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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: background layout
From:       Alistair Davidson <lord_inh () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-01-29 12:05:55
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Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:26, William Leese wrote:
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>>Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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>>>hi all...
>>>
>>>a new background dialog has been committed to CVS. there's a bit of a
>>>disagreement over some layout issues. screenshots can be seen at:
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>>>	http://urbanlizard.com/~aseigo/screens/bgdialog/
>>>
>>>i'd welcome some input.
>>
>>"Text color" has not been integrated in a differrent kcm (yet)?
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> 
> not for the desktop. this setting used to be elsewhere, but it's here now 
> since this setting really depends on your wallpaper/background colour 
> choices.
> 
> 
>>Has it become standard to make the color select widgets as wide as the
>>layout permits?
> 
> 
> i don't know of any standard for doing so, no... however, i am seeing it more 
> often in KDE apps.. the reason i did so here was to make the widgets similar 
> in size. ragged edges distract something fierce, while widgets that line up 
> are nice.. 
> 
> i just wish that you could coordinate columns between different layouts, that 
> way i could get ALL the widgets in that dialog to line perfectly, not just 
> the widgets in each box...
> 
> 
>>Nitpick: For the frame titles I'd change "Color" to "Background Color"
>>and "Picture" to "Background Picture". I don't believe it's redundant in
>>this case because of the limited amount of entities and the presence of
>>"Icon Text". OTOH it's more suggestive.
> 
> 
> i'll try that out ... 
> 
> 
>>It's better, but it still feels cluttered. I think this is more because
>>of the widget sizing rather than the amount of features presented.
> 
> 
> ok.. new revisions at:
> 
> 	http://urbanlizard.com/~aseigo/screens/bgdialog/

I definitely prefer the version without the jagged edges, personally... I 
think the dialog just provides so many features that it's bound to feel a 
little crowded, especially with the eye-candy theme.

My only thought is that you could space the groupboxes out a bit more, I just 
remembered my webdesigner gf lecturing me on the mportance of whitespace as 
somewhere to rest your eyes.

What's in the "advanced" dialog?

-- 
Alistair Davidson
Prying open your third eye since 1823

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