On July 19, 2010 11:19:31 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > speaking of which... *coughs* we still don't have a Welcome Plasmoid, do
> > we?
>
> Yep :) Well, this would be nice to have in the welcome plasmoid, but
> it would be a *huge* thing to implement.
gotta start somewhere...
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> speaking of which... *coughs* we still don't have a Welcome Plasmoid, do we?
Yep :) Well, this would be nice to have in the welcome plasmoid, but
it would be a *huge* thing to implement.
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On July 19, 2010 01:55:22 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> >> This is just an idea that came to me looking at some mobile GUIs (or was
> >> it websites?), but I think that could really work in order to have the
> >> common user find out our best features.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >
> > problems with tho
On Monday 19 July 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > maye there could still be a little bit of shading more.
> > like a ight gradient in the bottom part of the marble too and have a 1
> > pixel light border inside the dark border?
>
> The theme can be easily changed. I'll probably leave it up to Nuno :)
>> This is just an idea that came to me looking at some mobile GUIs (or was it
>> websites?), but I think that could really work in order to have the common
>> user find out our best features.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> problems with those things is that users tend to find this kind of things
> a
> maye there could still be a little bit of shading more.
> like a ight gradient in the bottom part of the marble too and have a 1 pixel
> light border inside the dark border?
The theme can be easily changed. I'll probably leave it up to Nuno :)
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On Saturday 17 July 2010, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:11:46 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > To repeat Chani's question - do you have any idea how to make the more
> > prominent?
>
> Tooltips appearing and suggesting to the user the new features? (with the
> button don't show this
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> And here is the attachment
pretty good.
maye there could still be a little bit of shading more.
like a ight gradient in the bottom part of the marble too and have a 1 pixel
light border inside the dark border?
just toughts
>
> ... i hate gmail's web
A small update:
- KIdenticonGenerator can now create QIcons as well as QPixmaps
- More states - all QIcon::Modes supported
- Test applet
- Rather pretty :) (maybe kdegames would like pretty marbles like this :) )
- in plasma's playground under libs (Chani will kill me for this)
Todo:
- needs
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:11:46 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> To repeat Chani's question - do you have any idea how to make the more
> prominent?
Tooltips appearing and suggesting to the user the new features? (with the
button don't show this again)
I was thinking of a simple, black-ish, transparent tool
On Monday 12 July 2010 13:21:52 Marco Martin wrote:
> i basically agree on all points, as probably i already said, the way i
> would like more is:
+1, and then a little bit more! :)
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On Tuesday 13 July 2010 07:34:35 Chani wrote:
> how would you suggest that be done?
Ask Celeste to come up with something great :-)
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> Yeah, I could do that, but while I'm not afraid of reading blogs, typical
> users won't do that. It'd be really great if by SC 4.6 it was easily
I completely agree. For 4.5 it was not the case since we only
scratched the surface.
> discoverable for common users (and advanced users alike) what a
On July 12, 2010 16:27:40 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010 23:40:42 Chani wrote:
> > if you want details, go read my blog posts on activities :)
> > http://chani.wordpress.com/?s=activities
>
> Yeah, I could do that, but while I'm not afraid of reading blogs, typical
> users won't
On Monday 12 July 2010 23:40:42 Chani wrote:
> if you want details, go read my blog posts on activities :)
> http://chani.wordpress.com/?s=activities
Yeah, I could do that, but while I'm not afraid of reading blogs, typical
users won't do that. It'd be really great if by SC 4.6 it was easily
di
> separate UI? wuh?
1 - menu of icons and a 'more...' option
2 - standard icon chooser when 'more...' is clicked
> I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's not so bad to leave it to the user. After
> all, we don't try to auto-name the activity for them, new activities currently
> start at "unnamed"...
On Monday, July 12, 2010 04:48:39 am Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > -in the activity configuration, there would be something that looks like
> > a combobox to chose icons, that shows just the set of "20 good ones" or
> > an "other..." option
>
> Yeah, we'll need to discuss this one a bit more - whether it
On Monday 12 July 2010, Chani wrote:
> On Monday, July 12, 2010 03:04:42 am Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough
> > > to make people not wanting to use those
> >
> > Maybe it s
On Monday, July 12, 2010 04:09:44 am Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> > Il 12/07/2010 12:54, Marco Martin ha scritto:
> > > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > >> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:47:51 Marco Martin wrote:
> > >>> or do you have a
On Monday, July 12, 2010 03:04:42 am Markus Slopianka wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> > unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough
> > to make people not wanting to use those
>
> Maybe it should be easily discoverable what Activities actu
On Monday 12 July 2010 12:58:23 Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> Well, I don't completely see the point of avoiding any type of
> configuration to the user. IMO, when creating a new activity, the user
> might be prompted to choose among a set of default activities. Those
> activities might already hav
> -in the activity configuration, there would be something that looks like a
> combobox to chose icons, that shows just the set of "20 good ones" or an
> "other..." option
Yeah, we'll need to discuss this one a bit more - whether it is good
(usability-wise) to make a separate UI for icon choosing.
