KPropertiesDialog. Useful graph ?

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:30 AM, John Tapsell wrote:
> 2008/4/23 Rafael Fernández López <ereslibre at kde.org>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  Some time ago, I wrote a simple class for drawing simple pie  
>> charts. I was
>>  quickly helped out by somebody that wanted to improve it with  
>> painter paths.
>>  After his patches, I worked on it for fixing small problems, and  
>> almost
>>  finishing it.
>>
>>  Now, I added it experimentally to KPropertiesDialog, and I was  
>> wondering what
>>  you think of that.
>>
>>  Before entering on any patch details (for that reason I am not  
>> posting it for
>>  now). Do you think this would be good to have ?
>>
>>  http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/04/kpropertiesdialog.png
>>  http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/04/kpropertiesdialog2.png
>>
>>  Thanks in advance.
>
> In general, 3D pie charts are considered evil.  There's a discussion
> on pie charts at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Discussion_on_use
> And 3D pie charts are considered much worse :)
>
> Having said that, I like what you've done visually.  Maybe make it
> thinner, and tone down the thickness of the lines?  The kchart logo is
> a beautiful 3D pie chart:     (
> http://kexi-project.org/pics/2.0/alpha4/kchart_kpresenter/ 
> kchart_about_win.png
> )
>
> JohnFlux


At the minimum pick different colors.  Many people can't see the  
difference between red and green.

-Benjamin Meyer