T6854: Modernizing Kontact

[ianseeks]

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 18:17:51 BST Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> dvratil created this task.
> dvratil added projects: KDE PIM, VDG.
> 
> TASK DESCRIPTION
>   I'd like to discuss here, with the help from VDG how we could improve the
> Kontact UI to look more modern and slick.
> 
>   I started by looking at KMail because that's our main and most important
> component, I'll keep updating this as I get to other components.
> 
>   This is the current default look of KMail in Kontact:
>   F3873910: kmail-current.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F3873910>
> 
>   This is the look after some of my attempts for improvements:
> 
>   - monochromatic Breeze icons in the side pane without text
>   - no frames around the side pane and the folder view
>   - the folder view has the same background as the window to visually
> separate from the message list - the folder view does not have tree lines
>   - the top-level "Account" folder is bold, the first "email" subfolder is
> not indented, but is on the same level as the "Account" folder - saves us a
> little bit of horizontal space as we effectively reduced the indentation by
> one level. The "Account" folders are separated by horizontal line and large
> padding (visible on the second screenshot) - the message list theme is
> using palette colors
>   - the vertical color bar in message view off by default
> 
>   F3873914: kontact-modern.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F3873914>
>   F3873917: kontact-modern-2.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F3873917>
> 
>   I'd like to get some input from https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/vdg/: is
> this a step in the right direction? Do you have any comments, especially
> regarding the folder tree?
> 
> TASK DETAIL
>   https://phabricator.kde.org/T6854
> 
> To: dvratil
> Cc: #vdg, #kde_pim, dvratil, skadinna, dvasin, aaronhoneycutt, winterz,
> vkrause, mlaurent, mbohlender, knauss

Please keep in mind those of us whose eyesight is not what it was. Everything 
merging together makes it harder.

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