We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, while hiding the config dialog for a while.
Vitor B. da Silva On 8/11/10, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, todd rme wrote: >> I would say the mandlebrot wallpaper also benefits from this, since >> you can see how the colors you select work in practice. Although it > > easy enough with an in-line preview, but in practice i don't find it a > necessity. the colours are fairly obvious and hitting "apply" shows me what > the real thing is going to end up looking like. > >> Similarly, the starfield wallpaper preview lets you see what effects >> its > settings have. but once again it may be a good candidate for >> putting the preview above or below the other settings. This would be > > yes. > >> The virus wallpaper is in the same boat as the starfield wallpaper >> > since users would also likely want to know how their settings affect >> its behavior, but having a live preview of it is not as feasible due >> to the layout, > > the virus previewer isn't particularly useful. it shows some viruses eating > a tiny paper. it doesn't do much in the way of showing the actual, real, > final effect. > >> and putting live previews in ever image int he >> background selector would > probably require too much in the way of >> resources. > > yes > >> As for making the configuration like the images one, I think that >> > would be good, but it would only be an adequate replacement for the >> preview if the images in the list of patterns automatically updated to >> reflect changes in the color settings. > > they don't do that now, and doing so requires rendering the full paper with > things such as scaling preferences. is the live preview really that > valuable? there is an apply button in the dialog, and i can usually imagine > what "black" or "blue" looks like; knowing the full effect usually requires > seeing it full screen anyways ime. > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > humru othro a kohnu se > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks > > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
