widget style

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 10:46:19 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 25 October 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 22:22:21 Marco Martin wrote:
> > http://wstaw.org/m/2011/10/18/airmobile.png
> 
> i try not to get involved in air-chair pixel-direction, so i'll just offer
> a reminder of a few target principles:
> 
> * the different plasma form factors (desktop, netbook, tablet, ...) should
> look like they belong together. the more different these elements are
> between devices, the more that effect is eroded. so, e.g., if we have more
> rectangular buttons on the desktop, let's track that direction on the
> tablet

yep.

> * less is more. the heavier the chrome is, the harder it will be for
> content to shine through. buttons and inputs that are visually lighter and
> have fewer distinct elements should make for a calmer result.
> 
> keep up the great work moving this forward :)

btw in plasma-mobile i have now a branch mart/theme2 with experiments on it.
if someone wants to try it please do ;)
(since a theme is not built one can even just extract it and drop it on a 
running tablet without building anything, so no excuses :p)

-- 
Marco Martin


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