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List:       kdevelop-devel
Subject:    Re: KDevelop's welcome page
From:       Sven Brauch <svenbrauch () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2011-12-02 16:39:22
Message-ID: CAE_ay6=1KyKTcA8uEi-f+L31Tp5tJnvKqbkyY_E+CXg6H=UZ2A () mail ! gmail ! com
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I'd add it now, as you say, it's better than the grey screen.

2011/12/2 Aleix Pol <aleixpol@kde.org>:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol@kde.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Michael Andersson
> > <mike.andersson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > A few points:
> > > 
> > > * Round edges is contemporary and definitely can be professional. In
> > > fact, sharp edges have a '90:s air to them and should be avoided unless
> > > they're designed very well.
> > > 
> > > * I am one of the significant minority that gets headaches from bright
> > > backdrops. All my UI:s are set to dark colours. Your mock-ups presuppose
> > > white backdrops, which not only looks bad for us with dark colour schemes
> > > but also is actually painful. I would recommend that the colours
> > > auto-adjust, or that you prepare a dark scheme too.
> > > 
> > > The basic design is nice though!
> > > 
> > > Michael
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 16 November 2011 20:41, Sven Brauch <svenbrauch@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Looks cool! Are you sure about the round corners? Maybe it'd look more
> > > > professional with sharp ones, no? :)
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers
> > > > 
> > > > 2011/11/16 Ruan Strydom <rm3dom@gmail.com>:
> > > > > Just an idea
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://www.jcell.co.za/welcome.png
> > > > > 
> > > > > Cheers
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 02:29:30 AM Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > > So I wanted to give a push to the welcome page these days, here there
> > > > > > are
> > > > > > some results. I think it's more or less ready to be merged to master,
> > > > > > but
> > > > > > probably you'll want to change some things ( ;) ) so that's why I'm
> > > > > > sending
> > > > > > this mail here.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > It's on the welcomepage branch, if you want to you can try it now. It
> > > > > > should just work. If it doesn't: poke me :).
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > For those lazier I've prepared some screenshots so that you can have
> > > > > > an
> > > > > > idea of what it looks like:
> > > > > > http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage-learn.png<http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage1.png<http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage2.png<http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/kdev-welcomepage.png>
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > Furthermore, I know I'm no good designer. If someone wants to help
> > > > > > with the
> > > > > > looks, I'll be deeply thankful :).
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Cheers!
> > > > > > Aleix
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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> > 
> > To be fair, I don't really mind if they are rounded or square :)
> > 
> > Do you think you could adapt the mockup pixmaps to the QML BorderImage [1]
> > element?
> > 
> > This way we can start using them...
> > 
> > Aleix
> > 
> > 
> > [1]  http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/qml-borderimage.html?tab=1
> > 
> 
> 
> Well, we can't leave this thread like this.
> 
> If somebody thinks it is too ugly, please provide an idea (something further
> than just a mock up image). Otherwise I'll merge to master and there we can
> play with it. In any case I don't think it's worse than a gray screen...
> 
> It would be good to use the KDE QML Components, but I don't think it's an
> option for KDev 4.3 since we would depend on KDE 4.8, but theming will be
> easier and more integrated once it's done.
> 
> If you guys still think it's too bad for us, then let's just start the kdev
> 4.3 process and plan a soon-ish 4.4.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Aleix
> 
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