https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462584
--- Comment #2 from Eduardo Correia <eduardosare...@gmail.com> --- Created attachment 154360 --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=154360&action=edit KDE and Windows 11 quick comparison screen shots for reference Added two screen shots (together in a single image) from both KDE and Windows 11 just for reference about this, taken on the same monitor with the same resolution (3440x1440) and in the same hardware (both installed to disk, dual-boot). Notice the difference in position of the volume/brightness fly-out/pop-up in the Y-axis and also the lack of contrast of the KDE one. While the Windows 11 one might not be perfect, the KDE one being so high in the screen makes it cover any content that's being displayed and sometimes gets a bit annoying. When you change the volume you have to literally wait and wish for this fly-out to "get out of the way" as quickly as possible because it is actually covering what you are working on. In Windows it can cover content, but it's so down there in the screen that it very rarely gets annoying, while the KDE one almost always is. In the KDE screen shot, Plasma is using a color theme picked from my wallpaper, but this lack of contrast happens with a lot of lightly-colored wallpapers. As a fix we could take idea from Windows about making the container of the "progress bar" much darker (see windows screen shot) so it gives better contrast against the filled part of the bar, and this might be enough to fix it. Making the bar a solid color instead of an outline with a lighter fill might also help, but I can understand that this might go against KDE design philosophy, where certain things usually have an outline. Finally, about the icons, we can also compare both screen shots and notice that maybe the KDE volume icon on that fly-out is a bit too big, and maybe also the number/percentage text. And as a bonus, another suggestion is that we could maybe smoothly animate the progress bar going up or down with an "ease-out", horizontally . Currently it just "teleports" from each volume step to the next and while this is a very small detail it can help make the whole KDE experience feel more fluid in the end. The icon already smoothly changes (fades) from each state which is awesome! Maybe also while we are at it, make the percentage number animate going to the next volume step by going up/down by 1% quickly. Changing from 50% to 55% could very quickly make the numbers go 50>51>52>53>54>55%. Now I'm just throwing ideas into the air, as a developer myself (though I don´t know C++ or QML to help you guys, maybe some day) I know some things are extremely hard to make, so it's absolutely fine if some of these suggestions are not really worth the time they take. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
