Opacity of resource boxes

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 01.03.2012 20:05, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Thursday 01 March 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> though I generally really admire Marco's design skills, there is one design
>> decision which I'm not totally happy about: The opacity of the resource
>> boxes. I don't think it's a bad idea in general to bring more opacity to
>> the UI, but the current high opacity of the resource boxes makes them a
>> bit too heavy for me. Especially when I have one or more rather big
>> resource boxes on an Activity, the whole screen is just dominated by grey.
>> Plus, the background image is barely visible anymore.
>> So I personally would prefer to have the resoruce boxes a lot more
>> transparent. Everything else can stay the way it is, but an activity screen
>> covered mostly by grey rectangles doesn't look all that nice to me.
>> So what do the others think about this?
>
> for me was a decision only in part rational, i've grown a bit tired of the
> look of air, and the subsequent problems of text readability and visual noise,
> i think that glass effects are a bit dated as visual concept.
> is kinda expected and mandatory, in some years we'll look at those ui
> transparencies like we look at those 80's haircuts ;)
>
> so i've tried this.
>
> it's a bit of a stay sober at all costs concept, in part to contrast the other
> current designs (iphone with hyper realism, wp7 with a thousand of random
> colors at once on the screen), in part because that i never found an issue in
> completely covering the wallpaper, but this again is personal, i know people
> can get quite emotionally attached to their wallpapers :p
>
> so yeah, if many people find issues in this (and yes, i know i tend to overdo
> things sometime), i can stated the experiment is failed for now and use the
> "translucent" variant that is still shipped in the theme for the resource
> boxes, their text has a thin white border so readability should resist a bit
> more. could look a bit out of tune tough.
>
> but i'll shut up and step back for now, i'm curious to see opinions on this :)

Just to bring this up again: What do the others think? We still need to 
harmonize Plasmoids and resource boxes, so we need a clear decision on this.