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

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 28 February 2008 13:50:46 Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> 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.

No, Beineri has actually committed this change with some others, probably due 
to some misunderstanding of what we're talking about here.

> 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.

Good idea.
-- 
sebas

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