> On June 25, 2012, 11:48 a.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > First of all thanks for a perfect review request! That's how they all 
> > should be done ;)
> > 
> > As for the change - I'm not in favor. Truth is that the bold font looks 
> > bad, but the italics looks a bit worse for my eyes. I'd like to do two 
> > things here - Nikita, please add Usability group in the review groups. To 
> > all others - try brainstorming some ideas here how we can separate these 
> > (do we need it at all?).
> 
> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     As far as I can tell the custom presence messages still include a status 
> such as "Away" or "Busy"?
>     So we could add a custom delegate to the combobox to have it in two-rows. 
> A bigger icon on the left and the generic term as heading and if available a 
> custom subtitle below it. Similar to e.g. Plasma does for the Wallpaper 
> Plugin.
>     See here: http://privat.broulik.de/plasmacustomdelegate.png
>     I think in this example the bold font doesn’t look bad at all. It just 
> looks out of place if the font size is the regular dialog font size.

That looks good, thanks for the idea!

> the custom presence messages still include a status such as "Away" or "Busy"

Nope, the "Away", "Busy" etc is replaced by the custom presence message itself, 
see the "After" screenshot above.

> So we could add a custom delegate to the combobox to have it in two-rows

I think this would be really nice. Anyone interested in doing a mockup/stealing 
that code and putting presences in it?


- Martin


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On June 25, 2012, 7:10 a.m., Nikita Skovoroda wrote:
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> (Updated June 25, 2012, 7:10 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Telepathy.
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> The bold font looks bad, especially if there is no custom presences (then 
> almost all variants are bold).
> 
> Changes done by the patch:
> 1) global-presence-chooser.cpp — make special presences italic.
> 2) presence-model.cpp — make presences without status message not bold.
> 3) presence-model.cpp — make presences with status message italic.
> 
> This replaces «normal» font with «italic», and «bold» with «normal» in the 
> presence shooser.
> 
> Looks better to me.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   global-presence-chooser.cpp 6729f51 
>   presence-model.cpp 72bfc3d 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Does not break anything. The result is on the screenshots.
> 
> This does not break visual separation of different status groups, when there 
> are a lot of custom presences (the bold entries separated them) — they can be 
> easily distingushed thanks to the icons.
> 
> 
> Screenshots
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> 
> Before
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/s/608/
> After
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/s/609/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nikita Skovoroda
> 
>

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