Display Configuration KCM design review

[Dan Vrátil]

On Tuesday 02 of October 2012 14:48:25 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> 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...

Sure, sorry.

http://i.imgur.com/1GnRV.png

It does not look exactly like I expected (I'm so used to my theme it did not 
occur to me to try the default one), the background should not be white, but 
rather...darker gray, possibly the same like in krandr KCM now.

Dan

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