On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Andrew Lake <jamboar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > After reading Aaron's nearly year old blog entry again this week ( > http://aseigo.blogspot.de/2013/05/visual-harmony-in-plasma-workspaces-2.html) > , especially the following quote: > > > ...the log out dialog still has things that look like little push > buttons and it still has inexplicable > > picture on the left, despite now being written in QML and having all the > power that implies. > > > > Plasma Workspaces 2 is our opportunity to improve these parts by > harmonizing and modernizing > > them. The log out interface ought to look like it belongs with the lock > screen; the log in screen > > ought to mesh with the splash screen... > > > >We have a couple people who can do this kind of work, but they have lots > on their plate already. > >This is a great opportunity for someone with a flair for design to get > involved... > > I put a little effort into identifying a visual design that might get us a > little bit closer. I apologize that I don't have any idea what work may > have already been put into this area, so please don't take my ignorance as > a dismissal of any work that has already occurred. I also shared this > design with other members of the Visual Design Group and there were no > objections to offering these designs here. > > Anyway here goes: > Login: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/05/login_mockup.png > Logout: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/03/logout_mockup.png > Unlock: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/05/unlock_mockup.png > Shutdown: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/03/shutdown_mockup2_1.png > > We're happy to provide any visual assets required, which shouldn't be > much. (We already have a few to choose from). I won't speak to architecture > since that's your wheelhouse, but my assumption is that the UI layer could > be handled by the same QML package with enough hooks for the various > existing underlying functionality to use. I would like to have offered up a > QML package with this, but it's early days yet for my QML familiarity (but > getting better fast). :-) > > Hope this is helpful and please let me know if there are any questions, > Andrew Lake > Community designer in the KDE Visual Design Group > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > Hi, I've been trying to sort these out during this week, together with David. I've pushed a new Lock and Logout implementations following these mockups. They don't look like that yet but it's quite close and workable. The main issue being that we cannot hardcode a plasma theme from them, or maybe it's not an issue. Well, either way it would be interesting if somebody could take a look and see what it feels like, then maybe we can iterate it forward. Cheers! Aleix
_______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
