30 Jan
2015
30 Jan
'15
12:33 a.m.
Hi,
I want to propose a new color theme and graph settings for KSysGuard, because the actual
one are rather ugly and visually overloaded, to my opinion. I also wanted to post
screenshot of different system monitors available on other OSes or on other desktop
environment.
Thank you! Tell me what you think!
-Alexandre
30 Jan
30 Jan
7:05 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Different System monitor comparison - New color theme proposed for KSysGuard
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On 01/30/2015 09:33 AM, Alexandre wrote:
Hi,
I want to propose a new color theme and graph settings for KSysGuard, because the actual
one are rather ugly and
visually overloaded, to my opinion. I also wanted to post screenshot of different system
monitors available on
other OSes or on other desktop environment.
Thank you! Tell me what you think! -Alexandre
Good point, the current colors are really old style IMO. The proposed colors looks
better, although I would make the
writing a little more visible. Another possibility would be to use a slightly pale
background instead of white.
Could you try a few variations and sned them in?
In general though, I think a rework of the current Ksysguard graph is what is really
needed. The ones from KDE4 and
Gnome looks much better.
By the way, your desktop background looks quite nice. Is it possible for you to share it
as well?
Cheers
Michele
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31 Jan
31 Jan
2:27 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Different System monitor comparison - New color theme proposed for KSysGuard
In general though, I think a rework of the current Ksysguard graph is what is really
needed. The ones from KDE4 and
Gnome looks much better.
They look better, and they update the graph faster than 1
time/second, so it appear to move much more smoothly. Also, with the speed of modern
computer, maybe some info is missed because of the slow update.
By the way, your desktop background looks quite nice. Is it possible for you to share it
as well?
Of course, here it is:
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Country-Road?content=168594
Cheers
Michele
I also post a picture of the Win 8.1 task manager. While Win is not always the best OS, I
think that Win 8.1 task manager is very well crafted, and could be inspired from if one
day TDE's task manager is to be redesigned. It shows easily all the info I want to see
in a task manager, separated by sections for ram, cpu, hdd and network, while still
showing a little graph of each one, to see easily what happens with your system.
Thank you!
-Alexandre
2 Feb
2 Feb
7:37 a.m.
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On 01/31/2015 11:27 PM, Alexandre wrote:
Good point, the current colors are really old style IMO. The proposed colors looks better,
although I would make
the writing a little more visible. Another possibility would be to use a slightly pale
background instead of
white. Could you try a few variations and sned them in? Yes. From the proposed
ones, the ones I prefer are either white or window background gray.
One thing: The horizontal lines and the text has only 1 common color setting. Also, maybe
reverse color (as we see
often for the percent text on a progress bar) could be good for the text, or having the
scale text at the left of
the graph, instead of in the graph.
Talking about the scales, I think that for the ram and swap graphs, the size could be
written in GB, not in MB,
since modern computers have much more ram than in the past. Also, when scales doesn't
fit mathematically on a
perfect number (as 1/3 = 0,333333333), I think that displaying 2 numbers after the point
is enough (as 0,33).
Thanks!
I think the first version was better, IMO. Let's see if anyone else has any
comment, otherwise I will push that
version. Can you send in the modified files?
Cheers
Michele
In general though, I think a rework of the current Ksysguard graph is what is really
needed. The ones from KDE4
and Gnome looks much better.
They look better, and they update the graph faster
than 1 time/second, so it appear to move much more smoothly.
Also, with the speed of modern computer, maybe some info is missed because of the slow
update.
By the way, your desktop background looks quite nice. Is it possible for you to share it
as well?
Of course, here it is:
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Country-Road?content=168594 Cheers Michele
I also post a picture of the Win 8.1 task manager. While Win is not always the best OS, I
think that Win 8.1 task
manager is very well crafted, and could be inspired from if one day TDE's task
manager is to be redesigned. It
shows easily all the info I want to see in a task manager, separated by sections for ram,
cpu, hdd and network,
while still showing a little graph of each one, to see easily what happens with your
system.
Thank you! -Alexandre
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8:25 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Different System monitor comparison - New color theme proposed for KSysGuard
On Sunday 01 February 2015 10:37:34 pm Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 01/31/2015 11:27 PM, Alexandre wrote:
Thanks!
I think the first version was better, IMO. Let's see if anyone else has any
comment, otherwise I will push that version. Can you send in the modified
files?
Cheers
Michele
No real preference, a comment though. I like/need more contrast than the newer
iterations of DE's are providing. i.e., the icons in the menu of the
ksysguard_proposed_colors.png are hard on the eyes.
--
Peace,
Greg
Good
point, the current colors are really old style IMO. The proposed
colors looks better, although I would make the writing a little more
visible. Another possibility would be to use a slightly pale background
instead of white. Could you try a few variations and sned them in?
Yes. From the proposed ones, the ones I prefer are either white or window
background gray.
One thing: The horizontal lines and the text has only 1 common color
setting. Also, maybe reverse color (as we see often for the percent text
on a progress bar) could be good for the text, or having the scale text
at the left of the graph, instead of in the graph.
Talking about the scales, I think that for the ram and swap graphs, the
size could be written in GB, not in MB, since modern computers have much
more ram than in the past. Also, when scales doesn't fit mathematically
on a perfect number (as 1/3 = 0,333333333), I think that displaying 2
numbers after the point is enough (as 0,33).
