6 Aug
2014
6 Aug
'14
10:38 p.m.
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
