KDE Visual Design Group/2015-02-22 Meeting Minutes

Participants

Andrew, Andreas, Phillip, Andy, Heiko, Thomas

Agenda

• Plasma sprint round up
• The forums
• Around the “room”

Discussed

• We need to flesh out guidelines on good/bad DWD control usage before DWD is introduced/widely adopted Breeze Dark colors window titlebar has the same contrast as the background so it’s difficult to see edges.
  • technical bug
  • https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344380
  • https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=125054
  • consider contrasting titlebar
  • double contrast on the edges
• explore https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=125071&p=329860#p329860
• OSD and notifications integration into the lockscreen https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=124783
  • notes app
  • https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338828 remember this too
  • security implications of exposing notifications
• Tried to find a developer to make more standard components e.g. search bar, tabs etc.
  • no one found yet
• (Phil) working on Parley still. Will have no time for statistics redesign
• AI: Andrew will proposed resolved system settings design to forum for the plasma team
• AI: Heiko will make a proposal for the see-as-well feature
• AI: Andrew will meet with Thomas to discuss how to present Desktop Configuration strawman to Plasma team.
• AI: Andrew will schedule next meeting on a weekday 7pm or later CET