In general though, I think a rework of the
current Ksysguard graph is
what is really needed. The ones from KDE4 and Gnome looks much better.
They look better, and they update the graph faster than 1 time/second, so
it appear to move much more smoothly. Also, with the speed of modern
computer, maybe some info is missed because of the slow update.
By the way, your desktop background looks quite
nice. Is it possible for
you to share it as well?
Of course, here it is:
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Country-Road?content=168594 Cheers
Michele
I also post a picture of the Win 8.1 task manager. While Win is not
always the best OS, I think that Win 8.1 task manager is very well
crafted, and could be inspired from if one day TDE's task manager is to
be redesigned. It shows easily all the info I want to see in a task
manager, separated by sections for ram, cpu, hdd and network, while still
showing a little graph of each one, to see easily what happens with your
system.
Thank you! -Alexandre
10:24 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Different System monitor comparison - New color theme proposed for KSysGuard
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On 02/02/2015 05:25 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Sunday 01 February 2015 10:37:34 pm Michele Calgaro wrote:
Good point. Perhaps it would be better to add "predefined styles" to
KSysGuard, so that the user can easily choose its
preference. What do you think?
Cheers
Michele
On 01/31/2015 11:27 PM, Alexandre wrote:
Thanks!
I think the first version was better, IMO. Let's see if anyone else has any comment,
otherwise I will push that
version. Can you send in the modified files?
Cheers Michele
No real preference, a comment though. I like/need more contrast than the newer iterations
of DE's are providing.
i.e., the icons in the menu of the ksysguard_proposed_colors.png are hard on the eyes.
Good
point, the current colors are really old style IMO. The proposed colors looks better,
although I would
make the writing a little more visible. Another possibility would be to use a slightly
pale background
instead of white. Could you try a few variations and sned them in?
Yes. From the proposed ones, the ones I prefer are either white or window background
gray.
One thing: The horizontal lines and the text has only 1 common color setting. Also, maybe
reverse color (as we
see often for the percent text on a progress bar) could be good for the text, or having
the scale text at the
left of the graph, instead of in the graph.
Talking about the scales, I think that for the ram and swap graphs, the size could be
written in GB, not in MB,
since modern computers have much more ram than in the past. Also, when scales doesn't
fit mathematically on a
perfect number (as 1/3 = 0,333333333), I think that displaying 2 numbers after the point
is enough (as 0,33).
In general though, I think a rework of the
current Ksysguard graph is what is really needed. The ones from
KDE4 and Gnome looks much better.
They look better, and they update the graph faster than 1 time/second, so it appear to
move much more smoothly.
Also, with the speed of modern computer, maybe some info is missed because of the slow
update.
By the way, your desktop background looks quite
nice. Is it possible for you to share it as well?
Of course, here it is:
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Country-Road?content=168594 Cheers
Michele
I also post a picture of the Win 8.1 task manager. While Win is not always the best OS, I
think that Win 8.1
task manager is very well crafted, and could be inspired from if one day TDE's task
manager is to be
redesigned. It shows easily all the info I want to see in a task manager, separated by
sections for ram, cpu,
hdd and network, while still showing a little graph of each one, to see easily what
happens with your system.
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3 Feb
3 Feb
7:11 p.m.
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>> I think the first version was better, IMO.
Let's see if anyone else has any comment, otherwise I will push that
>> version. Can you send in the modified files?
>>
>> Cheers Michele
>
> No real preference, a comment though. I like/need more contrast than the newer
iterations of DE's are providing.
> i.e., the icons in the menu of the ksysguard_proposed_colors.png are hard on the
eyes.
Icons are not part of KSysguard, so there is no need to do this. These are part of the
KFaenza icon theme.
7 Feb
7 Feb
2:35 p.m.
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Hi,
Here is the color file, with a screenshot!
Thank you!
-Alexandre
7:10 p.m.
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Hi,
Here is the color file, with a screenshot!
Thank you!
-Alexandre
I know I'm probably in the minority here, but having used the earliest
versions of Windows (e.g. 3.1 and friends) this feels like a giant
throwback in the color palette. So does Windows 8.
Tim
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9 Feb
9 Feb
12:01 a.m.
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> I know I'm probably in the minority here, but
having used the earliest> versions of Windows (e.g. 3.1 and friends) this feels like a
giant> throwback in the color palette. So does Windows 8.
> Tim
Well well well. Big parts of TDE are giant throwbacks if nothing is done about it... Much
worse than that. Frozen in Win Nt4.
-Alexandre
10:46 p.m.
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On 2015/02/09 09:01 AM, Alexandre wrote:
Probably the best solution is to add theme support for KSysGuard and a
few default themes. Then each user can select the ones he prefers :-)
I will open a bug report for this enhancement as soon as I have some
time for TDE.
Cheers
Michele
> I know I'm probably in the minority here,
but having used the
earliest> versions of Windows (e.g. 3.1 and friends) this
feels
like a giant> throwback in the color palette. So does Windows 8.
> Tim
Well well well. Big parts of TDE are giant throwbacks if nothing is
done about it... Much worse than that. Frozen in Win Nt4.
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10 Feb
10 Feb
10:54 p.m.
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On 02/07/2015 11:35 PM, Alexandre wrote:
Hi,
Here is the color file, with a screenshot!
Thank you! -Alexandre
I have created an enhancement request bug 2366 for adding style support in
KSysGuard. Attached to the bug is the
proposed style.
Cheers
Michele
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