Re: Letting users customize the default background on PMC homescreen (Was: Re: Ideas Critical to PMC)
On Tuesday 25 February 2014 10:48:47 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: Hi Harshit, First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, it is a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly related (this is popularly known as hacking others' threads :P) To the topic, I personally don't think it is a good idea to let the user change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this is that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visual inconsistency. I'll love to hear from others' views on this, especially our Usability folks. Hi Harshit, hi Shantanu, from a usability perspective, changing the background of a UI isn't a no-go, but it has to be handled with care. The most important thing is that to avoid bad contrast, every other element of the UI has to have a standard-color background on top of the user-selected background. You'd have to try that out (black background behind every UI element, probably with a few pixels around the actual element) and see whether it a) looks good b) leaves enough of the background visible to make sense at all I agree with Shantanu that without background behind the other elements, we could end up with unreadable, unrecognizable or completely invisible elements with the wrong background. CC'ing Jens to hear what he may have to say from a design perspective. Cheers, Thomas ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Re: Letting users customize the default background on PMC homescreen (Was: Re: Ideas Critical to PMC)
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer colo...@autistici.orgwrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2014 10:48:47 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: Hi Harshit, First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, it is a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly related (this is popularly known as hacking others' threads :P) To the topic, I personally don't think it is a good idea to let the user change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this is that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visual inconsistency. I'll love to hear from others' views on this, especially our Usability folks. Hi Harshit, hi Shantanu, from a usability perspective, changing the background of a UI isn't a no-go, but it has to be handled with care. The most important thing is that to avoid bad contrast, every other element of the UI has to have a standard-color background on top of the user-selected background. You'd have to try that out (black background behind every UI element, probably with a few pixels around the actual element) and see whether it a) looks good b) leaves enough of the background visible to make sense at al +1 , Nice idea in case we want to go for user customized background -- http://www.sinny.in ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Letting users customize the default background on PMC homescreen (Was: Re: Ideas Critical to PMC)
Hi Harshit, First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, it is a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly related (this is popularly known as hacking others' threads :P) To the topic, I personally don't think it is a good idea to let the user change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this is that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visual inconsistency. I'll love to hear from others' views on this, especially our Usability folks. Cheers, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Harshit Agarwal see.hars...@gmail.comwrote: This is not exactly a critical idea, but I would like the opinion of people working in this project before deciding upon it's implementation. Does the Plasma Media Center needs to have changing backgrounds? We can implement it as an option (user-select) in the settings menu. Regards, Harshit Agarwal. 3rd Year, Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. Ph. No.: +91-8942031165 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:07 AM, R.Harish Navnit harishnav...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all, I was unfortunate not to be there with you all for the conf.kde.in, which as I've been hearing was a huge success. I feel really gutted about the same. I'd have so dearly loved to have attended a few workshops on programming with Qt and KDE API's(if there were any). But another important thing that was mentioned to me was that during the conf.kde.in the ideas critical to PMC would be mentioned. I hope that there has been some resolution on the same. I'm starting this thread, hoping to hear some of the ideas that you may have. It'd be great if someone could spread some light on the current scenario on regarding the same. Maybe the next critical Idea stems from this thread :) Warm Regards. Thanking You, R.Harish Navnit The Enigma http://harishnavnit.wordpress.com ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel -- Shantanu Tushar(UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Re: Letting users customize the default background on PMC homescreen (Was: Re: Ideas Critical to PMC)
Apologies. I wasn't aware of the thread hacking act. My rationale behind changing the background is to enable the user to customize the Media Center to his/her own will. If they see something which is customized as their own, they would automatically spend more time on it, thus using and depending upon it's features more. A better alternative for achieving the same goal is most welcome! Regards, Harshit Agarwal. 3rd Year, Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. Ph. No.: +91-8942031165 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Shantanu Tushar Jha shant...@kde.orgwrote: Hi Harshit, First of all, just a note, whenever you have a new thing to discuss, it is a bad idea to reply to an existing thread which is not directly related (this is popularly known as hacking others' threads :P) To the topic, I personally don't think it is a good idea to let the user change the background of the media center. The rationale behind this is that the background is part of our UI so changing it can lead to visual inconsistency. I'll love to hear from others' views on this, especially our Usability folks. Cheers, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Harshit Agarwal see.hars...@gmail.comwrote: This is not exactly a critical idea, but I would like the opinion of people working in this project before deciding upon it's implementation. Does the Plasma Media Center needs to have changing backgrounds? We can implement it as an option (user-select) in the settings menu. Regards, Harshit Agarwal. 3rd Year, Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. Ph. No.: +91-8942031165 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:07 AM, R.Harish Navnit harishnav...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I was unfortunate not to be there with you all for the conf.kde.in, which as I've been hearing was a huge success. I feel really gutted about the same. I'd have so dearly loved to have attended a few workshops on programming with Qt and KDE API's(if there were any). But another important thing that was mentioned to me was that during the conf.kde.in the ideas critical to PMC would be mentioned. I hope that there has been some resolution on the same. I'm starting this thread, hoping to hear some of the ideas that you may have. It'd be great if someone could spread some light on the current scenario on regarding the same. Maybe the next critical Idea stems from this thread :) Warm Regards. Thanking You, R.Harish Navnit The Enigma http://harishnavnit.wordpress.com ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel -- Shantanu Tushar(UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
