Hi all, since i was getting the activity switcher and widget explorer at least a bit in shape in plasma2, i was experimenting with an idea we were toying a bit around at the last tokamak. Identifying all pieces of ui in the workspace that are completely modeal, like splash, lockscreen/user switching.. and give them all a consistent look and feel.
also identify things that are semi-modal, that are "workspacey" but don't take the whole attention. that they could be, add widgets, switch activity, alt+tab, krunner, maybe kickoff (something else?) one idea was to have a sidebar that takes the whole screen height but as less width as possible. for better being able to comment, i did some prototypes, already in plasma2: http://im9.eu/picture/tg1706 http://im9.eu/picture/jj1706 (contents of the sidebars quickly ported from plasma1, so they can/should be made way prettier that that) on KWin, i quickly hacked this as a new tabbox plugin (well, plus an hack for left alignment, that should probably go in the qml api, todo if/when porting to kwin5) http://im9.eu/picture/nv1706 The blur effect is also different to have more readability, absolutely needed if we continue to have big areas with a plasma background (looks less transparent but more phisically similar to frosted glass that is not only backlit but has some incident light as well) but that's for another thread ;) comments/ideas/opinions? Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
