On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 03:54:03 +0200, Andrew Lake <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:37 PM, David Edmundson wrote:
Awesome!
That login theme in nice, and I like the idea of the visual
consistency throughout. I'll have a go at implementing the login stuff
on Monday, maybe the lock screen too as it'll be mostly copy & paste.
Yay!
I have a few things that need adding to the login theme, maybe you can
incorporate them in the mockup?
- Session Choosing (KDE, Gnome, etc.)
- Language selection (English, Deutsch)
- Possibly keyboard layout selection
Here we go:
http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/06/login_with_session_and_language.png
So as I was trying to find a place for the session and language, I tried
to
come up a very rough information model for the visual design:
http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/06/visual_information_model.png
The session and language items show status and also allow you to change
them so I put them in that overlap area (status+action). (I also moved
the
battery info out of that area). Hopefully that provides enough info to
figure out what else could go where.
I also currently need all 4 power options, suspend, shutdown, reboot,
hibernate.
We're happy to supply to those visuals. Between Jens and myself, we'll
have
them for you in a few days.
It would be ideal for me if in future in mockups from the SVG we can
label which SVGs from the Plasma theme are being used where; and if
there's anything new/custom. I think the main horizontal stripe is
new?
Oh yes, good idea. Perhaps just focus primarily on using the plasma theme
colors first (inverted as discussed in my reply to Marco). Something as
simple as that horizontal line shouldn't need much more than the theme
color and the opacity setting. The plasma widget background should work
for
the user pic frames. Other visual assets like icons, I'm not sure where
the
best place for them is: plasma theme icons or system theme icons. Others
are better equipped to make that decision than me. :-) We're happy to
supply all the visual assets for this design though.
Hope this helps,
Andrew
Hi,
this theme looks just great! Really looking forward to be able to use it!
:)
I'd like to add a few points from the internal mechanics point of view:
* Password prompts - there could be more than one at a time in some
corner cases
* Error and information messages - The authentication layer (PAM) sends
some messages to the user occasionally ("User not found" and such)
* Other dialogs - The user is presented with a password change dialog
when his password has expired, I think the login screen should
handle
this too
Other than this, as I'm not (at all) a user interface designer, so just
consider these as my small ideas :). Also I'm not sure if this is the right
place and time to discuss these:
* Wouldn't it be logical to have the keyboard layout (or language?)
selection on the left side of the dialog (to have it close to where
the user will type).
* Also, maybe, have the session selection somewhere close to the Login
button (to indicate something along the lines of "Log into ..." by
positioning them close)?
Cheers,
Martin
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