On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:39 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> wrote: > 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.)
Any suggestions here? >>> > 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. I have made these changes in branches/work/doc now. I also improved the table formatting slightly, alphabetizing everything and using bold text for the names of widgets. I updated the copy here with the changes: http://tchol.org/kde/fundamentals/ui.html Any further comments before I finish out the set of widgets? >> Thanks a lot for your work. > > -T.C. Thanks, T.C.
