KDE Visual Design Group/System Settings Application

Concept

See KDE HIG for guidelines on this design approach.

System Settings Vision

TBD

Personas

(Selected from the pre-defined KDE personas)

• Susan, 34, Recreational user. While Susan seldom uses her computer for work, it has become an essential part of her social life. With her computer, she can be creative and spread this creativity in the world. She chats with her friends, shares music, playlists and other media, creates videos and uploads them to her web space, and runs a blog with her own style. She can't imagine a life without her laptop. Still, she is a fun person and does not want to worry about technical details. She expects her machine to work.

Organization

Command Structure

Two global commands: Search and Help

Content Structure

The forum discussion grouping the kcm modules is here: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=121053

The results of the grouping exercise is below:

UI Patterns

TBD

Layout Design

The VDG forum thread discussing the layout design is here: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=124463

The basic design mockups are below:

Note that the design of the modules in the mockups is NOT important for this exercise. The focus here is the system settings application, not the module designs.