On Sunday 01 February 2015 10:37:34 pm Michele Calgaro wrote:
> On 01/31/2015 11:27 PM, Alexandre wrote:
> >> Good point, the current colors are really old style IMO. The proposed
> >> colors looks better, although I would make the writing a little more
> >> visible. Another possibility would be to use a slightly pale background
> >> instead of white. Could you try a few variations and sned them in?
> >
> > Yes. From the proposed ones, the ones I prefer are either white or window
> > background gray.
> >
> > One thing: The horizontal lines and the text has only 1 common color
> > setting. Also, maybe reverse color (as we see often for the percent text
> > on a progress bar) could be good for the text, or having the scale text
> > at the left of the graph, instead of in the graph.
> >
> > Talking about the scales, I think that for the ram and swap graphs, the
> > size could be written in GB, not in MB, since modern computers have much
> > more ram than in the past. Also, when scales doesn't fit mathematically
> > on a perfect number (as 1/3 = 0,333333333), I think that displaying 2
> > numbers after the point is enough (as 0,33).
> >
> >> In general though, I think a rework of the current Ksysguard graph is
> >> what is really needed. The ones from KDE4 and Gnome looks much better.
> >
> > They look better, and they update the graph faster than 1 time/second, so
> > it appear to move much more smoothly. Also, with the speed of modern
> > computer, maybe some info is missed because of the slow update.
> >
> >> By the way, your desktop background looks quite nice. Is it possible for
> >> you to share it as well?
> >
> > Of course, here it is:
> > http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Country-Road?content=168594
>
> Thanks!
>
> >> Cheers Michele
> >
> > I also post a picture of the Win 8.1 task manager. While Win is not
> > always the best OS, I think that Win 8.1 task manager is very well
> > crafted, and could be inspired from if one day TDE's task manager is to
> > be redesigned. It shows easily all the info I want to see in a task
> > manager, separated by sections for ram, cpu, hdd and network, while still
> > showing a little graph of each one, to see easily what happens with your
> > system.
> >
> > Thank you! -Alexandre
>
> I think the first version was better, IMO. Let's see if anyone else has any
> comment, otherwise I will push that version. Can you send in the modified
> files?
>
> Cheers
>   Michele

No real preference, a comment though. I like/need more contrast than the newer 
iterations of DE's are providing. i.e., the icons in the menu of the 
ksysguard_proposed_colors.png are hard on the eyes.

-- 
Peace,

Greg