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[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> 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!
>>>>> --
>>>>> Milian Wolff
>>>>> mail at milianw.de
>>>>> http://milianw.de
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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

It's been pushed already :).

All those who didn't try it because checking out a different branch is
too hard, they can now!

Aleix