralf Nolden <nolden@kde.org>
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Daniel Molkentin <danimo@kde.org>
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Aim:
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When the user starts KDE for the very first time the very first impression is
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critical and will decide whether the user likes or dislikes KDE. While this
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might not sound very"fair" or "logical" it's the way people think and perceive
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their environment.
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The aim of KPersonalizer is to provide the pleasant look & feel the user expects
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on the very first startup. To determine which look and feel the user prefers he
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is guided through a minimal set of steps.
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What Kpersonalizer is _not_ about:
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Kpersonalizer is not a wizard which configures your hardware, mount-points or
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any other distribution-related stuff. KPersonalizer is only meant to deal with
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the Look & Feel KDE provides. As soon as we would touch distribution-related
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stuff we risk that distributions might disable KPersonalizer. To encourage
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distributions to make use of it it should easily be possible to extend or change
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the behaviour of KPersonalizer.
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KPersonalizer is not meant to be part of KControl
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KControl is rather a graphical registry where you can change every little
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detail in a hierarchically arranged order. One really has to know about the
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details when changing stuff and one only changes things one by one.
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KPersonalizer on the other hand asks the user very basic questions
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that don't require much background-knowledge and tries to guess a set
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of configuration-settings which fit the users needs best.
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Layout: KPersonalizer consists of a window which is not set fullscreen.
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This has the advantage that the user sees on the fly which settings he has
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changed and can step back as he sees that something doesn't fit.
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On the left of each dialog there is a decorative 170x430-pixel-bitmap which
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sort of describes the step in a graphical manner.
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Step 1:
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Introduction:
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The Introduction should give the user a warm welcome. It should explain
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what KPersonalizer will do during the next step and that the user will be able
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to refine the settings afterwards in the last step using kcontrol.
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Most distributions I am aware of generally set one language for all users as a
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first default. In certain situations the user might not speak the language
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of the default installation which was done by the Sysadmin.
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Therefore it makes sense to prompt the user for "his" country.
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Judging from the country Kpersonalizer will make all settings according to that
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country (language, currency, etc.).
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As distributions might take care of this step it should stay easy to disable
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that part of the dialog.
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Step 2:
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Here the user is asked for the way his computer should act like in the future.
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Once again this step only deals with the way the computer works - not with the
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look.
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Depending on the radiobutton which is enabled you get a description which
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lists the feautres of each setting:
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KDE (default):
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The default-setting which you would get if you would disable
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KPersonalizer.
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Microsoft Windows (TM):
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- Double Click
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- Busy Cursor
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- Windows keyboard scheme
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- use 2 clipboards for c&p (keyboard/mouse) (default)
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- Window-Behavior -> Focus on click
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- Titlebar doubleclick -> Maximize
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- WindowList-menu on MMB
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- Walk trough windows mode: KDE
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- NOT underline IconText
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- NOT change pointer shape over an icon
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UNIX (TM):
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- Single Click
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- No busy-cursor
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- UNIX -keyboard-scheme.
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- synchronize clipboards
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- Window-Behavior -> Focus follows mouse
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- Titlebar doubleclick -> Shade
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- Application-menu on MMB like in FVWM
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- Walk trough windows mode: CDE
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- NOT underline IconText
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- NOT change pointer shape over an icon
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MacOS:
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- Single Click
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- No Busy Cursor
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- Mac- Keyboard-Scheme
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- use 2 clipboards for c&p (keyboard/mouse) (default)
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- Window-Behavior -> Focus on click
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- Titlebar doubleclick -> Shade (for now. MacOS X has Minimize but this isn't offered by twin yet)
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- Menubar on top
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- WindowList-menu on MMB
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- Walk trough windows mode: KDE
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- NOT underline IconText
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- change pointer shape over an icon
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Step 3: Eyecandy-O-Meter
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The most prominent part the user should see is a big slider. Using this slider
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he can easily choose the level of eyecandy. Some people prefer to have a Fast &
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Lean environment with small desktop-items and other prefer a Big, Beautiful and
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resource-wasting behaviour.
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To give the advanced user still some control over what is being changed all
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items affected are being displayed in a small listview below. In front of each
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listview-item there is a checkbox.
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These items are being checked or unchecked depending on the position of the
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slider. "Big & Beautiful" means that all items are checked, Fast and Lean means
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that all items are unchecked.
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As soon as the user touches the checkbox of one of the items directly the
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state of that particular checkbox is not being changed by the position of the
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slider anymore. Pressing a "Reset"-button will put all items back into the
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position/state where the dialog started from.
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Features which are affected by the slider are being mentioned in the
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following list of Levels:
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Level 0 (No Eyecandy):
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- No animations, no eyecandy, nothing :)
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Level 1:
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- Show Wallpaper
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- Animate Shading, Minimize & Restore (window effects)
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- Display content in moving/resizing windows
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Level 2:
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- Show Konqueror/Kicker-backgrounds
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Level 3:
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- Show Iconeffects (Highlightning)
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- Icon Zooming (ONLY MAC)
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Level 4 (Default for slow machines):
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- Icon Animations (mng)
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- Desktop-Iconsize = 48 (if Resolution >= 1024x768) (ONLY MAC/CDE)
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- Panel- Iconsize = 56 (if Resolution >= 1280x1024) (ONLY MAC/CDE)
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Level 5:
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- Enable Image-Previews
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Level 6:
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- Enable Animated Combo boxes
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Level 7 (default for fast machines):
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- Enable Antialiased Fonts
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- Enable Fade tool tips
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- Enable Fade menus
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Level 8:
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- Enable Text-Previews
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- Icon Zooming (ALL SELECTIONS)
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- Desktop-Iconsize = 48 (if Resolution >= 1024x768) (ALL SELECTIONS)
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- Panel- Iconsize = 56 (if Resolution >= 1280x1024) (ALL SELECTIONS)
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Level 9 (Maximum Eyecandy):
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- Enable Icons on PushButtons
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- Enable all kinds of File-Previews
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- Enable Sound
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(The number of events which offer a sound corresponds directly to the
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"eyecandy-level".)
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Idea for the future: The default-position of the slider might depend on the
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measured performance/resources of the computer.
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Step 4: Theme-Selection
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The user can choose from 4-5 themes each of them representing a look and feel
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which is very different from each other and might correspond with the choice
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made in Step 2 a bit :-)
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Basically this changes Icons, the widgetstyle, the WM-decoration, the
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Colourscheme, tiles and Wallpapers.
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There is a preview for each theme.
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Step 5: Refinement
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The user is told how he can start KPersonalizer again if the user changes his
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mind on a certain setting later and the advanced user may launch kcontrol to
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refine certain settings.
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EOF
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