-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 02/02/2015 05:25 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > > 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. > Good point. Perhaps it would be better to add "predefined styles" to KSysGuard, so that the user can easily choose its preference. What do you think? Cheers Michele -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUz/kbAAoJECp1t8qK3tXPSncP/2/1UU14B2mEFLKX61RM5081 wLotfSSf5yopZvb59ONJh/xGPv156Va9URUJUp4HQB9nMvNzF+UGco0vVLuLU2g+ Mx8BW4naPY5FXENzmXVmswo+lO0Co6vqELrT6FhnnBX7glT2rwwf5oxTkPhNc49h VyzqlvknnjzN3OJdi7uphoofVTJ154KogYWwpGa1XyI+kPdS8U5g/DyqskkcxzJ7 Ar1jS8ZwRgfULMWRdvDPG1QHa7yZh246Wd0gKleLpmtpKbC7Sl0DospPqSoIGnTs z5xlyIRWGS811PWutay3/Cf0+Poo7B1ojrEh83u83HvEmRCStDIr55WjCyg4+ray AoSigOtnxbwm8zd98C7Nnj9HldrDyK/i/CyHPEaMvxKd2P4HfH6BCPeeIoRgaKws da1GVXAh+lmCfxt/vC0gUH903ETquEIcWN29k30ewq6BJp7Li8NC4NTzg6VRkqfv MnVHuGJoUKEfSPplPRilwmxIgk2xWCMrh7YeVayVF9lm5Fo9AcyTLMvFf/TwpNIz sRqBfU+qZ0JssxWDT0YxtQ78AQbPEg6nkP+Tt+oJwqmBwgodr0p+KcAcA0y2qrPc CGUAXUYYk3+PbHe3xxxI7xdZ/5uImcI7YKvvqG0y/u3jrLoipoWqgloruf3ihb9B c1I0e4T1QF/uI2/JsYhQ =4AaS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----