KDevelop's welcome page

[Sven Brauch]

I'd add it now, as you say, it's better than the grey screen.

2011/12/2 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Michael Andersson
>> <mike.andersson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A few points:
>>>
>>> * Round edges is contemporary and definitely can be professional. In
>>> fact, sharp edges have a '90:s air to them and should be avoided unless
>>> they're designed very well.
>>>
>>> * I am one of the significant minority that gets headaches from bright
>>> backdrops. All my UI:s are set to dark colours. Your mock-ups presuppose
>>> white backdrops, which not only looks bad for us with dark colour schemes
>>> but also is actually painful. I would recommend that the colours
>>> auto-adjust, or that you prepare a dark scheme too.
>>>
>>> The basic design is nice though!
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> On 16 November 2011 20:41, Sven Brauch <svenbrauch at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looks cool! Are you sure about the round corners? Maybe it'd look more
>>>> professional with sharp ones, no? :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> 2011/11/16 Ruan Strydom <rm3dom at gmail.com>:
>>>> > Just an idea
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.jcell.co.za/welcome.png
>>>> >
>>>> > Cheers
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 02:29:30 AM Aleix Pol wrote:
>>>> >> Hi!
>>>> >> So I wanted to give a push to the welcome page these days, here there
>>>> >> are
>>>> >> some results. I think it's more or less ready to be merged to master,
>>>> >> but
>>>> >> probably you'll want to change some things ( ;) ) so that's why I'm
>>>> >> sending
>>>> >> this mail here.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> It's on the welcomepage branch, if you want to you can try it now. It
>>>> >> should just work. If it doesn't: poke me :).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> For those lazier I've prepared some screenshots so that you can have
>>>> >> an
>>>> >> idea of what it looks like:
>>>> >> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png
>>>> >>
>>>> >> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage-learn.png<http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage1.png<http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage2.png<http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Furthermore, I know I'm no good designer. If someone wants to help
>>>> >> with the
>>>> >> looks, I'll be deeply thankful :).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Cheers!
>>>> >> Aleix
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>
>>
>> To be fair, I don't really mind if they are rounded or square :)
>>
>> Do you think you could adapt the mockup pixmaps to the QML BorderImage [1]
>> element?
>>
>> This way we can start using them...
>>
>> Aleix
>>
>>
>> [1] http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/qml-borderimage.html?tab=1
>
>
> Well, we can't leave this thread like this.
>
> If somebody thinks it is too ugly, please provide an idea (something further
> than just a mock up image). Otherwise I'll merge to master and there we can
> play with it. In any case I don't think it's worse than a gray screen...
>
> It would be good to use the KDE QML Components, but I don't think it's an
> option for KDev 4.3 since we would depend on KDE 4.8, but theming will be
> easier and more integrated once it's done.
>
> If you guys still think it's too bad for us, then let's just start the kdev
> 4.3 process and plan a soon-ish 4.4.
>
> Thoughts?
> Aleix
>
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