getting images together for 1.0

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:52:32 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 August 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 15:07:06 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > * same default configuration: Sebasian now did put all the different
> > > default configuration compared to a stock kde in the git server, in
> > > plasma- mobile/config: this should be used by both systems i thnk
> > 
> > i've added some more things to this config as well (and scratched them off
> > the tasks wiki page). amazing how much difference these little things
> > make! :)
> > 
> > what we also lack at the moment is a clear art direction.
> 
> the modifications i did in the plasma theme are in general on the direction
> of being less shiny, less glossy, more "natural world" than the desktop air
> theme, while keeping the general style (mostly because i really had no time
> to do a theme from scratch, is like 10x times the work ;) and a kind of
> continuity in general is nice

indeed; we may wish to over time harmonize both the desktop and the tablet 
theme a bit more. but that's certainly not something we need to do right away. 
they already have enough continuity that they look like they belong together 
and yet look great in their respective contexts.

> > we have a QML splash screen to replace ksplashx with; it's obviously a bit
> > heavier due to how tiny ksplashx is and how not tiny QML is ;) but it
> > gives
> > us a hell of a lot more possibilities.
> > 
> > we would really be well served by a high quality splash animation that
> > gives people the "wow" feeling we want them to have.
> 
> i think it's more a matter of high quality graphics, startup/memory
> consumption is quite a problem already, probably the current ksplashx with
> really good (an unobtrusive, as opposed to the current wallpaper) graphics
> would have a good effect already.

if our target is tablets like the ExoPC and that is what we are showing it and 
using it on, is this _really_ an issue? if we're trying to fit everything into 
an ARM tablet with 128MB of RAM, ok, we may wish to profile things .. but we 
haven't done that for _any_ of the existing code. i'm not sure it's wise to 
start skimping on the splash screen and worying about a couple extra MB of 
temporary usage there if it can give us something much more impressive 
visually.

> keyword should be simple simple simple

+1

> > other needs include:
> > 
> > * a wallpaper set that communicates Plasma Active as an object of desire;
> > we can sift through the wallpapers we currently have and pick from those
> > and/or we can go looking for new papers that fit a (so far undefine)
> > thematic goal
> 
> i liked the organic/not shiny(opposed to current mobile devices) we talked
> about at tokamak

+1

i was looking through our existing wallpapers and there are some very nice 
panaromic scenery papers that look just stunning on the tablet. the Morocco 
paper i was using also consistently got "wows" ... i just wish it was freely 
redistributable...

> > * lock screen that matches the splash screen
> 
> * a working lock screen in the first place :p
> btw, do you think a wallpaper in the lock screen is better than a solid
> color? so same splash screen/lock screen..

continuity between splash and lock is probably more important than whether or 
not there is a wallpaper :) whatever we do in one should get tied into the 
other. so if we use a wallpaper in the splash, we should use the same in the 
lock screen.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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