Visual design for logout/login/lockscreen

[Mark Gaiser]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Andrew Lake <jamboarder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After reading Aaron's nearly year old blog entry again this week
> (http://aseigo.blogspot.de/2013/05/visual-harmony-in-plasma-workspaces-2.html)
> , especially the following quote:
>
>> ...the log out dialog still has things that look like little push buttons
>> and it still has inexplicable
>> picture on the left, despite now being written in QML and having all the
>> power that implies.
>>
>> Plasma Workspaces 2 is our opportunity to improve these parts by
>> harmonizing and modernizing
>> them. The log out interface ought to look like it belongs with the lock
>> screen; the log in screen
>> ought to mesh with the splash screen...
>>
>>We have a couple people who can do this kind of work, but they have lots on
>> their plate already.
>>This is a great opportunity for someone with a flair for design to get
>> involved...
>
> I put a little effort into identifying a visual design that might get us a
> little bit closer. I apologize that I don't have any idea what work may have
> already been put into this area, so please don't take my ignorance as a
> dismissal of any work that has already occurred. I also shared this design
> with other members of the Visual Design Group and there were no objections
> to offering these designs here.
>
> Anyway here goes:
> Login: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/05/login_mockup.png
> Logout: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/03/logout_mockup.png
> Unlock: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/05/unlock_mockup.png
> Shutdown: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/03/shutdown_mockup2_1.png
>
> We're happy to provide any visual assets required, which shouldn't be much.
> (We already have a few to choose from). I won't speak to architecture since
> that's your wheelhouse, but my assumption is that the UI layer could be
> handled by the same QML package with enough hooks for the various existing
> underlying functionality to use. I would like to have offered up a QML
> package with this, but it's early days yet for my QML familiarity (but
> getting better fast). :-)
>
> Hope this is helpful and please let me know if there are any questions,
> Andrew Lake
> Community designer in the KDE Visual Design Group

That is a flat design i actually like :)

The 3 buttons on the right (logout, shutdown and restart) look a bit
weird though. Logout is fine, but shutdown and restart look too much
alike.