Display Configuration KCM design review

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Quarta, 3 de Outubro de 2012 16:41:18 Marco Martin escreveu:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2012, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> there is a reflection in the middle of the screen that is a separate
> element, so it may or may not be used (is a diagonal of the monitor
> rectangle and pretty weak, i think it goes well at basically any ratio, but
> can be just not painted)
> 
> there is also a bit of effect in the screen border, that would stretch to
> stay at half screen.
> not sure is a bad thing. if it is, the monitor svg may be modified to either
> not have reflection in the monitor border, or to stay with an unscaled
> height.
> 
> Over the years with plasma themes we basically already had and solved all
> those problems, is really the same: doing a rounded rectangle thing that
> looks good at any proportion, optional overlay/glass effects that may look
> scaled, unscaled, tiled, scaled only for width, only for height...
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> it would simply not be there, and that's not serious, shouldn't be an
> element the ui has to rely on to make sense anyways.
> since the borders have a fixed size, is easy to make the thing in a way that
> looks correct if the thing is put in a corner
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> don't know, it may be the level in which it becomes too much skeu :p
> 
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin

Note to martin i should do a new monitor this weekend ;) 
you have been warned :=)

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