Display Configuration KCM design review

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, October 02, 2012 14:29:24 Dan Vrátil wrote:
> As some might notice [0], we are working with Alex Fiestas on new display 
> management for KDE. I'm now working on new KCM. Aaron suggested in comments 
> below the blog post that it would be nice to discuss design of the KCM with
> you, Plasma guys.
> 
> As d_ed and few others suggested, I have rewritten the bottom control pane
> to  use standard QWidgets rather then QML, so now it looks like this: [1].
> 
> Still, I really suck at UI design, so I would appreciate any input from you
> on  what can improve not just integration with the rest of Workspaces but
> also user experience.
> 
> There are two problems with icons I already know about, but I'm unsure of
> the  what the best step would be:
>         1) icons for rotation - should I make special "90 deg clockwise" and
> "90  deg counterclockwise" icons, as shown here [2]?
>         2) icon for primary output - some people did not understand that
> the  bookmark icon represents primary monitor. Is it OK or should I try to
> find something better (and what do you think would fit best)?
> 
> If you want to try it, you need my "fork" of Alex's libkscreen (contains 
> things I didn't send to Alex for review yet) from
> scratch/dvratil/libkscreen- clone.git and the KCM from
> scratch/dvratil/displayconfiguration.git
> 
> Note: the KCM can be already used to configure monitors, but does not yet 
> react to changes (i.e. it won't update when you unplug a monitor)

Could you post a screenshot using the default color scheme? I'm a bit confused 
how it would look like for "normal" users...
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sebas

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