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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Letting users customize the default background on PMC homescreen (Was: Re: Ideas Critical to PMC
From:       Sinny Kumari <ksinny () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-02-27 5:13:42
Message-ID: CABbDtLqy5-vGMFKyy+0w1pHe5XCaugky4R6Kw=P7OZuhX5LvSw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar@autistici.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, 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


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<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, \
Feb 27, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:colomar@autistici.org" \
target="_blank">colomar@autistici.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Tuesday 25 February 2014 10:48:47 Shantanu \
Tushar Jha wrote:<br> &gt; Hi Harshit,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, it is<br>
&gt; a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly related<br>
&gt; (this is popularly known as hacking others&#39; threads :P)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; To the topic, I personally don&#39;t think it is a good idea to let the user<br>
&gt; change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this is<br>
&gt; that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visual<br>
&gt; inconsistency.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I&#39;ll love to hear from others&#39; views on this, especially our \
Usability<br> &gt; folks.<br>
<br>
</div>Hi Harshit, hi Shantanu,<br>
from a usability perspective, changing the background of a UI isn&#39;t a no-go,<br>
but it has to be handled with care. The most important thing is that to avoid<br>
bad contrast, every other element of the UI has to have a standard-color<br>
background on top of the user-selected background.<br>
You&#39;d have to try that out (black background behind every UI element, \
probably<br> with a few pixels around the actual element) and see whether it<br>
a) looks good<br>
b) leaves enough of the background visible to make sense at \
al</blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 , Nice idea in case we want to go for user \
customized background<br></div><div> </div></div><br>-- <br><a \
href="http://www.sinny.in" target="_blank">http://www.sinny.in</a> </div></div>



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