KDevelop's welcome page

[Milian Wolff]

On Friday 02 December 2011 17:33:35 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Michael Andersson <
> > 
> > mike.andersson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> A few points:
> >> 
> >> * Round edges is contemporary and definitely can be professional. In
> >> fact, sharp edges have a '90:s air to them and should be avoided unless
> >> they're designed very well.
> >> 
> >> * I am one of the significant minority that gets headaches from bright
> >> backdrops. All my UI:s are set to dark colours. Your mock-ups presuppose
> >> white backdrops, which not only looks bad for us with dark colour schemes
> >> but also is actually painful. I would recommend that the colours
> >> auto-adjust, or that you prepare a dark scheme too.
> >> 
> >> The basic design is nice though!
> >> 
> >> Michael
> >> 
> >> On 16 November 2011 20:41, Sven Brauch <svenbrauch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> Looks cool! Are you sure about the round corners? Maybe it'd look more
> >>> professional with sharp ones, no? :)
> >>> 
> >>> Cheers
> >>> 
> >>> 2011/11/16 Ruan Strydom <rm3dom at gmail.com>:
> >>> > Just an idea
> >>> > 
> >>> > http://www.jcell.co.za/welcome.png
> >>> > 
> >>> > Cheers
> >>> > 
> >>> > On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 02:29:30 AM Aleix Pol wrote:
> >>> >> Hi!
> >>> >> So I wanted to give a push to the welcome page these days, here there
> >>> 
> >>> are
> >>> 
> >>> >> some results. I think it's more or less ready to be merged to master,
> >>> 
> >>> but
> >>> 
> >>> >> probably you'll want to change some things ( ;) ) so that's why I'm
> >>> 
> >>> sending
> >>> 
> >>> >> this mail here.
> >>> >> 
> >>> >> It's on the welcomepage branch, if you want to you can try it now. It
> >>> >> should just work. If it doesn't: poke me :).
> >>> >> 
> >>> >> For those lazier I've prepared some screenshots so that you can have
> >>> 
> >>> an
> >>> 
> >>> >> idea of what it looks like:
> >>> >> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png
> >>> >> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage-learn.png<
> >>> 
> >>> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
> >>> 
> >>> >> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage1.png<
> >>> 
> >>> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
> >>> 
> >>> >> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage2.png<
> >>> 
> >>> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
> >>> 
> >>> >> Furthermore, I know I'm no good designer. If someone wants to help
> >>> 
> >>> with the
> >>> 
> >>> >> looks, I'll be deeply thankful :).
> >>> >> 
> >>> >> Cheers!
> >>> >> Aleix
> >>> > 
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> > 
> > To be fair, I don't really mind if they are rounded or square :)
> > 
> > Do you think you could adapt the mockup pixmaps to the QML BorderImage [1]
> > element?
> > 
> > This way we can start using them...
> > 
> > Aleix
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/qml-borderimage.html?
> > tab=1
> Well, we can't leave this thread like this.
> 
> If somebody thinks it is too ugly, please provide an idea (something
> further than just a mock up image). Otherwise I'll merge to master and
> there we can play with it. In any case I don't think it's worse than a gray
> screen...

true, but can you theme it such that it follows the svg mockups? Can't the svg 
be used directly - that would be really nice.

> It would be good to use the KDE QML Components, but I don't think it's an
> option for KDev 4.3 since we would depend on KDE 4.8, but theming will be
> easier and more integrated once it's done.

yes, definitely something for the future.

> If you guys still think it's too bad for us, then let's just start the kdev
> 4.3 process and plan a soon-ish 4.4.

yes, 4.3 real soon :) I just moved this weekend and hopefully have more time 
again now.

bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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