https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379822
Bug ID: 379822
Summary: Multimedia icon confusing for new users
Product: systemsettings
Version: 5.9.5
Platform: unspecified
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: ber...@codewiz.org
Target Milestone: ---
Warning, UX bug. Feel free to close as WONTFIX if you disagree.
I recently observed a new KDE user browse through the main Systemsettings
window in search for the sound configuration KCM. This user missed the
Multimedia icon because:
1) "This icon looks like a monitor, but I wanted to configure sound so I was
looking for a speaker"
2) No mental association between Sound / Audio the abstract concept of
Multimedia
3) Multimedia appears way down in the window
Here are some (personal) ideas to give better cues to the user:
1) Split the Sound kcm and promote it to a top-level entry in the
systemsettings main window
2) Change the Multimedia icon to look more distinct from a display, possibly
including a speaker logo (either alone, or besides a film, a "play button" or a
clapperboard).
3) Rename Multimedia to "Sound and Video"
4) Move the Hardware group up, at least before Network and possibly also before
Personalization
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