Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Friday 07 November 2008 23:05:08 Stephen wrote: > I do not agree, black windows are very harsh on the eyes. Just like > with white windows it is hard to see and causes eye strain. > Something in the middle (a medium gray like we have now) is > perfect. > > There are not extremes, and it contasts

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Chani wrote: > i still have never seen these dividing areas you talk about :) it's > all one black on my monitor. yes, that's sort of my point. =) i also tested on my LCD television here and you can't see it either. =/ a little bit of hue will fix it for these situati

RE: dict plasma applet

2008-11-07 Thread Thomas Georgiou
Well, initially we used a qgraphicstextedit with html formatting to make it look nicer, but we could not have scrolling with that, so when 4.1 came along we switched to qwebview (to get scrolling support). Then we switched dictionaries to wordnet, and the parsing to html code has not been rewritten

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Chani
> namely that not having any distinction between the background and the > foreground makes it all background. > > if you can, imagine how much better it would look if there was some contrast > in hue such that each component can be clearly seen instead of one big > muddle. > > right now i'm s

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Friday 07 November 2008 22:53:24, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > On Friday 07 November 2008, Marco Martin wrote: > > it's still work in progress, the margins are slightly wrong, and will > > make normal and iconified ones maybe a bit more different but i think > > it's already a bit more happy :) > >

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Marco Martin wrote: > it's still work in progress, the margins are slightly wrong, and will make > normal and iconified ones maybe a bit more different but i think it's > already a bit more happy :) yes, this is a nice step in the right direction imho. it really doesn't

Re: KDE4 slow on thinclients (video)

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Martin Vogt wrote: > access("/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/devices/unknown.png", R_OK) = -1 > ENOENT (No such file or directory) > access("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/xterm.xpm", R_OK) = -1 > ENOENT (No such file or directory) > thousand more... that soun

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Chani
On 11/7/08, Jamboarder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Marco Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > On Friday 07 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: >> > > A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: >> > > >> > > This was just my o

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Stephen
On Friday 07 November 2008 11:36:58 am Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008 18:24:38 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > sigh ok, so if we change the colours of all the windows in kde4 to be > > black, we're all good? > > Theoretically yes... practically we can't do that because of the ba

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Jamboarder
> From: Marco Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Friday 07 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > > A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > > > > > This was just my opinon on the subject, what do you want? > > > > somethin

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > > > This was just my opinon on the subject, what do you want? > > something with sufficient contrast to make the tasks buttons mo

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Friday 07 November 2008 18:24:38 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > sigh ok, so if we change the colours of all the windows in kde4 to be > black, we're all good? I'm silly, I needed to reread the thread... yes, that's ANOTHER issue. ;-) -Riccardo -- GPG key: 3D0F6376 When encrypting, please encrypt als

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Friday 07 November 2008 18:24:38 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > sigh ok, so if we change the colours of all the windows in kde4 to be > black, we're all good? Theoretically yes... practically we can't do that because of the base color (the bg color of textedits, lineedits, etc...). If it was for no

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > > > This was just my opinon on the subject, what do you want? > > something with sufficient contrast to make the tasks buttons mo

Re: KDE4 slow on thinclients (video)

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Vogt
Hello, > The connection between the thinclients <-> SuSE 11b3 is Gigabit. (The > thinclients have gig-E). > The machine with the SuSE 11.1b3 is a Core 2 E8400 with 2GB RAM and a > NVidia PCi-e FX570. > (8800 chipset) > >> yes, X. the question is why, and i'd like to start with the driver before >>

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 07 November 2008, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008 11:22:48 Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > > > This was just my opinon on the subject, what do you want? what color? > > just chose one and I will do. > > Its you

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Stephen
On Friday 07 November 2008 9:50:03 am Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > > a light grey-blue? Aaron's gold color was a bit harsh, but a lemon might > > yes, as i noted in the first email, the colour used there sucked. i opened > it in inkscape and click

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > This was just my opinon on the subject, what do you want? something with sufficient contrast to make the tasks buttons more visible; something that is "warmer"; .. > what color? i

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > a light grey-blue? Aaron's gold color was a bit harsh, but a lemon might yes, as i noted in the first email, the colour used there sucked. i opened it in inkscape and clicked quickly to a light contrasting colour to see how it altered the vi

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Friday 07 November 2008 11:22:48 Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > This was just my opinon on the subject, what do you want? what color? > just chose one and I will do. > Its your call not mine so... Im not going into a war about this chose o

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Friday 07 November 2008 12:06:06 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > So what? Looking good in most situations is a beginning, now we only need > to go further and polish the last bits from there. And really, the only > problem is with maximised windows. Maximized windows seem pretty important to me. W

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > That's not another issue, that's *the* issue... *sigh* ok, so if we change the colours of all the windows in kde4 to be black, we're all good? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2E

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Friday 07 November 2008 17:09:47 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, you wrote: > > On Friday 07 November 2008 03:39:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > i also understand, and accept, that there will be people who love an > > > all-black approach. i hope that others can understand tha

