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- Plasma Board
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- Aaron, Sandro and Frederik
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- ASCII icon theme
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- it-s and Ivan
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- Lancelot Debugging
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- Albrecht Dürer house
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- Aaron and Sebas karaoke
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- it-s and Savago karaoke
more tokamak photos
March 1st, 2010Plasma and QGesture*
February 24th, 2010Plasma has support for mulitouch events but for some reasons I can’t get any QGestureEvent, does anyone have any idea about why QGesture doesn’t work with Plasma?
It seems that QGestureRecognizers can receive QEvent::TouchBegin but they can’t receive QEvent::TouchUpdate or QEvent::TouchEnd.
Any idea?
tokamak
February 24th, 2010
Plasma Web Browser and WebKit
February 21st, 2010Recently I’ve been working on the web browser plasmoid and since yesterday it’s possible to use it like a complete stand alone browser (with advanced rendering capabilities thanks to QtWebKit), moreover Plasma::WebView has been recently ported to KGraphicsWebView so it has KDE integration too.
The summary of recent changes is:
- Plasma::WebView does the same (and better) with less lines of code.
- Plasma::WebView uses now a KDE integrated WebKit.
- Web Browser now supports windows (with overlays).
- The progress bar has been replaced with a ProgressComboBox (like rekonq).
By the end of the tokamak plasma will provided to users a complete web experience.
tokamak 4
February 21st, 2010
designing good user interfaces (2 – Removing Useless Clutter)
November 2nd, 2009
Useless clutter
Less clutter
The groupbox in the first UI is completely useless and it only adds more clutter for free, so it has been removed in the second UI. What we get is a less cluttered UI and every widget is grouped by the tabwidget.
designing good user interfaces (1 – Label Alignment)
October 31st, 2009
Bad Label Alignment
Good Label Alignment
The first UI has a wrong label alignment (KDE 3.x alignment), while the second UI has the right label alignment (KDE 4.x alignment).
HIG on techbase
designing good user interfaces (0)
October 29th, 2009
Example of a bad ui layout.
Example of a good ui layout.
The first UI (the bad one) has a complex grid layout which is cluttered and confused, while the second UI has a better layout which looks like a book page that can be read easily from left to right and from top to bottom.
The second UI uses more vertical space, but we must not forget that one of our primary goals is to provide usable UIs.
Moving things to the right place
August 29th, 2009Yesterday I’ve moved desktop theme configuration from Desktop Settings to System Settings style module. Now Desktop Settings dialog looks less cluttered.
New system settings/style desktop theme configuration tab
Now I’m still working on Desktop Settings dialog and I will continue to improve it.
Next step is to add categories to wallpaper settings.
tokamak 3 (day 0) :)
August 29th, 2009It has been a long time since my last update…
I’ve been away for a long time due to several reasons (including school exams) but now I’m here in Swiss.
Now I’m in an amazing place with stunning views and fresh. I will post more things about this tokamak later.