Visual design for logout/login/lockscreen

[David Edmundson]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2014, David Edmundson wrote:
>> > * I think is just fine using the default theme and swapping textcolors
>> > and backgroundcolors for the rectangles: to me it looks way better if
>> > even if is dark, the two buttons still look light/default
>>
>> Toolbuttons were the big problem with just hardcoding colours for text
>> and background
>>
>>  - if the icon is black you can't see it on the background
>>  - if the icon is also hardcoded to white, you can't see it when you
>> do the mouseover
>>
>>  - if you avoid using a toolbutton and load them as images hardcoded
>> to white, you have no indication that it's a button, and it's bad to
>> have some buttons behaving differently
>
> I tried making them explicitly visible, don't seem that bad
> http://wstaw.org/m/2014/06/05/plasma-desktopGg1731.png
> (only the test app, so no blur)
>
> mutually exclusive buttons on one side looks maybe a bit "heavier" but perhaps
> seems a bit more intuitive.
>

That works for me.
I'll update login next week.

David