[Kde-accessibility] Review Request: Make the new welcome-page a bit prettier

[Anton Kreuzkamp]

> On May 5, 2012, 7:39 p.m., Peter Grasch wrote:
> > Hi Anton, this is awesome! Thanks for taking the time!
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> > First I thought that using KIconLoader::iconPath() to use the users own icon would be even better in my mind but I couldn't find a way to replicate the nice off-center / half transparency effect with CSS. So unless you know / find something I'm missing, let's keep the custom pixmaps.
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> > Other than that, the implementation looks fine to me. Only request: Could you maybe use view-pim-news for the acoustic model section? It's what we usually use as an icon for speech models. Thanks.

Manipulating the images via css to be able to use any pixmap as background-image would be technically possible by putting an empty widget with the background-image below the groupbox and give it an opacity of 0.5, but thats imo a huge overload compared to the benefit (besides I've never tested it and thus don't know whether it would really work). So I think the custom pixmaps are the best solution.


- Anton


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On May 5, 2012, 9:35 p.m., Anton Kreuzkamp wrote:
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> (Updated May 5, 2012, 9:35 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Accessibility and Peter Grasch.
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> Description
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> Instead of commenting on Peter's blog with a mockup that would be equally difficult to do like this, I decided to answer with a patch :)
> This patch doesn't change anything in the functionality or the interface itself, but it puts icons for each of the 4 categories on the welcome-screen in the background of each (equal to what amarok does and kdevelop will do in it's new welcome-screen).
> This helps a bit to seperate the categories better, but more importantly it simply (partially) fetches back the wow-factor the old welcome screen had.
> I'm not quite sure, whether these are the best icons for the categories, I'm open to better suggestions.
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> Diffs
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>   simon/icons/CMakeLists.txt 106884f 
>   simon/icons/bg-acoustic-model.png PRE-CREATION 
>   simon/icons/bg-recognition.png PRE-CREATION 
>   simon/icons/bg-scenarios.png PRE-CREATION 
>   simon/icons/bg-training.png PRE-CREATION 
>   simon/src/welcomepage.cpp c761709 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104868/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested with different widget- and color-themes and I think it looks pretty nice with all of them.
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> Screenshots
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> Simon Welcomepage with icons in the background (updated)
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104868/s/560/
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> Thanks,
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> Anton Kreuzkamp
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