On Monday, February 21, 2011 12:55:48 Markus Slopianka wrote: > Am Montag 21 Februar 2011, 07:24:33 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > > I don't want to remove the workaround, I only do not longer want to > > expose it in the UI. That's a big difference. And I really like Markus' > > idea with the None compositing backend. > > I took a few minutes of time to squeeze out a mockup: > http://kamikazow.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/kwin-mockup.png > > To my own surprise it reduces clutter to a greater degree than I thought it > would while also not losing any features. > > As a side note: In the "All effects" tab the categories are sorted > alphabetically. While in theory that sounds good, seeing "Tools" above > "Window Management" makes no sense. "Tools" is probably no used by anyone > besides a handful of people who develop KWin and benchmarking geeks. > > I'd also merge a few effect entries that are mutually exclusive: There are > at least two Minimize effects which could be merged into one entry with > "Normal" or "Genie" as radio buttons in the effect's config window. > Same for closing windows, magnification lens, etc.
I agree with Martin that the KWin KCMs could use a major redesign, shuffling options around is not enough and leads to confusion among users short-term, without tackling the real problem long term. For one, the pages widget and tab widgets bring a second navigational level (choose right page, then choose the right tab), which is really quite broken. That should be tackled, rather than shuffling options. Furthermore, this is not a UI design issue, don't make it one. (We can work on that later when there's consensus about the way forward.) Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
