D20569: RFC: Use more compact OSD

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  In general I feel like I have to agree with Eike that this might reduce the visual distinctiveness of the system. I think the current square one has character, though I don't hate the proposed new one.
  
  However I'm not sure this design would actually solve the most common problem that people have with it, which is "the OSD gets in the way when I change the volume while playing a video." This proposed new one one it still centered about a third of the way up, which means it'll still overlap actors' faces, subtitles, and so on.
  
  I don't think store.kde.org is a solution here because we have no standalone category for OSD themes since they're built into the Plasma theme. Having to replace the whole Plasma theme just to change the OSD style is a rather poor user experience that will cause you to use a 3rd-part fork of the Breeze theme that no longer receives official KDE updates. I think ultimately we will have to bite the bullet and make it configurable within the same Plasma theme, offering an option for a compact and non-centered OSD as a non-default setting.
  
  Alternatively, we can make the default non-centered but emotionally I don't like those as much as the big centered square ones.

REPOSITORY
  R120 Plasma Workspace

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D20569

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