Hi Lindsay, On Friday, October 18, 2013 07:29:48 Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > Rather to late in the day I know, but I fail to see how the new network > applet is an improvement in any manner. > > - less information
What information are you missing? I assume you saw the extra information you get when clicking on the active connection and the wrench? > - less control Is that really the case? What functionality are you missing? > - Subjective opinion: Butt ugly As you note, it's subjective. What I like about it is the good number of improvements that have gone into it, it fixes various graphical glitches by moving to QML, the single column layout is less overwhelming and concentrates on its primary usecase. There's surely improvements to be made, but "butt ugly" doesn't go very far in pointing out actual issues. At Akademy, Thomas and Björn, two of our usabilty experts have gone over the new UI with its developers, I don't know if everything that was brought up has changed already (I know much of it has, and that's surely visible). Please try to be more constructive in your criticism. > Users aren't going to be happy. The perception will be of a gnome style > makeover - dumbing down the UI and removing control because the users are > to stupid to handle it. This is really an oversimplification, let's try to focus on actual technical or usability issues, which need really detailing them by you. > Was there a pressing need to replace the old one? Yes. It had graphical glitches, and was hard to maintain as it was a huge load of QGraphics* classes. It can't survive in Plasma 2 either, as QGV is gone there. I have in fact just ported the code to Plasma 2, and that went rather smoothly. The new codebase also makes it a lot easier to improve the UI. Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
