On Saturday 05 April 2014 18:54:03 Andrew Lake wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:37 PM, David Edmundson wrote: > > Awesome! > > That login theme in nice, and I like the idea of the visual > > consistency throughout. I'll have a go at implementing the login stuff > > on Monday, maybe the lock screen too as it'll be mostly copy & paste. > > Yay! > > > I have a few things that need adding to the login theme, maybe you can > > incorporate them in the mockup? > > > > - Session Choosing (KDE, Gnome, etc.) > > - Language selection (English, Deutsch) > > - Possibly keyboard layout selection > > Here we go: > http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/06/login_with_session_and_language.png > > So as I was trying to find a place for the session and language, I tried to > come up a very rough information model for the visual design: > http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/06/visual_information_model.png > > The session and language items show status and also allow you to change > them so I put them in that overlap area (status+action). (I also moved the > battery info out of that area). Hopefully that provides enough info to > figure out what else could go where.
The information model makes a lot of sense to me! Just one thing: It should just say "Plasma Desktop", not "KDE Plasma Desktop" (you know, branding...). > > I also currently need all 4 power options, suspend, shutdown, reboot, > > hibernate. > > We're happy to supply to those visuals. Between Jens and myself, we'll have > them for you in a few days. Btw: How did you decide which power options to always show and which to hide behind the dropdown? This is a delicate topic: There are good reasons for placing things like suspend and hibernate more prominently because they make sense from a technical perspective, while many users (pretty much all non- developers I know) seem to prefer shutdown. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel