Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (339 mails)

[Karsten König <remur@xxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2011, 15:04:35 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> As everyone probably knows, KPackageKit is the default updater on 11.4 KDE
> systems. At the last KDE IRC meeting I got the action item to check if
> KPackageKit systray icons are "good enough"(tm). My findings are these:
>
> KPK will show the same systray icon to notify about all types of
> patches/updates (security, recommended, optional), and this icon seems to
> be the 'system-software-update' from Oxygen icons - so not included in KPK
> itself. Note: You can easily distinguish between patch types in the KPK UI
> - this is only about the systray icon.
>
> It'll look like this: http://www.opensuse-guide.org/tmp/kpk.png
>
> Personally I can easily accept only one icon for all types of patches - but
> I do think the icon should be a highly visible one that isn't easily
> overlooked. So what can we do?
>
> Option 1:
> ------------------------------
> Do nothing. Accept status quo from upstream. Possibly talk to pinheiro
> and/or dantti about making the icon more "visible" for future releases.
>
> Advantages: No extra work, consistency with other (KPK using) distros like
> Fedora and Kubuntu (I think, haven't tried).
> Disadvantage: "Updates available" icon remains easily overlooked.
>
> Option 2:
> -----------------------
> We could use an icon from kupdateapplet instead:
> http://www.opensuse-guide.org/tmp/kupdateapplet_red.png
> http://www.opensuse-guide.org/tmp/kupdateapplet_yellow.png
>
> Advantage: Highly "visible" icon, consistent with older openSUSE versions.
> Disadvantage: Extra work, not consistent with KDE looks and other distros.
>
> Option 3:
> --------------------
> We could use a different Oxygen icon - which is more craving of attention.
> E.g.:
> http://www.opensuse-guide.org/tmp/emblem-important.png
> http://www.opensuse-guide.org/tmp/security-medium.png
> http://www.opensuse-guide.org/tmp/preferences-desktop-notification-bell.png
> http://www.opensuse-guide.org/tmp/preferences-desktop-notification.png
>
> Advantages: Icon is not overlooked, integrates in the look of KDE
> Disadvantages: Extra work, inconsistent with other distros.

I prefer option 3, but mainly because I think the icons look more kde-ish.
Nuno seems very reluctant to change it to anything visible  
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264051#c1 (link thanks to martin)
Maybe we can get other distributions opinion about the visibility?


Karsten
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