Review Request 116648: Split into one KCM for Desktop Effects and one for Compositing

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On March 9, 2014, 7:04 p.m., Thomas Lübking wrote:
> > File Attachment: New advanced compositing KCM - kcmcompositing.png
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116648/#fcomment174>
> >
> >     OOC: Is there any HIG on this?
> >     Is the situation on QML better than on QWidget?
> >     (The issue is that the label is not active what makes the checkbox hitarea smaller than usual)
> >     
> >     I do this as well since QFormLayout somehow "enforces" it, yet it's anything but ideal :-(
> >     
> >     The second issue with this is that the -pot. very long- label is put on the left (it's worse with fullscreen unredirection) what makes either side vertically unbalanced.
> >     
> >     Maybe split the labels?
> >     
> >     Startup: [ ] Enable desktop effects
> >     Fullscreen window: [ ] Exclude from desktop effects
> >     Color correction: [ ] Enabled (experimental)
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     HIG is at http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Form_Label_Alignment#Checkboxes
>     
>     And given that it doesn't follow the HIG. For the record: it was the least worst layout, I tried normal vbox layout and a table layout with spanning before. I'll give a try at improving it by grouping the checkboxes a little bit better.

New screenshot: http://paste.opensuse.org/84257207

I like that quite a bit, we only need a label for this top group and I'm lacking ideas for it :-)


- Martin


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On March 9, 2014, 2:53 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated March 9, 2014, 2:53 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin, Plasma and Antonis Tsiapaliokas.
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> Repository: kwin-compositing-kcm
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> Description
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> Split into one KCM for Desktop Effects and one for Compositing
> 
> Let's try getting the KCM a little bit less scary by properly
> hiding everything the user doesn't have to care about. The prominent
> desktop effects KCM only contains the list of all the effects which
> can be configured and nothing else. Only exception is the disabled
> check after failed GL to make this easier for the user.
> 
> All the "advanced" settings are moved into a new KCM called
> "Compositing" which is put under the hardware component in
> systemsettings. This contains all advanced settings including
> * whether compositing is enabled at all
> * backend
> * animation speeed
> * scale filter
> * unredirect fullscreen
> * color correction
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> 
> Diffs
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>   qml/main.qml d22dd08da529df938d99ff9d43f52f7b33a7f2d3 
>   qml/OpenGLErrorView.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   qml/main-compositing.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   qml/EffectView.qml c1a66dfa41409ba04c4cf4ddded3d95bb4bfaef2 
>   qml/CompositingView.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   model.cpp 2b25fe04ccacf0fb719956b1b5fa0267611747e6 
>   model.h 2efa2a9df63ee7f7ec483df004ff9530fdc0f852 
>   main.cpp 5c68722961be9b8a0a48f3221df7c033ba3cf946 
>   kwincompositing.desktop 88ecf46b393df947d6b59ce53c924a82fc65756a 
>   kcmkwineffects.desktop PRE-CREATION 
>   CMakeLists.txt d70672f3937fb44240c2c2d8e2a8d90c67890e2a 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116648/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> File Attachments
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> New advanced compositing KCM
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/03/07/e20bc5a1-c873-497a-b005-efb6b58da7c5__kcmcompositing.png
> New effects KCM
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/03/07/0d6c955e-fdd2-4a84-91b4-53959f2745f5__kcmeffects.png
> Effects KCM with GHNS button
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/03/07/f467b643-5341-4cfe-8282-eeea93bc98e5__kcmeffects.png
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin Gräßlin
> 
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