From kde-panel-devel Thu Feb 27 05:13:42 2014 From: Sinny Kumari Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 05:13:42 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Re: Letting users customize the default background on PMC homescreen (Was: Re: Ideas Critical to PMC Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=139347737423349 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============2976542492114114755==" --===============2976542492114114755== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c18c1a043eee04f35c3aa8 --001a11c18c1a043eee04f35c3aa8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2014 10:48:47 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > > Hi Harshit, > > > > First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, it > is > > a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly related > > (this is popularly known as hacking others' threads :P) > > > > To the topic, I personally don't think it is a good idea to let the user > > change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this is > > that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visual > > inconsistency. > > > > I'll love to hear from others' views on this, especially our Usability > > folks. > > Hi Harshit, hi Shantanu, > from a usability perspective, changing the background of a UI isn't a > no-go, > but it has to be handled with care. The most important thing is that to > avoid > bad contrast, every other element of the UI has to have a standard-color > background on top of the user-selected background. > You'd have to try that out (black background behind every UI element, > probably > with a few pixels around the actual element) and see whether it > a) looks good > b) leaves enough of the background visible to make sense at al +1 , Nice idea in case we want to go for user customized background -- http://www.sinny.in --001a11c18c1a043eee04f35c3aa8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable



On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer = <colomar@auti= stici.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 25 February 2014 = 10:48:47 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> Hi Harshit,
>
> First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, i= t is
> a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly relate= d
> (this is popularly known as hacking others' threads :P)
>
> To the topic, I personally don't think it is a good idea to let th= e user
> change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this i= s
> that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visua= l
> inconsistency.
>
> I'll love to hear from others' views on this, especially our U= sability
> folks.

Hi Harshit, hi Shantanu,
from a usability perspective, changing the background of a UI isn't a n= o-go,
but it has to be handled with care. The most important thing is that to avo= id
bad contrast, every other element of the UI has to have a standard-color background on top of the user-selected background.
You'd have to try that out (black background behind every UI element, p= robably
with a few pixels around the actual element) and see whether it
a) looks good
b) leaves enough of the background visible to make sense at al
=

+1 , Nice idea in case we want to go for user customize= d background
=A0

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