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

[Peter Grasch]

> 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.
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> Anton Kreuzkamp wrote:
>     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.

Agreed on all points. Ship it!


- Peter


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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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