On Monday 04 November 2013 16:40:09 Marco Martin wrote: > 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? Imho this is the kind of thing that requires further investigation, deploy it on real users computers and see how they feel about it etc.
Personally I have been playing with vertical panels with content for a long time and I have mixed feelings. As an example the vertical plasmoid picker doesn't feel good to me while the notification centre in osx feels good. I also played with the KTp contact list and with a shortcut it worked quite well (and felt nice). With smaller panels such one with app's (icons only) or the ktp plasmoids I haven't had that feeling. Cheers. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
