Plasma-devel Digest, Vol 84, Issue 78

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plasma-devel-request at kde.org schreef op 23-6-2015 om 14:00:
> Today's Topics:
>
>     1. Re: Review Request 124151: Add a default icon to
>        notifications popup (Kai Uwe Broulik)
>     2. Re: Review Request 124151: Add a default icon to
>        notifications popup (Philipp A.)
>
>
> Screenshot
>    https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/06/22/0d8a0ee1-af00-410c-80f1-79190f51daf5__notification-default-icon.png
> No icon notification
>    https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/06/23/06c769be-b5fc-4360-9aac-6f3179601d92__notifications-layout1.png
>

The action based notification (for Amarok) doesn't look bad at all. It 
wouldn't hurt at all to have the actions layouted horizontally either.  
Of course that would make it difficult when you have an uneven number 
(or a differing number) of actions. A 2x2 action layout would not look 
bad. I feel the bottom is a better place for actions. It also depends on 
the size of text. You could have a grid-based layout or something that 
auto-spaces. I feel even with a single action the bottom would be a 
better place.

The very long text notification tester could have more spacing applied 
to both the text (bottom and right side) and the icon. The Amarok icon 
looks perfectly spaced including the distance to the text. That's 
probably because the icon includes spacing in itself. Ie. a transparent 
border. The booklet icon doesn't have this, which makes it look oddly 
big and crunched in between the text and the sides. Ideally perhaps 
you'd have spacing included (or applied to) every image in the sense of 
extra information for positioning. I have tried this on my own site but 
couldn't choose between getting every icon crafted perfectly or fixing 
some default spacing in them and then adding custom spacing to the 
icons. (This is a Wordpress site so it is possible to include customary 
fields with every media library item). The customary fields allow for 
rapid changing and possibly even scaling. Then you don't need to worry 
about the actual size of the icons anymore. I would recommend 
experimenting with scaling down that booklet icon by 10% and see how it 
looks.

Regards, Bart.