francesco.dev...@mailoo.org writes: > Hi list! > > I'm going to work to an update for the MokoFaen theme for QtMoko. I'm > planning a few changes to it but I really would like to have some > feedback from the community.
I like MokoFaen a lot. I think it's more beautiful and elegant than Finxi, and has better overall use of the screen space. Nevertheless I still switch back to Finxi quite frequently - simply because that's where Radek adds new things, and sometimes I need to see those. I think the challenge is more or less exactly as you've said below: how can you allow for all those extra little bits of information, while still staying elegant? > Usually I just follow my taste, but I admit that my work sometimes > lacks beauty and functionality. So I'm asking you to give me some > hints, to tell me what you like, what you don't like, what features do > you want. > > For now I found some aspects that I would like to change: > - The theme became heavy, if you use a GTA02 you can notice a less > responsiveness of the system, compared to the default Finxi theme. > I have to lighten the graphical elements; FWIW, on GTA04 I don't notice this. > - The theme became also "heavy" from an aesthetic point of view, maybe > a more minimal style could be pleasant; I don't know, because I only looked at MokoFaen recently. It doesn't seem heavy to me as it is now. > - In the home screen there are a lot of infos displayed, maybe they > can be regrouped in a more efficient way, I'm thinking about > something like conky [1] or conky-colors [2]; Those links look nice to me. I suppose if a bunch of information moved inside conky, and then each theme's homescreen embedded conky, - the advantage would be only having to manage that information in one place - the disadvantage would be that it would become more different to theme those pieces of information in a very fine-grained way. That's quite finely balanced... Perhaps what swings it, in favour of conky, is that when you have a large collection of basically numbers to present, it's good to impose some more structure on that. > I know that theming is not a critical task, for me it's just an > amusement, but your opinions and help could be really useful. It's much appreciated, all the same. Seems to make the phone a bit more human. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community