On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Andrew Lake <jamboar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> After reading Aaron's nearly year old blog entry again this week ( >> http://aseigo.blogspot.de/2013/05/visual-harmony-in-plasma-workspaces-2.html) >> , especially the following quote: >> >> > ...the log out dialog still has things that look like little push >> buttons and it still has inexplicable >> > picture on the left, despite now being written in QML and having all >> the power that implies. >> > >> > Plasma Workspaces 2 is our opportunity to improve these parts by >> harmonizing and modernizing >> > them. The log out interface ought to look like it belongs with the lock >> screen; the log in screen >> > ought to mesh with the splash screen... >> > >> >We have a couple people who can do this kind of work, but they have lots >> on their plate already. >> >This is a great opportunity for someone with a flair for design to get >> involved... >> >> I put a little effort into identifying a visual design that might get us >> a little bit closer. I apologize that I don't have any idea what work may >> have already been put into this area, so please don't take my ignorance as >> a dismissal of any work that has already occurred. I also shared this >> design with other members of the Visual Design Group and there were no >> objections to offering these designs here. >> >> Anyway here goes: >> Login: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/05/login_mockup.png >> Logout: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/03/logout_mockup.png >> Unlock: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/05/unlock_mockup.png >> Shutdown: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/03/shutdown_mockup2_1.png >> >> We're happy to provide any visual assets required, which shouldn't be >> much. (We already have a few to choose from). I won't speak to architecture >> since that's your wheelhouse, but my assumption is that the UI layer could >> be handled by the same QML package with enough hooks for the various >> existing underlying functionality to use. I would like to have offered up a >> QML package with this, but it's early days yet for my QML familiarity (but >> getting better fast). :-) >> >> Hope this is helpful and please let me know if there are any questions, >> Andrew Lake >> Community designer in the KDE Visual Design Group >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Plasma-devel mailing list >> Plasma-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >> >> > Hi, > I've been trying to sort these out during this week, together with David. > I've pushed a new Lock and Logout implementations following these mockups. > They don't look like that yet but it's quite close and workable. The main > issue > being that we cannot hardcode a plasma theme from them, or maybe it's not > an issue. > > Well, either way it would be interesting if somebody could take a look and > see what it feels like, then maybe we can iterate it forward. > > Cheers! > Aleix >
Exciting! I'll be sure to take a look as soon as I update my daily neon packages. Andrew
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