https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498737

--- Comment #12 from John <ilikef...@waterisgone.com> ---
To me, after the change, how it's shown here it's perfect!
https://invent.kde.org/-/project/2703/uploads/a2fe9572e6a472b6d258595de4aaea12/After.png

The only thing that is a bit sad it's the fact that the change is intended for
version 6.4, which means that it will miss being in the next Debian release 13
(Trixie), which most likely will come with Plasma 6.3.x, but not 6.4, so I'll
have to wait 2+ more years to be able use it.
But who knows, maybe after Debian 13 is released in the summer, if I switch to
its 'testing' repository Plasma 6.4 will come there eventually.
Anyway, it's there and it will come sometime in the future.

As for the "lock Screen" and "Show Logout Screen" I don't have them already in
Plasma 6.2.5 and I don't miss them as I probably never used them since most of
the time there's no one I need to lock my computer from. If I really  need that
I would do it from the start menu.
Same for the logout screen, as I'm the only user on my computers.

For the wallpaper actions, they would indeed make sense to be near the "Desktop
and Wallpaper" (probably just below it.
But I would take out the "Open wallpaper image" and put instead of it a
"Previous wallpaper" so there are both previous and next.

While it would be cooler to have "Desktop and wallpaper" absolutely at the
bottom and these two optional items below it, I'm not sure I would trade that
for the usability and importance of "Display configuration", which must be as
easy as possible to find and identify when the screen is broken such as:
 - Having a resolution too low or too high.
 - Having a scaling too low or too high.
- Having a brightness too low.
- Having bad orientation.
- Having bad position in multi-monitor mode.
 - Having bad colors.
 - HDR not being enabled.

To me, being able to solve problems and annoyances fast, when they occur, show
how professional and well thought a DE is and the best is that the item that
can fix the problem is in a good position, meaning first or last.
Since first is already taken by the productivity option, which is Create new
stuff and these problems that may occur are not so often, then last it seems to
me to be the best position.
Remember that it's last at all times, could help also with the cases where we
need to fix the broken screen or not broken, but with something that doesn't
work or has the wrong position or scaling, can also be done for people that use
other language than English, or they have put the image upside-down or screens
are rotated.
I remember the first times that I plugged my laptop to my 4K monitor and my
desktop to my 4K TV and I had to go closer to the screens to be able to
actually read the items in the context menu to find the proper item as
everything was so small.
I think Wallpaper configuration and then the wallpaper slideshow thing that
adds that / those extra items are nat used so ofter and are not that important
to deserve the last place in the menu, which could be better used the the
problem solver and features enabled "Display configuration". But anyway, that's
just my opinion, feel free to continue to come with other argumens and ideas
and move the items as you wish.

One day though, this menu and the system tray needs an option to be able to
reorder the items as it's best for us.
Though, for the case of problems, a very good default is very important!
You can't customize that menu (at least easily) if the screen has bad position,
orientation, brightness, colors, etc.

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