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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    RE: Configure Desktop Background
From:       "Poletti, Don" <Don.Poletti () comverse ! com>
Date:       2002-05-31 14:30:48
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Will browsing the CC for the index project suggested. I just
ran across the login manager. there is a background tab there
as well and it is waterdown version of the "real" one. Any suggestions
on combining these?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Firebaugh [mailto:jfirebaugh@kde.org]
>Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:56 AM
>To: kde-usability@mail.kde.org
>Subject: Re: Configure Desktop Background
>
>
>On Wednesday 22 May 2002 9:45, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> On May 22, 2002 07:15 pm, John Firebaugh wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:59, John Firebaugh wrote:
>> > > This weekend I will try to get a working mock of my idea, using
>> > > QWidgetStack.
>> >
>> > Well, I couldn't wait. Here is a working mock up of the 
>best solution,
>> > IMHO. I think so because:
>>
>> the individual layouts need work. e.g. the single colour 
>mode has that one
>> lonely colour setting. it looks sort of out of place ;-)
>
>Yes, I agree. It's one of the disadvantages of the design.
>
>> i'm still concerned about multiple widgets that control the 
>same setting
>> (e.g. colours) ... at least now they aren't all visible at 
>the same time.
>> it would be nice if they remained in the same general 
>position however,
>> since that would help people learn what they do... maybe..
>>
>> i couldn't really test too much since the resulting binary likes to
>> segfault on me :-/
>
>Eric reported the same. Strangely, it doesn't happen to me. 
>I'm not running 
>qt-copy; perhaps that makes a difference. Can you send a backtrace?
>
>> but it is deffinitely another option... we need to get some 
>users in front
>> of the current dialog, your new design and the reinterp of SadEagle's
>> layout that i've done and see exactly how people interact 
>with it... i
>> could probably do this with a small handful of average 
>users... can anyone
>> else throw a few people at this and observe how they use the 
>variations?
>
>Agreed. A little testing will go a long way here.
>
>-John
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