On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Burkhard L?ck <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2012, 20:07:14 schrieb Yuri Chornoivan: >> ???????? Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:26:08 +0300, T.C. Hollingsworth >> >> <tchollingsworth at gmail.com>: >> > Hi! >> > >> > I just committed my first stab at a visual dictionary to >> > branches/work/doc. ?The non-docs folks (or those too lazy to meinproc >> > it ;-) can check it out here: >> > http://tchol.org/kde/fundamentals/ui.html >> > >> > I just did one part so far: ?the basic elements of a window. ?I'll >> > also do all the little things like checkboxes and buttons and the >> > like, but I wanted to get some feedback first so I won't have to >> > change around dozens of UI elements. ?;-) >> > >> > You'll notice there's a full screenshot at the top, and you can click >> > on the different parts of the window to jump to the name and >> > description of it. > > I really like these links from the main window to the element screenshots in > the table.
Thanks! On that note, does anyone have a suggestion of good screens to use for the little widgets. It'd be nice to get them all in as few screenshots as possible. (Alternatively, I could quickly write a little app that contained all of them, but it'd be nice to use something real if possible.) >> > Ideally we'll have some fancy visual indicators >> > like the Plasma visual dictionary, but those can wait. > > Do you have a link to the Plasma visual dictionary? http://userbase.kde.org/User:Claus_chr/Visual_Dictionary It's more than just plasma now. (I'm pretty sure that's all that was there last time I looked.) > I had a similar idea to use some kind of highlighting (red border around parts > of main window like ksnapshot using Section of Window mode), see attachment. Yup, that's pretty much the same thing. For some reason in my mind I remembered it having labels for everything instead of numbers. (I haven't looked at it since we started on this a couple months ago.) Numbers aren't really necessary because imagemaps work better, and labels are probably too visually noisy. The borders are probably the way to go. >> > (You might >> > also notice that it looks weird uncentered. ?We have a CSS rule to >> > center normal <mediaobject>s but not <mediaobjectco> which makes >> > imagemaps. ?I'll fix this soon.) >> > >> > I'm not sure I like how the description ends up smashed like it is due >> > to the wider screenshots. ?My original thought was to have the name >> > and description in one column, but the only way I could think to do it >> > and look decent is using <variablelist> markup and that would be >> > rather verbose. >> > > Some ideas for visual improvement: > > * Reduce height for visualdict-window.png (see attachment) and visualdict- > window-centralwidget.png > > * Toolbar Text unter Icons or cut off the right prt of the toolbar screenshot > (reduce width of visualdict-window-toolbar.png -> more space for text in the > second column) > > * Add Scrollbars here Agreed on all three counts. > * Term "Panel" or "Sidebar"? > Dolphin uses the term "Panel" in GUI+Documentation, wheras Konqueror and Kate > use "Sidebar", what to use here? Ideally we'd get all the apps in the project to use the same term. ;-) Otherwise, I guess we should just list both. > Thanks a lot for your work. -T.C.
