Apologies. I wasn't aware of the thread hacking act. My rationale behind changing the background is to enable the user to customize the Media Center to his/her own will. If they see something which is customized as their own, they would automatically spend more time on it, thus using and depending upon it's features more. A better alternative for achieving the same goal is most welcome!
Regards, Harshit Agarwal. 3rd Year, Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. Ph. No.: +91-8942031165 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shant...@kde.org>wrote: > Hi Harshit, > > First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, it is > a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly related > (this is popularly known as hacking others' threads :P) > > To the topic, I personally don't think it is a good idea to let the user > change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this is > that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visual > inconsistency. > > I'll love to hear from others' views on this, especially our Usability > folks. > > Cheers, > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Harshit Agarwal <see.hars...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> This is not exactly a critical idea, but I would like the opinion of >> people working in this project before deciding upon it's implementation. >> >> Does the Plasma Media Center needs to have changing backgrounds? We can >> implement it as an option (user-select) in the settings menu. >> >> Regards, >> Harshit Agarwal. >> 3rd Year, >> Computer Science and Engineering, >> National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. >> Ph. No.: +91-8942031165 >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:07 AM, R.Harish Navnit <harishnav...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I was unfortunate not to be there with you all for the >>> conf.kde.in, which as I've been hearing was a huge success. I feel >>> really gutted about the same. I'd have so dearly loved to have attended a >>> few workshops on programming with Qt and KDE API's(if there were any). >>> But another important thing that was mentioned to me was that during the >>> conf.kde.in the ideas critical to PMC would be mentioned. I hope that >>> there has been some resolution on the same. >>> I'm starting this thread, hoping to hear some of the ideas that you may >>> have. It'd be great if someone could spread some light on the current >>> scenario on regarding the same. >>> Maybe the next critical Idea stems from this thread :) >>> >>> Warm Regards. >>> >>> Thanking You, >>> R.Harish Navnit >>> The Enigma <http://harishnavnit.wordpress.com> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Plasma-devel mailing list >>> Plasma-devel@kde.org >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) > http://www.shantanutushar.com >
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