Review Request 121772: Fade panels when dashboard is shown

[David Edmundson]

> On Dec. 31, 2014, 11:29 a.m., Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > The more we (the VDG) think and learn about this, the more we realize that we haven't really thought it through yet.
> > It looks like it's "back to the drawing board" here, as we don't want to make a change that makes as many users unhappy as it makes users happy.
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> > The whole concept of the dashboard definitely needs to be improved, but just changing one thing while leaving the rest as it is won't help, so we'll get back to you guys when we have a real, thought-through plan.
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Yes, I had a conversation about that yesterday as well. I think it would be very healthy if the usability/vdg thought about the dashboard and plasma interaction in general.
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> Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>     Yes, it would, and we're on it. Stay tuned for an official announcement once we've figured out our approach to this (I expect this to be a rather big effort if we're going to do it right).
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Shameless plug. Plasma sprint coming up, great place to discuss rather big efforts: https://sprints.kde.org/sprint/260

Thomas, Kai: asking a subtly different question:

Any redesign is not going to get into Plamsa before 5.3. Do we want to have this in for the next 3 months or leave it like it currently is.


- David


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On Dec. 31, 2014, 10:01 a.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 31, 2014, 10:01 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and KDE Usability.
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> Bugs: 342123
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342123
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> As suggested by the VDG.
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> Diffs
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>   desktoppackage/contents/views/Panel.qml 04a8e0b 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121772/diff/
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> Testing
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> Dashboard there, Panel faded; Dashboard gone, Panel there
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> File Attachments
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> Dashboard with dim panel
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/12/31/957bad71-2bfc-4451-b1dd-479d747f1a19__dashboardpanel2.jpg
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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