[Panel-devel] [PATCH] kickoff

Robert Knight robertknight at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 15:04:51 CEST 2007


Hi Aaron,

I'll try to discuss visual/conceptual changes separately from the code
itself.  In response to the comments in your first email:

> i've noticed that the top margins are different from page to page, and the top
> margin on the first header item in each page seems a bit excessive? patch
> attached for that.

Sounds good, thanks.

> the headers should also be biased slightly "down" so they are closer to the
> contents below than the contents above to provide visual grouping.

Yes, that makes sense.

> what do you think about moving System Settings into Places?

It isn't a place as such, but a tool.  In the KDE 3 version, System
Settings (or the distribution's own equivalent) is listed under an
"Applications" category.

> and how about on the Favorites page adding a header item, e.g. "Favorites"?
> patch attached for that as well...

I think that would be redundant.  The headers are only needed to
separate groups of items on the same page.

> i figure we can either add a header to the first list on the Applications tab
> and make those headers look like the rest of the headers

I'm treating the order of the tabs as fixed at the moment.  I can see
that they have been rearranged between OpenSuSE 10.2 to OpenSuSE 10.3
based on feedback, so I'm using the same tab layout as in OpenSuSE
10.3.

When you say "visually inconsistent," could you expand on that?  I
think that adding a header would be redundant, but we could try to
align the items from tab to tab.

> i do wonder about the general order of the tabs ... i almost would expect
> favorites and recently used to be next to each other

Favorites and Recently Used were next to each other in the original
version of Kickoff, but the current tab layout mirrors OpenSuSE 10.3,
I presume the changes were made following user feedback.  You'd have
to ask the Stephan and co. for more information.

> DnD from the app list to the favourites or recently used tabs would also be
> tres cool. something for 4.1 maybe =)

I think that DnD is quite an important part of the design, so I'd like
to have it done for 4.0.

Regards,
Robert.

On 11/10/2007, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > Robert: what do you think of the patches and above comments?
>
> another patch, this time for FlipScrollView which makes the header painting
> a
> lot more like the rest of the items.
>
> an update to the item hover painting as well. i really don't like the
> highlight color backgrounds (it's too much color imho; and the rectangles
> were both too large (abutts the next/previous items) and pretty old skool
> with those hard corners). so i went for something more visually "elegant":
> bold titles, subtext becomes un-greyed ... it's really nice now imho.
>
> i played with some other effects (changing icon sizes, etc) but rejected
> various other ideas i tried out.
>
> i'm getting pretty happy with the way it looks and works now...
>
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