Review Request 126319: Plasma 5.6 "Graphite" Wallpaper

Sun Dec 27 00:41:12 UTC 2015

> On Dec. 11, 2015, 7:08 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > > Attached images directly to request; if this is not the preferred way of attaching large files
> > 
> > Attaching just one file would be fine, I mean this is just to see it right?
> > So there's no need to upload /all/ the resolutions, imo :)
> > 
> > > I would like to shift to more "professional" default wallpapers
> > 
> > Can you clarify a bit what does that mean?
> > 
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> > Overall the wallpaper strikes me as a visual corruption. This may be due
> > to my currently slightly broken intel driver which creates all sorts of 
> > graphical glitches and that wallpaper to me just looks like it glitched
> > (the shadow polygon going on from the top-left corner is just a strong
> > reminescence of that plus the "rainbow noise" going on at the lower-right
> > diagonal part of the image).
> 
> Ken Vermette wrote:
>     Ah, sorry, haven't seriously used reviewboard. Wasn't sure if the content in the request would be what actually goes into the repo. David very patiently explained everything I needed to know about this all, but my birdy little brain promptly forgot anything important and I don't think I've (properly) gotten as far as having a patch committed. Sorry - this is an area I'm trying to improve.
>     
>     Generally when I talk about "professional" I'm talking less organic, wild, "in your face" wallpapers. 5.2 was just horrible neon mess, 5.3 looked cluttered, 5.4 was regularly called an "acid trip", etc... I don't want to make things dull and lifeless, but after going down the current road I think a cleaner approach is worth a shot. Practically this means I want to be more conservative in the shapes and clutter department, rope in the organics a bit, and focus on clearly defined visually interesting layers.
>     
>     ---
>     
>     Hopefully our users aren't exposed to enough visual corruption to feel that way :P 
>     
>     But in all seriousness I will move the top-left of the "shadow polygon" away from the corner though (possibly hiding it off-screen entirely (in certian sizes it is cropped anyway), I do regularly work on a machine with AMD graphics w/ graphical bugs and I can understand the where you're coming from when I specifically look for it. 
>     
>     Otherwise people who have seen this wallpaper haven't mentioned it looking glitchy, so general users may not be as sensitive to this. Consider that I personally don't see it as a big issue, as for some "glitchy" is even a desirable look. Before I remove/alter the circuit pattern I'd like to see another person or two weigh in and answer if I'm biased because I know what it's supposed to be, or if you are possibly biased from working on a system with visual corruption. Does anyone else think;
>      - the pattern could be regularly/easily misidentified as visual corruption?
>      - ... And would a wallpaper with that style be a problem?
>     
>     I'll wait until we decide what to do with the pattern before loading another version (with the shadow polygon altered)
> 
> Alessandro Longo wrote:
>     Every time that you release a wallpaper I think: "oh, OK, this is the best 
>     wallpaper ever, even the next won't be better than this!" and every time you 
>     surprise me with a wallpaper better than the previous.
>     
>     This time you impress me again, this wallpaper goes exactly in the direction I 
>     wanted for Plasma! It's professional, has unique style, it's an art 
>     masterpiece.
>     
>     I want it for Plasma 5.6. Absolutely.

I've moved the top-left shadow entry point to off-screen, which should remove any tangental lines which create the feel of visual corruption. I've gotten more feedback on the intel-glitch-bar and tried removing the chipset patterns - has it helped fix the corruption effect?

- Ken

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On Dec. 27, 2015, 12:22 a.m., Ken Vermette wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 27, 2015, 12:22 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: breeze
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> Description
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> Attached images directly to request; if this is not the preferred way of attaching large files, please let me know and I'll change methods, perhaps using the VDG share if that's preferred.
> 
> For reference I would like to shift to more "professional" default wallpapers and away from the more organic style of 5.4 and 5.5. Feedback on both general direction or this wallpaper is welcome.
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> Note: I will submit splash files later in case of changes to this wallpaper.
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> Diffs
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>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/1024x768.png 60e1205 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/1280x1024.png 36a9130 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/1280x800.png c33e594 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/1440x900.png 2c75b54 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/1600x1200.png 5ddaf72 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/1638x1024.png a3c7492 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/1680x1050.png eddc47e 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/1920x1080.png ab6d950 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/2560x1440.png 5c78e9d 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/2560x1600.png eeb08a1 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/3200x1800.png 7340567 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/images/3200x2000.png fd1a62c 
>   wallpapers/Next/contents/screenshot.png a6d2b7b 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126319/diff/
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> Testing
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> Dogfooded on several machines and my phone for a couple weeks now, doesn't burn eyes out. Corner isn't as distracting as one might assume, especially once a window is on screen. Got early feedback, adjustments made from origional in order:
>  - Re-drew the "circuit/chip" pattern to be less noisy/distracting/cleaner. Adjusted it so details are still seen on lower-res wallpapers.
>  - Lightened purple to avoid the "dark void" feeling people have mentioned feeling from 5.5 wallpaper.
>  - Fixed minor pixel issues for triangles near edge
>  - Adjusted noise, shadows.
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> File Attachments
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> 1024x768.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/5e9e5db3-c8d4-43ec-8236-da5daa80be85__1024x768.png
> 1280x800.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/41e11bb9-eaef-4eb1-bb4b-c7137becaca0__1280x800.png
> screenshot.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/ee643bd5-8162-4a9b-ae09-df090d4f0b43__screenshot.png
> 1280x1024.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/054536c9-8160-418a-a1c9-c319e1e2b533__1280x1024.png
> 1440x900.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/c4c61ba4-10ea-4d87-9437-7b7e1701eaf7__1440x900.png
> 1600x1200.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/ee746ed5-428d-4423-8e20-d9786b25190f__1600x1200.png
> 1638x1024.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/233a9950-24bd-47b6-8c7a-8f3e6fe707df__1638x1024.png
> 1680x1050.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/4c86e45c-eb10-47fa-b1ff-736bd65918cc__1680x1050.png
> 1920x1080.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/93cc544a-a8a8-4291-91ff-58140ec5ed64__1920x1080.png
> 2560x1440.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/73ad5caf-5156-495b-939c-387ce4970140__2560x1440.png
> 2560x1600.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/1ff471aa-2e26-41d9-8921-2c62544d3415__2560x1600.png
> 3200x1800.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/7590da34-e5c5-4f55-9ac9-0a22c13a9c0d__3200x1800.png
> 3200x2000.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/11/229a429e-9633-4988-ad78-dfb039583fc4__3200x2000.png
> desktopWallpaper-graphite-3.3-kvermette.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/27/bc1de0b2-a753-4772-b5a7-8d5c27c0138b__desktopWallpaper-graphite-3.3-kvermette.png
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken Vermette
> 
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