2 Sep
2022
2 Sep
'22
2:56 p.m.
Hey, just wanna start off by saying I love Trinity Desktop, easy to use and fast on a
Pentium 4 with little than a gigabyte of RAM, that's what good coding runs like :D
I was reading https://www.trinitydesktop.org/development.php and noticed one of the listed
things that Trinity needed assistance in was UI design review. What exactly needs to be
reviewed in the terms of UI design? I know people like to say Trinity looks outdated, and
although that is kind of true, the Breeze theme from Q4OS modernizes it quite a bit and
that could be used as a basis for an optional "modernized" theme. (maybe during
setup give the user the choice between the new modern theme and the classic themes)
I own a 16:10 ThinkPad, folding tablet laptop, modern curved 1080p monitor and a 5:4
monitor so it's pretty safe to say I could test all sorts of UI designs and layouts
functionality-wise, but design wise I'll go ahead and say I'm a bit younger and I
still think the KDE 2.x theme looks great, but I'll be open to test and use any sort
of theme if it helps.
I don't code but I am pretty fluent in just generally knowing what good UI/UX looks
and functions like (although I am a bit biased towards the old Windows UI) and can test
many different things on new and old hardware, so if help isn't needed there but
somewhere else please let me know and I'd be glad to help!
- bobsmith
2 Sep
2 Sep
6:30 p.m.
said bobsmith432--- via tde-devels:
| I was reading https://www.trinitydesktop.org/development.php and noticed
| one of the listed things that Trinity needed assistance in was UI design
| review. What exactly needs to be reviewed in the terms of UI design? I
| know people like to say Trinity looks outdated, and although that is
| kind of true, the Breeze theme from Q4OS modernizes it quite a bit and
| that could be used as a basis for an optional "modernized" theme. (maybe
| during setup give the user the choice between the new modern theme and
| the classic themes)
Heaven forfend! KDE got to be the way it is because people wanted to fix
what wasn't broken. TDE resisted this, thank goodness. The TDE UI is just
fine. There's nothing outdated about it. There is a difference between
style and fashion: fashion is what's popular at the moment, while style is
eternal. TDE has style.
Instead of doing a retread of the GUI, better that someone cook up a simple
app -- simple being the operative word -- for creating themes. Then those
who think TDE is outdated could make it look as fashionable as they want.
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9:26 p.m.
On 2022-09-02 13:30:35 dep wrote:
Instead of doing a retread of the GUI, better that
someone cook up a simple
app -- simple being the operative word -- for creating themes. Then those
who think TDE is outdated could make it look as fashionable as they want.
--
dep
Here, here!
Leslie
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Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.12
tde-config: 1.0
9:37 p.m.
J Leslie Turriff composed on 2022-09-02 16:26 (UTC-0500):
On 2022-09-02 18:30:35 UTC+0000 dep wrote:
> Instead of doing a retread of the GUI, better that
someone cook up a simple
> app -- simple being the operative word -- for creating themes. Then those
> who think TDE is outdated could make it look as fashionable as they want.
Here, here!
+1
Functionality rules!
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based on faith, not based on science.
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Felix Miata
3 Sep
3 Sep
1:54 a.m.
On 2022/09/02 11:56 PM, bobsmith432--- via tde-devels wrote:
Hey, just wanna start off by saying I love Trinity
Desktop, easy to use and fast on a Pentium 4 with little than a gigabyte of RAM,
that's what good coding runs like :D
I was reading https://www.trinitydesktop.org/development.php and noticed one of the
listed things that Trinity needed assistance in was UI design review. What exactly needs
to be reviewed in the terms of UI design? I know people like to say Trinity looks
outdated, and although that is kind of true, the Breeze theme from Q4OS modernizes it
quite a bit and that could be used as a basis for an optional "modernized"
theme. (maybe during setup give the user the choice between the new modern theme and the
classic themes)
I own a 16:10 ThinkPad, folding tablet laptop, modern curved 1080p monitor and a 5:4
monitor so it's pretty safe to say I could test all sorts of UI designs and layouts
functionality-wise, but design wise I'll go ahead and say I'm a bit younger and I
still think the KDE 2.x theme looks great, but I'll be open to test and use any sort
of theme if it helps.
I don't code but I am pretty fluent in just generally knowing what good UI/UX looks
and functions like (although I am a bit biased towards the old Windows UI) and can test
many different things on new and old hardware, so if help isn't needed there but
somewhere else please let me know and I'd be glad to help!
- bobsmith
Hi Bob,
first of all, welcome to TDE and the mailing list!
Not sure where that comment about "UI design review" came from, it may be quite
dated (and yes, some pages on the
website are very old...). My take of it is that it means "going through the TDE UI
and look for things to fix up", like
missing icons, wrong menu entries, graphic inconsistency and so on. Quite a bit of work
has been done in recent years to
clean up the TDE UI, but happy for you to go through and report problems on TGW
(https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea).
TDE UI is unlikely to be totally changed, nevertheless we have added some new themes in
recent times and if we have time
(or volunteers) we are happy to add more choices for the users.
Cheers
Michele
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