Display Configuration KCM design review

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le mercredi 3 octobre 2012 14:27:47 Marco Martin a écrit :
> On Wednesday 03 October 2012, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > > well, better that a rectangle :p
> > > anyways, could do that only the monitor below has the stand, the one
> > > above not (in the way they are positioned it would just look that the
> > > stand of the above monitor is hidden by the other one)
> > 
> > One potential problem with the Plasma monitor is light glares are going to
> > be all messed up if the screen is rotated, especially the one on the
> > screen itself. Maybe something along the line of attached mockup would
> > fit? (only, drawn by an artist) The led is a cue about the orientation of
> > the screen (and you can use a dimmed one if the screen is disabled).
> 
> the monitor shouldn't be rotated at all (no graphics is going to appear
> correct or decent once rotated, really :p), just resized to the proper size,
> that would be a rectangle taller than wide.

You will get distorted glares nevertheless... this may look good enough 
though, but I believe an abstract-enough representation can look good rotated.

> as your svg a svg element representing a power led may be added and drawn on
> the right position to give more hint on how the monitor is rotated.

Isn't this likely to break with other themes? I am not sure there is a 
reliable way to get the correct offset in all cases.

> a problem with that is that it may suggest that led is a button and may be
> clicked somehow

I didn't envision this led to be big enough to be mistaken for an interactive 
control, but if it is made big enough, maybe it can be used to replace the 
"enabled" checkbox?

Aurélien