A Quarta, 3 de Outubro de 2012 16:41:18 Marco Martin escreveu: > On Wednesday 03 October 2012, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > Le mercredi 3 octobre 2012 14:27:47 Marco Martin a écrit : > > > On Wednesday 03 October 2012, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > > > > well, better that a rectangle :p > > > > > anyways, could do that only the monitor below has the stand, the one > > > > > above not (in the way they are positioned it would just look that > > > > > the > > > > > stand of the above monitor is hidden by the other one) > > > > > > > > One potential problem with the Plasma monitor is light glares are > > > > going > > > > to be all messed up if the screen is rotated, especially the one on > > > > the screen itself. Maybe something along the line of attached mockup > > > > would fit? (only, drawn by an artist) The led is a cue about the > > > > orientation of the screen (and you can use a dimmed one if the screen > > > > is disabled). > > > > > > the monitor shouldn't be rotated at all (no graphics is going to appear > > > correct or decent once rotated, really :p), just resized to the proper > > > size, that would be a rectangle taller than wide. > > > > You will get distorted glares nevertheless... this may look good enough > > though, but I believe an abstract-enough representation can look good > > rotated. > > there is a reflection in the middle of the screen that is a separate > element, so it may or may not be used (is a diagonal of the monitor > rectangle and pretty weak, i think it goes well at basically any ratio, but > can be just not painted) > > there is also a bit of effect in the screen border, that would stretch to > stay at half screen. > not sure is a bad thing. if it is, the monitor svg may be modified to either > not have reflection in the monitor border, or to stay with an unscaled > height. > > Over the years with plasma themes we basically already had and solved all > those problems, is really the same: doing a rounded rectangle thing that > looks good at any proportion, optional overlay/glass effects that may look > scaled, unscaled, tiled, scaled only for width, only for height... > > > > as your svg a svg element representing a power led may be added and > > > drawn > > > on the right position to give more hint on how the monitor is rotated. > > > > Isn't this likely to break with other themes? I am not sure there is a > > reliable way to get the correct offset in all cases. > > it would simply not be there, and that's not serious, shouldn't be an > element the ui has to rely on to make sense anyways. > since the borders have a fixed size, is easy to make the thing in a way that > looks correct if the thing is put in a corner > > > > a problem with that is that it may suggest that led is a button and may > > > be clicked somehow > > > > I didn't envision this led to be big enough to be mistaken for an > > interactive control, but if it is made big enough, maybe it can be used to > > replace the "enabled" checkbox? > > don't know, it may be the level in which it becomes too much skeu :p > > Cheers, > Marco Martin
Note to martin i should do a new monitor this weekend ;) you have been warned :=) > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
