Gnome and Windows both have Control Panel which elegantly store all the quick settings like Wifi, Bluetooth ,Battery . Brightness,VPN,Sound,Night Light
Third one is available from github _com/Prayag2/kde_controlcentre
But it does not cut it coz it does not shows icon with relevant details when minimized
Even though I love the in-depth single controls available for Battery, WiFi and Sound but they could be stored more aesthetically inside a grouped quick settings with all those intense features built inside sub-sections of relevant quick-settings tiles.
Actually that control panel that Microsoft originally came up with is one of the best things they had done in a very long time. A lot quicker to access certain settings via it than going to their control panel.
But it is very cluttered experience and people coming from any other major OS or even Gnome tend to miss it like Single click to select and Double Click to Open Folder finally being default in Dolphin
I ran all versions of Windows from 95 through 8 and I can tell you that panel is not cluttered. I’m no MicroSour fan but I have to give it to them on that.
If they attempt to put all those options inside one widget, it will be lacking many options, and it will require more clicks to access advanced ones, and Plasma users who are customized to play with their options will start complaining.
Plasma main feature is customization and never restrict users, that’s why many left that restricted GNOME and adopted this beautiful desktop.
That approach may be optimal for small touch screens, but not for mouse users, especially the ones with big screens.
NO ONE said ANYTHING about any of those function ONLY being available in that widget. Just like in windows you would be able to access all in their normal way as well.
We basically already have it… just click the arrow on your status tray. Clicking individual status icons / plasmoids is faster and easier than opening a control center. In Windows 11, to change the wifi network, you need to click to open the control center, then click again to open the wifi settings. The way Plasma is now, it’s just one click to open the wifi settings.
Control center is a step backwards, but there’s widgets you can add if you want that functionality.
Probably my favuorite plasma feature is an option to select which tray icons are always hidden (ok, windows has it also), but also to set keyboard shortcut to show hidden tray icons. That way with one keyboard stroke (left hand) and one click (right hand), I am able to activate needed program in less than a second (and it’s not about time spent, it’s about great workflow)
I know it’s not a big thing for many, but for me it’s one of the main reasons why I don’t use e.g. Cinnamon
But how many times a person has to change advance settings , in comparison a single toggle is more likely to be done for Hotspot, WiFi , Bluetooth, Sound muting and Screen Brightness altering.
I have tried it earlier , but it has issues with functionality , it does not shows current status in panel of different quick settings in collapsed form like it does in Windows , it just shows a button to expand it
Yes that is what I am trying to say , having highly customizable quick settings would be better approach , like middle click to on collapsed icons to direcly open advance settings of that plasmoid from panel and single click to open the quick settings .
I don’t see why an Android-style approach can’t be taken (Quick Toggles that can be rearranged, hidden, 3rd party options)
Maybe you could make a left click of any of the buttons open up an entire tray of toggles, but right clicking any of the individual icons could open the respective pages for those in the toggle tray (and add arrows like how Windows does). (This is all from the panel, but that right click behavior could be carried into the actual page of toggles itself. Middle click functionality could be preserved, and you could still keep the option of what to show in the tray or not. I hate the current system because it is already half of a quick settings system anyways, just more inconvenient and it wastes space in the panel when I need to access on/off toggles that could be aggregated quickly.)
What people are forgetting is that it saves time if you want to do multiple tasks at once. If I want to cut the wifi and the bluetooth under the current system I would have to exit those menus, then go to the other one and click again, when I could just click two different buttons without changing pages.
KDE is the only major UI left that doesn’t follow the Quick Toggles system. Windows, MacOS, Gnome, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android all follow the same model with this. Hell, Plasma Mobile already has it also. There clearly must be some benefit to the system if the vast majority of the world’s users are using quick toggles instead of seperate menus.
It’s simpler, more accesible, more convenient, and to boot way prettier. The Plasma Mobile Quick Settings are gorgeous, port those to desktop and call it a day. It can highlight this new rounded direction Breeze is going in, offer a spot to showcase the user’s accent color, and make KDE not use antiquated desktop paradigms that the rest of the world has already moved on from.
