My gut feeling always makes me avoid QtGraphicalEffects where possible, ie. a plain Rectangle; especially because the latter doesn't use a ShaderEffectItem (2d renderer)

One line each pls

visible: image.status !== Image.Ready (or at least fix the second condition)

You don't position that thing according to screen geometry

Not needed I think

That can be imported through org.kde.plasma.workspace.components 2.0

Use an Instantiator and use addMenuItem in the onObjectAdded handler (see docs)

Can we maybe have a question mark dummy face or so here? I think we even had that in the mockups.
The fields look so lost without it

That message never disappears automatically.
If not with a timer, at least when I switch to a different user and/or toggle searching it should.

if (length === 0) return

and then do the other checks separately

To me it wasn't immediately obvious that this button brought me back to the user overview.

Can this view be defaulted through some settings btw?

I don't like having 5 buttons in the bottom row, can we make that a "Leave" button with a menu like the other buttons?

Can I have a date, too?

Instantiator

What an effort for a... circle :D With a gradient

Isn't this Accessible.onPressAction?

Schweinsteiger ;)

I just go with the design.
I could stick in a 1000x1 px png instead?

I wanted to exclude .Loading. You're right I should fix it though

actually I do, it's the gradient that's wrong.

It is as PreserveAspectStretch overflows.
I could make it a conditional on that though. Will be faster and self documenting.

Not sure I can.
That's QtQml 2.2 - which is Qt5.6

I cursed a lot about having to go about this silly way

oh wow. ... it used to be this in QtQml1 - and this has been copied all the way from that LightDM code

...that's even longer!

Rectangle still allows Gradient with GradientStop, just that the gradient can only be top to bottom which is what we want here anyway.

According to Qt git it was added on 2013-03-20 and I'm pretty sure I've used it a while ago.
In fact, we use it already in plasma-framework in the MonthMenu (I also thought I ported the ModelContextMenu to it put apparently I didn't).

are we sure that one is implemented with a software renderer?

It works with QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL=1

The 2D renderer RectangleNode just uses QLinearGradient on a QBrush internally.