making kickoff have full-width selection rects (on hover)

[Celeste Lyn Paul]

On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:51:13 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:26:35 Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> > Also, does no one else care, have an option, have a preference, or think
> > this is an issue?  So far this has been a discussion between three
> > people, a developer, and artist, and a designer (that sounds like the
> > beginning of a bad bar joke).
>
> If I understand this long discussion well, a patch like this has been
> committed, at least in my yesterday's build, the selections in kickoff are
> full-width.
>
> I do like it this way, although the icon looks a bit crammed into it now.
> The items *feel* easier to hit for me, earlier I could selected an icon by
> hovering over whitespace next to it, so the selection feels disconnected
> from the position of the mouse.
>
> In the Applications tab, the arrows now have a clear connection to their
> respective items, which I think is good. One thing I would like to see is
> the arrows being centred horizontally, but that's a minor issue.

This looks like an upstream patch from Kubuntu? (or it is scarily similar to 
what theyve done).  The problem I see with this highlight is the background 
is on the wrong layer -- it covers the arrow and makes it a weird grey 
instead of being behind it.

On Thursday 28 February 2008 07:09:47 Marco Martin wrote:
> another idea: two selections, one very light like a light gray, maybe with
> a gradient (the background color slightly darker?) and only the text
> background actually colored, as shown in this quick and dirty mockup

This color grey is more neutral and the gradient is nice too, but i think it 
lacks some kindof "shiney".

I'm going to send links to these and previous conceptions of full-width 
selection to the artists team.  Maybe they can take our ideas and polish 
them.

~ C

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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project & HCI Working Group
usability.kde.org