Il 12/07/2010 13:09, Ivan Čukić ha scritto:
> 0. Not going to discuss about the reasoning behind identicons again.
>
> 1. Activities are no more only /desktop-setups-group-of-widgets/ so
> making thumbnails can be counter-productive - you can keep the desktop
> empty in all activities and still w
On Monday 12 July 2010 12:16:04 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > me realy does not care much as long as we have something that looks
> > pretty and is easy to recognize by the user, i proposed to do those
> > icons because wen I saw how our Chani chose random icons to represent
> > them, i had my typical "you
On Monday 12 July 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> 0. Not going to discuss about the reasoning behind identicons again.
>
> 1. Activities are no more only /desktop-setups-group-of-widgets/ so
> making thumbnails can be counter-productive - you can keep the desktop
> empty in all activities and still want
> me realy does not care much as long as we have something that looks pretty and
> is easy to recognize by the user, i proposed to do those icons because wen I
> saw how our Chani chose random icons to represent them, i had my typical "your
> icons look soo ugly used like that" feeling... so I pro
0. Not going to discuss about the reasoning behind identicons again.
1. Activities are no more only /desktop-setups-group-of-widgets/ so
making thumbnails can be counter-productive - you can keep the desktop
empty in all activities and still want to use other activity-related
features. Or if you l
On Monday 12 July 2010 11:53:20 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough
> > > to make people not wanting to use those
> >
> > Maybe it
On Monday 12 July 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> Il 12/07/2010 12:54, Marco Martin ha scritto:
> > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> >> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:47:51 Marco Martin wrote:
> >>> or do you have a better idea to -magically- find an image that
> >>> represent that
Il 12/07/2010 12:54, Marco Martin ha scritto:
> On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
>> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:47:51 Marco Martin wrote:
>>> or do you have a better idea to -magically- find an image that represent
>>> that activity without user intervention?
>> Why would Activities
On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:47:51 Marco Martin wrote:
> > or do you have a better idea to -magically- find an image that represent
> > that activity without user intervention?
>
> Why would Activities be created without user intervention?
not creati
On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> > unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough
> > to make people not wanting to use those
>
> Maybe it should be easily discoverable what Activities actually are.
>
On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough to
> make people not wanting to use those
Maybe it should be easily discoverable what Activities actually are.
Maybe I'm uninformed, but I see them as virtual desktops wit
On Monday 12 July 2010 11:47:51 Marco Martin wrote:
> or do you have a better idea to -magically- find an image that represent
> that activity without user intervention?
Why would Activities be created without user intervention?
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On Monday 12 July 2010, nuno pinheiro wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010 10:35:44 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > Aren't icons supposed to be meaningful? How do those random patterns
> > represent activities in an iconic way?
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On Monday 12 July 2010 10:35:44 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> Aren't icons supposed to be meaningful? How do those random patterns
> represent activities in an iconic way?
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On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> Aren't icons supposed to be meaningful? How do those random patterns
> represent activities in an iconic way?
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Aren't icons supposed to be meaningful? How do those random patterns represent
activities in an iconic way?
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> now, what if $plasmoid wants to use the icon (eg, activity bar)? what if
> $application wants to use the icon (eg. when associating something with an
> activity)? it'd be nice if I could see the icons when assigning windows to
> activities, but I dunno if that'd be possible with autogenerated one
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> 2. We need a list of common activities for Nuno to make icons for.
> Ideas? We should get at least 20 :)
At the very least the same categories found in the Application
Launcher could be used, with the added advantage that they don't need
separa
On Sunday, July 11, 2010 03:20:39 pm Ivan Čukić wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At aKademy, Nuno proposed a bit different design for identicons used
> for plasma activities.
>
> 1. The identicons should be showed inside a bubble with background and
> an overlay.
they look pretty :)
now, what if $plasmoid
Hi all,
At aKademy, Nuno proposed a bit different design for identicons used
for plasma activities.
1. The identicons should be showed inside a bubble with background and
an overlay.
2. He will make some default icons for users that want to choose
specific ones instead of the automatically genera
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