Visual design for logout/login/lockscreen

[Andrew Lake]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
>>
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>>
> Hi,
> I've been trying to sort these out during this week, together with David.
> I've pushed a new Lock and Logout implementations following these mockups.
> They don't look like that yet but it's quite close and workable. The main
> issue
> being that we cannot hardcode a plasma theme from them, or maybe it's not
> an issue.
>
> Well, either way it would be interesting if somebody could take a look and
> see what it feels like, then maybe we can iterate it forward.
>
> Cheers!
> Aleix
>

Exciting! I'll be sure to take a look as soon as I update my daily neon
packages.

Andrew
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