On Tuesday 09 September 2014 10:33:22 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dilluns, 8 de setembre de 2014, a les 23:31:52, Anton Kreuzkamp > va > > escriure: > > Hi, > > > > on the VDG forum there has been a discussion about improving the > > design of "sidebars" > > (https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=120006). Meant are > > the sidebars that allow navigating between application pages, > > namely KPageView. > > > > The idea is to remove the border and the white background, so > > that the list is drawn onto the window-background directly. > > > > The implementation of this is rather easy, it's basically setting > > two flags in the constructor of KPageListView, resp. > > KPageTreeView. > > > > The result is this: > > http://wstaw.org/m/2014/09/04/frameless-sidebar-oxygen.png > > > > When using a tree view, it's like this: > > http://wstaw.org/m/2014/09/04/frameless-sidebar-oxygen-tree.png > > > > What's your opinion regarding this? > > I think that the white background better and it's what lists have > been doing for a long time. > > Is there any UX/design rationale of why removing the background is > better than having it?
Additionally, removing the frame is not a good idea, because the frame separates the scrollable(!) contents of the list from the background, in other words, they are not at the same (z-axis) layer. Christoph Feck (kdepepo)
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