KDevelop's welcome page

[Aleix Pol]

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
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