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In the end, it is a community effort. It needs people from the community to contribute. If you think you can do something better, I really encourage you to do s

by wz1000 11y ago

In the end, it is a community effort. It needs people from the community to contribute. If you think you can do something better, I really encourage you to do so.

keithpeter 11y ago
UI design - how would someone with strong views (and experience!) on gestures and UI features but with little coding experience get involved? Just put some mocks somewhere and post them to where the UI team meet? Edit: In fact, where do the people interested in UI design actually meet and make their sausages in KDE? I can't seem to find a central place similar to http://design.canonical.com/ http://design.canonical.com/ There is this gap between having the programming knowledge to 'submit a patch' and other kinds of large scale organisation/design skill. Disclaimer: not me I'm a civilian.
- zanny 11y ago
  https://vdesign.kde.org/ https://vdesign.kde.org/ And the UIs for all this stuff are going to be done in QML, and if you can do HTML and CSS QML is much easier and more intuitive. It puts all the animations, gestures, etc in the QML files and they have a visual designer in QtQuick so you don't actually need to write code at all if you don't want to.
  - keithpeter 11y ago
    Thanks for pointing out that page. I'd not found much but then I was searching for 'user interface testing' &c. "The goal of the KDE VDG is to create a central point for all visual design work – a one-stop for all KDE's visual design needs, if its logo's, icons, visuals, illustrations, launch pages, plasma themes or presentation and promo-material." Above from the 'what' page on that site. Might be just my expectations but I read that Web site as being about branding and visual design rather than UI and workflows. The 'who' page mini-bios do not appear to have anyone from a UI / workflow background - or is it that am I just out of date with the job titles that cover those skills these days? https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability There appears to be a kde-usability group, but their mailing list archive is not public, you have to subscribe. PS: Fedora 22 KDE spin does look really nice in my opinion.
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by wz1000 11y ago

In the end, it is a community effort. It needs people from the community to contribute. If you think you can do something better, I really encourage you to do so.

keithpeter 11y ago

UI design - how would someone with strong views (and experience!) on gestures and UI features but with little coding experience get involved? Just put some mocks somewhere and post them to where the UI team meet? Edit: In fact, where do the people interested in UI design actually meet and make their sausages in KDE? I can't seem to find a central place similar to http://design.canonical.com/ http://design.canonical.com/ There is this gap between having the programming knowledge to 'submit a patch' and other kinds of large scale organisation/design skill. Disclaimer: not me I'm a civilian.

zanny 11y ago
https://vdesign.kde.org/ https://vdesign.kde.org/ And the UIs for all this stuff are going to be done in QML, and if you can do HTML and CSS QML is much easier and more intuitive. It puts all the animations, gestures, etc in the QML files and they have a visual designer in QtQuick so you don't actually need to write code at all if you don't want to.
- keithpeter 11y ago
  Thanks for pointing out that page. I'd not found much but then I was searching for 'user interface testing' &c. "The goal of the KDE VDG is to create a central point for all visual design work – a one-stop for all KDE's visual design needs, if its logo's, icons, visuals, illustrations, launch pages, plasma themes or presentation and promo-material." Above from the 'what' page on that site. Might be just my expectations but I read that Web site as being about branding and visual design rather than UI and workflows. The 'who' page mini-bios do not appear to have anyone from a UI / workflow background - or is it that am I just out of date with the job titles that cover those skills these days? https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability There appears to be a kde-usability group, but their mailing list archive is not public, you have to subscribe. PS: Fedora 22 KDE spin does look really nice in my opinion.

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