Letting users customize the default background on PMC homescreen (Was: Re: Ideas Critical to PMC)

[Harshit Agarwal]

Apologies. I wasn't aware of the thread hacking act.
My rationale behind changing the background is to enable the user to
customize the Media Center to his/her own will. If they see something which
is customized as their own, they would automatically spend more time on it,
thus using and depending upon it's features more.
A better alternative for achieving the same goal is most welcome!

Regards,
Harshit Agarwal.
3rd Year,
Computer Science and Engineering,
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur.
Ph. No.: +91-8942031165


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shantanu at kde.org>wrote:

> Hi Harshit,
>
> First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, it is
> a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly related
> (this is popularly known as hacking others' threads :P)
>
> To the topic, I personally don't think it is a good idea to let the user
> change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this is
> that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visual
> inconsistency.
>
> I'll love to hear from others' views on this, especially our Usability
> folks.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Harshit Agarwal <see.harshit at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This is not exactly a critical idea, but I would like the opinion of
>> people working in this project before deciding upon it's implementation.
>>
>> Does the Plasma Media Center needs to have changing backgrounds? We can
>> implement it as an option (user-select) in the settings menu.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Harshit Agarwal.
>> 3rd Year,
>> Computer Science and Engineering,
>> National Institute of Technology, Durgapur.
>> Ph. No.: +91-8942031165
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:07 AM, R.Harish Navnit <harishnavnit at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>              I was unfortunate not to be there with you all for the
>>> conf.kde.in, which as I've been hearing was a huge success. I feel
>>> really gutted about the same. I'd have so dearly loved to have attended a
>>> few workshops on programming with Qt and KDE API's(if there were any).
>>> But another important thing that was mentioned to me was that during the
>>> conf.kde.in the ideas critical to PMC would be mentioned. I hope that
>>> there has been some resolution on the same.
>>> I'm starting this thread, hoping to hear some of the ideas that you may
>>> have. It'd be great if someone could spread some light on the current
>>> scenario on regarding the same.
>>> Maybe the next critical Idea stems from this thread :)
>>>
>>> Warm Regards.
>>>
>>> Thanking You,
>>> R.Harish Navnit
>>> The Enigma <http://harishnavnit.wordpress.com>
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
> http://www.shantanutushar.com
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