preview in wallpaper dialog

[Vitor Boschi]

We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen,
while hiding the config dialog for a while.

Vitor B. da Silva

On 8/11/10, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, todd rme wrote:
>> I would say the mandlebrot wallpaper also benefits from this, since
>> you can see how the colors you select work in practice.  Although it
>
> easy enough with an in-line preview, but in practice i don't find it a
> necessity. the colours are fairly obvious and hitting "apply" shows me what
>  the real thing is going to end up looking like.
>
>> Similarly, the starfield wallpaper preview lets you see what effects
>> its
>  settings have.  but once again it may be a good candidate for
>> putting the preview above or below the other settings.  This would be
>
> yes.
>
>> The virus wallpaper is in the same boat as the starfield wallpaper
>>
>  since users would also likely want to know how their settings affect
>> its behavior, but having a live preview of it is not as feasible due
>> to the layout,
>
> the virus previewer isn't particularly useful. it shows some viruses eating
> a tiny paper. it doesn't do much in the way of showing the actual, real,
>  final effect.
>
>> and putting live previews in ever image int he
>> background selector would
>  probably require too much in the way of
>> resources.
>
> yes
>
>> As for making the configuration like the images one, I think that
>>
>  would be good, but it would only be an adequate replacement for the
>> preview if the images in the list of patterns automatically updated to
>> reflect changes in the color settings.
>
> they don't do that now, and doing so requires rendering the full paper with
> things such as scaling preferences. is the live preview really that
> valuable? there is an apply button in the dialog, and i can usually imagine
> what "black" or "blue" looks like; knowing the full effect usually requires
>  seeing it full screen anyways ime.
>
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