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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org