7 Aug
2014
7 Aug
'14
7:15 a.m.
On Thursday 07 of August 2014 00:38:03 Alexandre wrote:
Hi,
I transformed the opaque box center to a transparent one. I did it that
way, primarily because I know that some persons here does not agree with
the idea that important text might be on anything else than a plain color.
It is certainly understandable.
Yes, I had to ditch out the transparent part at first, because they were
hard to cut and had to make fit with many colors. But I did put the same
ribbon picture, a few pixel down a 5% opacity. It was there, but not very
visible. On this new picture, I put this second layer at 15% opacity,
instead of 5%. Now it is visible. I have no problem with it if you want to
provide a new ribbon. I would just have made the job easier for me!
As of the default wallpaper, I do not intent to work on it, at least for
now, because my personal preference goes for a natural background picture,
which is enjoyable when you have to work indoor for a long time. All of
these pictures were based on the Lineart-logo wallpaper, which is part of
Trinity since at least KDE 3.5.10.
Tell me what you think!
-Alexandre
Proposals with a dark background seem to me better. Proposal 11 looks great.
The previous proposals bothered me discrepancy text background.
I also liked the proposal 7 => without "wave" in the header. As the
background
is dark, so the wave is too dominant. Please, can you try two more options:
1) Instead of wave use a simple dark line - as there used previously from the
symbol icon on the right side.
2) The wave leave as is and text "on wave" align left.
I'm not saying that some of these variants will be better, because proposal 11
looks really good, I just wanted to try it.
--
Slavek
I think that it will be a good idea to replace the old
TDEUI with this
one for R14, because all of the TDE and KDE reviews are always showing
either Konqueror or the Control Center. If reviewers sees no visual
change at all, they will think that TDE has not progressed from classic
KDE 3.5.10, even if it is not true.
I would still like to have the advice or opinion of the other devs.
Michele, can you contact them, just in case they don't look at this
message?
Okay, a few things:
1. The dark blue version does look better than the light one (something
about hue or saturation that I'm too lazy to figure out)
2. Both of them would probably look better if the opaque background in
the center portion of the boxes was translucent instead. Since Konqueror
doesn't support CSS3, that means using a translucent .png image instead
of the solid-colour background provided by the stylesheet. I can help you
with the CSS for this if you need it. Alternatively, you could either
make the inner part of the border opaque while leaving the outer part
translucent, or "fade in" the opacity towards the center using a
gradient.
3. If we're going to do extensive visual rebranding of Trinity (and I
don't object to that--moving away from the KDE3 default scheme is a
reasonable thing to do), we should do it completely and consistently if
possible. That means that the splash screen (which you've already hit),
the Konqueror/Control Center background, and I think the default desktop
wallpaper, should clearly go together, as they do in KDE3.
4. Yes, I would like to keep the ribbon, although I think you cut too
much of it on the last iteration when you ditched the
intended-to-be-translucent stripes. I can try to reconstruct the
original graphic properly this weekend--I've been meaning to for a while
anyway.
I'll tweak the website, etc. to match whatever the final product turns
out to be.
E. Liddell