Hey all, After hiding under the rock and hacking on networkmanager, I'd like to give a bit of a status update on the plasmoid, and move towards getting better artwork in.
On Friday 06 November 2009 23:48:07 Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > On Friday, 6 de November de 2009 19:20:54 Andreas Demmer wrote: > > Nuno Pinheiro: > > > if i was doing it exclusively for air it would be something like this, > > > with more contrast maybe.... > > > > > > Attached is a side-by-side comparison with an improved version with > > better contrast. If you like this, I will do the other states to. Thanks > > to your SVG template it was very easy to do! :-) > > > > Greets, > > Andreas > > > > excelent I really like them, too. Can I have them in SVN, in all sizes? :) http://vizzzion.org/tmp/nm-plasmoid-alpha-2.ogv In the video, you can see the networkmanager plasmoid (not knetworkmanager!) sitting in the panel's systray area. the popup shows networkinterfaces on the left, checkboxes for dis/enabling networking altogether and dis/enabling wireless. On the right, you have two tabs, the Connections tab shows the available connections: when the wireless network is plugged in (it's not in the video), it'll show an available connection and connect automatically. You can click on those connections, and it will pop up connection dialogs as needed. The plasmoid has become a rather thin UI for the whole networkmanager stack now. As you can see, I've changed a couple of things according to the results in this discussion. Indeed no overlay for connected, as you can see. I've not done the VPN overlay yet, but am planning to. (Which icon should be used for this?) = connecting ... = For the "connecting" state, I wanted to show the progress somehow. I experimented a bit with a progress bar, and now have a ring that completes itself while the interface is connecting. The different steps have distinct states, a bit like a clock, so you can tell "when it's at 0900, it's waiting for a dhcp lease. After the connection succeeds, the ring becomes green and fades out after a couple of seconds. = painting = I've also changed the applet so that it will only use sizes predefined by KIconLoader (so we don't randomly scale, but can get pristine, pixel-perfect painting of the icon pixmaps -- as long as all sizes are there). I've ditched the SVG in favor of using KIcon, so we're not bound by Qt's lacking of SVG filters. = layout problem = the wireless networks list on the right hand side of the popupapplet actually sits inside a scrollwidget. I can't get the scrollbars to show, though, the layout just overflows. It would be nice if someone could have a look at this, I've been staring at it repeatedly and just can't see what I'm doing wrong there. You can see the problem in the screencast when a longer list of wireless networks overflows into the manage connections IconWidget. It's basically TabWidget holds two ActivatableListWidgets which are ScrollWidgets. I've updated the networkmanagement/applet/README.txt with a couple of TODO items, if you want to help out. In general, I feel that most things are falling into place now, it's developing nicely and that the UI concept works quite well as it's now. P.S.: if you wonder what the crappy LSD-style blending in the changing labels is, that's the radeon graphics driver :/ Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9
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