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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: kcontrol
From:       Marco Martin <m4rt () libero ! it>
Date:       2004-07-26 7:57:34
Message-ID: 4104B96E.9070306 () libero ! it
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Benjamin Meyer wrote:
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> Rather than being just another complainer person who says "KControl sucks and 
> needs to be better" with nothing constructive to add, I have put together 
> some things first.
> 
> Based somewhat on the already constructed changes by this mailinglist 
> contained in kdebase/kcontrol/TODO I have written up first a doc specifying 
> the basic grouping along with explanations of what/why.  This type of doc 
> never seemed to have existed before which is part of the problem for the 
> constant kcontrol changes in the past 7 years (as far back as I know)
> 
> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/kcontrol4/kcontrol4.html
> 
> At the same time I played using QtDesigner and a little code and made a mockup 
> application: 
> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/kcontrol4/screenshots/mockup.png
> 
> Then I actually sat down and fleshed it out quite a bit more to the point 
> where it does actually load the kcontrol modules on your system.
> 
> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/kcontrol4/screenshots/
> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/kcontrol4/kcontrol4.tar.bz2
Yea!, i like it.
the only thing, i think a fast search textbox like in kcontrol3 should 
be here.

> You can compile it yourself and check it out.  It works just enough to play 
> with the system, but probably wouldn't take much more to finish it off.
> 
> I guess the work I have done present two things:
> 
> 1) A (sort of) formal doc that can be used explaining where modules go.  As 
> far as I know know one has bothered to write up something like this.  Feel 
> free to point me out as wrong. (no, mailing list archives don't count)
> 
> 2) A different way of looking at kcontrol.  Someone said it looks like 
> something from winXP, but if so that was not intensional and entirely 
> accidental. 
> 
> - -Benjamin Meyer
> 
> P.S.  When seeing the modules icon's at 64x64 some of the icons really don't 
> make much sense in relation with the module.
> 
> Keyboard - has a tux logo, doesn't make sense for bsd etc uses. 
> User profile - uses the icon with multiple heads, it should use the icon with 
> 1 head.
agree
> Multiple desktops - uses the same desktop icon
maybe 4 desktop icons tiled in some way? i will try to draw something.
> Taskbar - blue K?
it should have something more immediate
> Colors - Why is it the mimetype colors?  Shouldn't it be the color pallette 
> icon
> Window Decorations - Because a plain window decoration is used in the icon the 
> eye which typically ignores it will make you wonder what the icon is for.  
> Maybe a really crazy window decoration should be used?  The Style icon almost 
> works better than the window decoration icon for window decoration
> Icons - Looks like stamps...
> 
> Anyway just a ps, if you have comments on this please reply in a separate 
> e-mail than about the kcontrol topic.
> 
> - -- 
> aka icefox
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