Review Request: Place the user avatar next to the user/computer info in Kickoff

[J Janz]

> On 2009-06-22 14:34:05, Aaron Seigo wrote:
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> > at one point i spent a lot of time lining up _all_ the items in kickoff so that there were as few vertical alignment points as possible and so that things always aligned properly.
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> > apparently in current svn the search icon is now bigger again and the "Search:" label doesn't line up. *sigh*
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> > in any case, your patch makes it even a bit worse, and the top header area is now a complete jumble.
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> > here's my suggestions:
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> > * put some spacing below the user icon so it's not so close to the content area
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> > * align the left of the user icon with left of the content area (it seems a bit shifted to the right right now?)
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> > * get rid of the icon next to search, it's not needed
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> > * put the Search: label inside the lineedit: setClickMessage(i18n("Search")); this will align the search with the user name (with the text below, too). this introduces a small complexity, however: for the click message to show, we can't give it focus. but we want the user to be able to just type away and search. there's an Launcher::eventFilter method in kickoff/ui/launcher.cpp that would need som tricks added to it to make this work properly (essentially, when the user starts typing and it isn't a navigation key like an arrow and a modifier key isn't pressed, set the text in the search box and give it focus)
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> > other comments are in-line to the patch.
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> Aaron Seigo wrote:
>     for clarification: i'd prefer the user icon to span both rows of text; it should vertically align either with the first icon in the tab view or with the icons in the listing (not sure which would look best without testing)

You read my mind (or my mail ;)

I proposed that to plasma-devel but it got held for approval 'cause I attached a mockup (where avatar is 64x64) that made the e-mail bigger than 40KB. =(

It's here: http://juniorjanz.net/files/avatar2.png

Quoting that e-mail, "in that proposal, we can achieve a bigger picture (actually, the double of current's size), which users might always prefer. ;)

I based it on Celeste's before patch image and haven't measured stuff in detail on it but the idea is the avatar spanning both rows, with user's name close to it and search a bit reduced and more far, having in the left the same margin width it has on the right (being visually separated from the avatar)."

Would that be it?

I have no idea of how to implement it though (far from familiar with kickoff) or I'd send a patch ... =\


- J


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On 2009-06-22 09:24:13, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-06-22 09:24:13)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> In the KDE kickoff menu, the avatar currently appears next to the menu search bar. It should be next to the username since the avatar and username are related information. See screenshot.
> (This is a seele-recommended fix, see https://launchpad.net/bugs/389744 )
> Here's the before picture: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28128348/avatar.png
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> The patch basically moves the search for the user icon to launcher.cpp, and places either the found user icon-- or the generic user-identity icon if none is found-- next to the user/computer info. The search icon has been made smaller so that the new layout uses just as much space as the old layout.
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/kickoff/ui/searchbar.cpp 978774 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/kickoff/ui/launcher.cpp 978774 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/870/diff
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> Testing
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> I have tested it. It's a fairly straightforward patch.
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> Screenshots
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> After
>   http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/870/s/134/
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> Thanks,
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> Jonathan
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