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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KSplash/ML donation?
From:       Gary Greene <greeneg () student ! gvsu ! edu>
Date:       2003-03-14 15:54:55
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On Friday 14 March 2003 8:45 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:11:25PM +0100, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 13. März 2003 06:40, Gary Greene wrote:
> > > I'd be interested in cutting my teeth on themable UIs for kdm_greeter.
> > > :)
>
> you seem to be masochistic. :)=
> we'd have to create something like libkdmwidgets.la to be able to use
> kdm's user list widget, etc. in qt-designer.
> the relations between the widgets can be created automatically if the
> widgets are named correctly. anyway, this requires the gui to follow a
> certain scheme, as otherwise the logic would be broken, obviously.
> you can have a look at what gdm did. btw, their themable gui still does
> not offer all features the hard-wired one had.

Eh, nah. My friends think I'm a little nuts but hey... ;)

Seriously though, this would add a lot more to the customisability of the 
system for GNU/Linux distributions or for that matter corporate offices. 
(Other than the ability to fool your boss into thinking that you're running 
one of those other commercial OS'.) To get the User info, I think that making 
that a reusable widget would be a Good Thing(TM). Mainly for the sake of 
other applications like POS systems.

As far as functionality is concerned, I agree that we need some standards in 
the UI design and probably a few warnings to the user about using certain 
theme types that I can think of (an XP-ish one would look great on a home 
system, however, on a LDAP network... :| )

> > Ossi: the defaults for kdm don't use keramik yet in the kcontrol center
> > module.
>
> dunno why. "Default" should be mapped to keramik, no? anyway, i dislike
> keramik, so i don't really care. :-P
>
> > Changing only one setting causes all other settings to be overwritten
> > which kdm uses by default (keramik etc.)
>
> ???
>
> > Tackat, do we have the mockups that we made last year for kdm still there
> > somewhere ?
>
> sure. some of them are from danimo, btw.
>
> greetings

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