Review Request: Make default presence variants not bold, use italic font to visually distinguish special presence variants.

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On June 25, 2012, 11:48 a.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > First of all thanks for a perfect review request! That's how they all should be done ;)
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> > As for the change - I'm not in favor. Truth is that the bold font looks bad, but the italics looks a bit worse for my eyes. I'd like to do two things here - Nikita, please add Usability group in the review groups. To all others - try brainstorming some ideas here how we can separate these (do we need it at all?).

As far as I can tell the custom presence messages still include a status such as "Away" or "Busy"?
So we could add a custom delegate to the combobox to have it in two-rows. A bigger icon on the left and the generic term as heading and if available a custom subtitle below it. Similar to e.g. Plasma does for the Wallpaper Plugin.
See here: http://privat.broulik.de/plasmacustomdelegate.png
I think in this example the bold font doesn’t look bad at all. It just looks out of place if the font size is the regular dialog font size.


- Kai Uwe


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On June 25, 2012, 7:10 a.m., Nikita Skovoroda wrote:
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> (Updated June 25, 2012, 7:10 a.m.)
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> Review request for Telepathy.
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> Description
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> The bold font looks bad, especially if there is no custom presences (then almost all variants are bold).
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> Changes done by the patch:
> 1) global-presence-chooser.cpp — make special presences italic.
> 2) presence-model.cpp — make presences without status message not bold.
> 3) presence-model.cpp — make presences with status message italic.
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> This replaces «normal» font with «italic», and «bold» with «normal» in the presence shooser.
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> Looks better to me.
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> Diffs
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>   global-presence-chooser.cpp 6729f51 
>   presence-model.cpp 72bfc3d 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/diff/
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> Testing
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> Does not break anything. The result is on the screenshots.
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> This does not break visual separation of different status groups, when there are a lot of custom presences (the bold entries separated them) — they can be easily distingushed thanks to the icons.
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> Screenshots
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> Before
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/s/608/
> After
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/s/609/
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> Thanks,
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> Nikita Skovoroda
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