Review Request: Improve contact list group header

[Martin Klapetek]

> On Nov. 20, 2012, 1:12 p.m., Heiko Tietze wrote:
> > I dislike the idea to apply grouping by an icon or symbol, because the items couldn't be easily considered as in- or out-group. If you run a picture search for "accordion widget" you will find most widgets with +/- solutions (as Björn Balazs recommends), some with triangle up/down and a few with down/left (pinned at left side). I guess the right side is preserved for properties and therefore seldom used for such "high frequency functions".
> > Normal treeview have indents, as Lasath Fernando recommends. Addionally you may add space, bevel, splitter or the like between groups (was it the "tiny line"?). And last but not least group headers should be designed different to normal entries beacause they haven't same functionality.

"I dislike the idea to apply grouping by an icon or symbol, because the items couldn't be easily considered as in- or out-group. If you run a picture search for "accordion widget" you will find most widgets with +/- solutions (as Björn Balazs recommends), some with triangle up/down and a few with down/left (pinned at left side)."

We had the triangle thingy before, I just moved it to the right. I'll try swapping it with the group icon back then.

"Normal treeview have indents, as Lasath Fernando recommends."

We don't have any indent right now and it works and to be honest, I don't want to add the indent now as they are used as an visual aid in otherwise homogeneous (multilevel) lists (like folders tree in Dolphin). If we will always have only one level deep items and IF the parent items are distinctive enough, I believe the indents are unnecessary.

"Addionally you may add space, bevel, splitter or the like between groups (was it the "tiny line"?). And last but not least group headers should be designed different to normal entries beacause they haven't same functionality."

They do have different design (which itself is the splitter), albeit it does look closer to the contact entries. I think it's still distinctive enough, but I'll play around a bit more.


- Martin


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On Nov. 20, 2012, 10:40 a.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 20, 2012, 10:40 a.m.)
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> Review request for Telepathy and KDE Usability.
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> Description
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> I made several improvements to the group header in contact list:
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>  1) Moved the expand sign to the right
>  2) Removed the tiny line
>  3) Made the account/group icon slightly bigger (has the same size as the avatar in normal mode; might need adjusting)
>  4) Aligned both the icon and the font with the contacts
>  5) Used background color from palette disabled:highlight and lighter by factor of 10
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> This is more a visual review request than a code, I tried with several default KDE color schemes and I think it looks good in all of them, see the screenshot below. Let me know what you think (and if possible try using the patch for a while yourself and see how it fits).
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> Diffs
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>   abstract-contact-delegate.cpp f5f2a05 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106763/diff/
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> Testing
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> Screenshots
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> New group header
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106763/s/757/
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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