Opacity of resource boxes

[Fania Bremmer]

Am 28.03.2012 14:08, schrieb 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.
I thought Marco already experiment with the opacity of the boxes? We 
agreed here in the last sprint in Darmstadt, that we should definitly 
make the boxes less "grey rectangulish"... So from me a +1.
Only concern would be the readability of the labels. That needs to be 
tested.