Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

[nuno pinheiro]

On Monday 12 July 2010 11:53:20 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough
> > > to make people not wanting to use those
> > 
> > Maybe it should be easily discoverable what Activities actually are.
> > 
> > Maybe I'm uninformed, but I see them as virtual desktops with individual
> > Plasmoid setups.
> > Plasma in SC 4.4 had a quirky GUI for selecting activities, but at least
> > showed thumbnails of them. In 4.5 thumbnails were replaced with random
> > patterns and I still don't see the benefit of pattern over thumbnails.
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> the zui imo was fine as a concept, unfortunately technically qgraphicsview
> couldn't really handle it very well.
> 
> we did hope performance issues could have been fixed in Qt, but this didn't
> happen, moreover there were some issues given from the fact of simply
> zooming out the scene showing how activities were actually laid out.
> 
> we can also try one of the two following things:
> 1) on new activities assign a random wallaper and use the thumbnail of the
> wallpaper as default activity icon
> 2) still try to to do a real thumbnail of the activity, this could be quite
> inefficient and in the current ui would be so scaled down it won't be
> recognizable (but i like having the list as a little unobtrusive bar)
> 
> i guess to actually see if one of those could work, we should actually try
> one of those approaches, probably the wallpaper thumbnail would be what
> takes less effort as quick throw away code
> 
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin

me realy does not care much as long as we have something that looks pretty and 
is easy to recognize by the user, i proposed to do those icons because wen I 
saw how our Chani chose random icons to represent them, i had my typical "your 
icons look soo ugly used like that" feeling...  so I proposed 
, what if i do a batch of consistent icons that a user can choose form that 
don't look terribly wrong together? thumbnails can work just as well its a 
mater of theming them a bit.... but we will need to prompt the user to chose a 
wallpaper and chances are that he will chose the one he likes best and that is 
probably not different from the one he is using now in other activities.
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