Welcome Page reloaded

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Wed Apr 25 00:25:05 UTC 2012


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Sven Brauch <svenbrauch at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I tested it a bit, and it looks very cool! A few things I noticed (I
>> will provide screenshots to make sure that we're talking about the
>> same thing):
>> In the main screen: http://i.imgur.com/oycoc.png
>> * I find the web view rather weird. It looks cool, certainly, but it
>> should either be resized to a usable size or any user interaction
>> should be disabled for it. Clicking around in it makes no sense as it
>> is, and shouldn't be possible.
> Yep, I agree, I was looking into disabling those events yesterday
> night. It seems not to offer those so I'll just add some thing to eat
> those. I'll try to push such changes today.
>
>> * If no session is currently opened, maybe the "Open session" thing
>> should open the session in the same instance of kdevelop? Not sure.
> Unsure too, in doubt I always try to use the simplest approach.
>
>>
>> In the bug screen: http://i.imgur.com/bMTYa.png
>> * I find the text hard to read. I'd suggest to change its color to white.
>> * The buttons at the top don't do anything for me, neither of the
>> three. The click animation triggers, but nothing happens.
> +1 for the text color, didn't try with oxygen. Probably it's using
> Text {} instead of Label {} -.-
>
> Regarding buttons, last time they worked for me, I'll look it up.
>
> Lots of thanks for taking your time Sven!
>
> Aleix
>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Am 24. April 2012 16:11 schrieb Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 24 April 2012 03:00:38 Aleix Pol wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> So we discussed about this page before, already. We agreed that it was
>>>>> a good idea and that the proposed thing could be useful but it didn't
>>>>> look nice. AFAIK, at least.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's my rework. I adopted Plasma Components and some theming
>>>>> extensions to put it together. Here there's a video of it:
>>>>> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdevelop-themed-welcomepage.ogv
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it's useful now and that it could be presented easily. It
>>>>> doesn't get in the way and it's better than just a gray area which was
>>>>> the beast to beat.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please tell me what do you guys think about it. If you want to test it
>>>>> it's in a "themed-welcomepage" branch, otherwise I'd suggest to merge
>>>>> it and work on it on master.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope you like it better.
>>>>
>>>> Nice, many thanks. I'll make sure to try it out over the week, and esp. try it
>>>> out with darker color schemes. But considering that you are now using the
>>>> components, I hope it "just works™".
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
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>>>
>>> In any color scheme it should stay the same. The background colors are
>>> hardcoded.
>>>
>>> Aleix
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All those issues are fixed now.

If nobody else comments, I'll merge this branch next thursday.

Aleix




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