[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Konqueror design proposal
From:       "Thomas Schilling" <snuffeler () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-02-17 16:43:54
[Download RAW message or body]

The problem is not that the button is sunken. The problem is
- or the tab-like style's advantage is - that you have a better
indication that the icons on the right describe what is shown
on the right (and that you can change this by pressing one of
these icons). When you just have some buttons/icons it could
also mean that they perform actions or sth. instead of just
changing what is shown.

So I vote for tab-style.

But I find that the configuration and close buttons must differ
more from the category icons/buttons.



----- Original Message -----
From: Roland Riegel <roland.riegel.maillist@gmx.de>
To: <kde-look@kde.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: Konqueror design proposal


> Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2002 16:43 schrieb Dave Leigh:
> > Did you label these properly?
> >
> > The vertical buttons have two purposes:
> > 1. As a control, they select the contents of the treeview,
> > 2. As an indicator, the display the category of the currently displayed
> > contents.
> >
>
> Yes, of course.
>
> > http://www.roland-riegel.de/konq/konq.png is much better in every
regard,
> > IMHO. It's cleaner, _clearly_ associates the button with the content,
and
> > has that lovely drop-shadow effect that makes it instantly clear which
icon
> > is selected.
> >
> > http://www.roland-riegel.de/konq/konq_prop.png has none of the above.
The
> > indication of the selected icon is so subtle that it can easily be
missed,
> > depending on your theme.
>
> Hmm, I think it is clear that the currently activated button indicates the
> currently chosen treeview.
>
> I am not an expert in graphics at all, but I associate a sunken button
with
> "pressed" ("activated"), and a raised one with "not pressed". This is
exactly
> the other way round as it is in CVS now. In CVS the activated button is
> raised, and all the others are flat. I never saw a case where the
activated
> button looks not pressed. For an example in real-life there are these old
> radio receivers with buttons. You press one, and all the others
automatically
> jump out and are therefore not pressed.
>
> Of course it is a matter of style if a non-active button is drawn sunken
> (that is the darker edges are on the top and the left) or drawn without
> border at all (flat). In my proposal I drew the unpressed buttons flat,
> because they should be consistent with the two other buttons at the top
> seperated by the horizontal stripe.
>
> My main concern about current CVS is the black vertical line on the left
of
> the vertical button bar and the sunken/raised issue discussed above.
>
> I put up a slightly improved version of my proposal regarding your "lovely
> drop-shadow effect":
> http://www.roland-riegel.de/konq/konq_prop2.png
>
> Roland
>
> --
> Registered Linux user #214199 (see http://counter.li.org)
>
> Homepage: http://www.roland-riegel.de
>

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]