On Monday 12 July 2010 11:53:20 Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote: > > > unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough > > > to make people not wanting to use those > > > > Maybe it should be easily discoverable what Activities actually are. > > > > Maybe I'm uninformed, but I see them as virtual desktops with individual > > Plasmoid setups. > > Plasma in SC 4.4 had a quirky GUI for selecting activities, but at least > > showed thumbnails of them. In 4.5 thumbnails were replaced with random > > patterns and I still don't see the benefit of pattern over thumbnails. > > _______________________________________________ > > Plasma-devel mailing list > > Plasma-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > the zui imo was fine as a concept, unfortunately technically qgraphicsview > couldn't really handle it very well. > > we did hope performance issues could have been fixed in Qt, but this didn't > happen, moreover there were some issues given from the fact of simply > zooming out the scene showing how activities were actually laid out. > > we can also try one of the two following things: > 1) on new activities assign a random wallaper and use the thumbnail of the > wallpaper as default activity icon > 2) still try to to do a real thumbnail of the activity, this could be quite > inefficient and in the current ui would be so scaled down it won't be > recognizable (but i like having the list as a little unobtrusive bar) > > i guess to actually see if one of those could work, we should actually try > one of those approaches, probably the wallpaper thumbnail would be what > takes less effort as quick throw away code > > Cheers, > Marco Martin
me realy does not care much as long as we have something that looks pretty and is easy to recognize by the user, i proposed to do those icons because wen I saw how our Chani chose random icons to represent them, i had my typical "your icons look soo ugly used like that" feeling... so I proposed , what if i do a batch of consistent icons that a user can choose form that don't look terribly wrong together? thumbnails can work just as well its a mater of theming them a bit.... but we will need to prompt the user to chose a wallpaper and chances are that he will chose the one he likes best and that is probably not different from the one he is using now in other activities. _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel -- oxygen guy, "I make the pretty pictures" _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
