On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Andrew Lake <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > After reading Aaron's nearly year old blog entry again this week > (http://aseigo.blogspot.de/2013/05/visual-harmony-in-plasma-workspaces-2.html) > , especially the following quote: > >> ...the log out dialog still has things that look like little push buttons >> and it still has inexplicable >> picture on the left, despite now being written in QML and having all the >> power that implies. >> >> Plasma Workspaces 2 is our opportunity to improve these parts by >> harmonizing and modernizing >> them. The log out interface ought to look like it belongs with the lock >> screen; the log in screen >> ought to mesh with the splash screen... >> >>We have a couple people who can do this kind of work, but they have lots on >> their plate already. >>This is a great opportunity for someone with a flair for design to get >> involved... > > I put a little effort into identifying a visual design that might get us a > little bit closer. I apologize that I don't have any idea what work may have > already been put into this area, so please don't take my ignorance as a > dismissal of any work that has already occurred. I also shared this design > with other members of the Visual Design Group and there were no objections > to offering these designs here. > > Anyway here goes: > Login: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/05/login_mockup.png > Logout: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/03/logout_mockup.png > Unlock: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/05/unlock_mockup.png > Shutdown: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/04/03/shutdown_mockup2_1.png > > We're happy to provide any visual assets required, which shouldn't be much. > (We already have a few to choose from). I won't speak to architecture since > that's your wheelhouse, but my assumption is that the UI layer could be > handled by the same QML package with enough hooks for the various existing > underlying functionality to use. I would like to have offered up a QML > package with this, but it's early days yet for my QML familiarity (but > getting better fast). :-) > > Hope this is helpful and please let me know if there are any questions, > Andrew Lake > Community designer in the KDE Visual Design Group
That is a flat design i actually like :) The 3 buttons on the right (logout, shutdown and restart) look a bit weird though. Logout is fine, but shutdown and restart look too much alike. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