[PATCH] Desktop Settings picture entries all the same: "Vector Sunset"

2008-11-07 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
Since the reviewboard seems to not work herecomes the patch. -- Alessandro Diaferia backgroundpackage.diff Description: Binary data ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

[REVIEW] Add labelSize() to Plasma::Meter

2008-11-07 Thread Rob Scheepmaker
This patch is also on reviewboard but anonsvn is down and therefor reviewboard doesn't work. While I was updating the kuiserver applet to use the new progress-bar design I suddenly had the need to obtain the size of a label in the progress-bar svg. JobWidget displays the filename elided ("file:

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > A Friday 07 November 2008 02:39:40, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > > black, however, can be sexy. when it's used as a highlight, as an > > > anchor or on a feature piece. but as the everything col

Re: AW: Re: KDE4 slow on thinclients (video)

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am not a developer, but this one surprises me. > The Geode NX is basically an Athlon (K7-Core) on 1GHZ. > So the Celeron nearly has three times more Mhz and double RAM, > Ok, Celerons are not the Kings of efficiency, but with a _that_ big > a

AW: Re: KDE4 slow on thinclients (video)

2008-11-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am not a developer, but this one surprises me. The Geode NX is basically an Athlon (K7-Core) on 1GHZ. So the Celeron nearly has three times more Mhz and double RAM, Ok, Celerons are not the Kings of efficiency, but with a _that_ big advantage in numbers, it should not feel slower than the Geode.

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: This was just my opinon on the subject, what do you want? what color? just chose one and I will do. Its your call not mine so... Im not going into a war about this chose one color and I will do my best. -- Oxygen coordinator ___

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Marco Martin wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > (and ok, the choice of colour in the panel there isn't great, but you get > > the idea) > > hmm, dunno, i feel that a light panel with just some black elements really > tends to scream hey look a

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Matthias Fuchs wrote: > Btw. the same goes for the active window (the glowing shadow). If there > is no composition enabled there still has to be a clear hint! a) please keep this thread focused b) there is a clear hint on non-composited windows in svn, so your point i

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 07 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > A Friday 07 November 2008 02:39:40, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > black, however, can be sexy. when it's used as a highlight, as an anchor > > or on a feature piece. but as the everything colour ... not really. there > > are specific situations wher

Re: KDE4 slow on thinclients (video)

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Vogt
Hello Aaron, >> Usually between a click and the response there are 3-4 seconds >> until something happens. > > this is exactly what we were seeing on certain systems with the binary NVidia > drivers and it went away as soon as they switched to the open source driver. > I can try to boot the thincl

Review Request: add labelSize function to Plasma::Meter

2008-11-07 Thread Rob Scheepmaker
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/261/ --- Review request for Plasma. Summary --- While I was updating the kuiser

Review Request: [PATCH] Desktop Settings picture entries all the same: "Vector Sunset"

2008-11-07 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/262/ --- Review request for Plasma and Aaron Seigo. Summary --- Dunno if you no

Re: plasma doesn't start automatically since 4.1.71

2008-11-07 Thread Nick Shaforostoff
update: plasma autostarts fine after I press ctrl+alt+bksp then login into kde4 explicitly ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

plasma doesn't start automatically since 4.1.71

2008-11-07 Thread Nick Shaforostoff
I updated kde from 4.1.69 to 4.1.71 from opensuse repositories (11.0) and plasma stopped loading automatically (just blank white or black screen), so i have to alt+f2, enter 'konsole' then enter 'plasma' the problem stayed after i updated to 4.1.72. I tried removing .kde4 but this didn't help. an

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Matthias Fuchs
Nuno Pinheiro schrieb: > A Friday 07 November 2008 00:22:24, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: >> hi all... >> >> it was mentioned on irc that the new taskbar styling made it difficult to >> see the active window. but when i looked at the svg, the different was >> pretty apparent ... it was just hard to see

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Friday 07 November 2008 02:39:40, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > On Thursday 06 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > A Friday 07 November 2008 00:22:24, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > > > http://plasma.kde.org/media/light_coloured_panel.png > > > > i will prefer just to make active more diferent and

Re: Review Request: sorting fix in tasks applet

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Martin
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/260/#review253 --- Ship it! seems sensible, yeah - Marco On 2008-11-06 14:53:37,

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Friday 07 November 2008 08:57:42, Riccardo Iaconelli escreveu: > On Friday 07 November 2008 03:39:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > i also understand, and accept, that there will be people who love an > > all-black approach. i hope that others can understand that our current > > default is not working

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi all... > > it was mentioned on irc that the new taskbar styling made it difficult to > see the active window. but when i looked at the svg, the different was > pretty apparent ... it was just hard to see o the black background of the > panel. >

Re: plasma, panels, colours

2008-11-07 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Friday 07 November 2008 03:39:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > i also understand, and accept, that there will be people who love an > all-black approach. i hope that others can understand that our current > default is not working out at the moment, if only because our downstreams > are rejecting it ou