Display Configuration KCM design review
Marco Martin
notmart at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 12:50:01 UTC 2012
On Tuesday 02 October 2012, Dan Vrátil wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 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.
I thinks it already looks prettier than the old one ;)
> 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]?
in [2] those rotation icons look better (i don't think colored icons go so
well there)
> 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)?
i was about to ask what it was for ;)
maybe the primary should just have written "primary" in it
the others have a "make primary" below the monitor (not in it since doesn't
fit)
also, what does the green thick?
in general some remarks:
QWidget area below:
* It should use a Form layout: recognizable because has the labels aligned to
the right
* checkboxes should be aligned with the combobox
* (here a bit more controversial) instead of checkboxes with text, have text
on the left, then checkbox
Graphical area (is it in qml?):
* there should be as little stuff as possible in the monitors, would remove
the thickmark if not really necessary
* no underline below the resolution
* could them be a bit spaced? now they are touching and looks quite cramped
* green rounded rectanlgles doesn't look that good
We actually have a Plasma theme element to represent a monitor: it's the one
that is still used in the screensaver kcm: it's a framesvg, so it can be
resized to any size without looking deformed, would be nice to use that (not
sure about the monitor stand, can be tried both with or without.
we have a qwidget for it in the kworkspace lib or in qml would be trivial to
do.
Cheers,
Marco Martin
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