I love the gear idea. There was a time when KDE had a bouncing cursor that was a gear, but it jumped instead of spin. The spinning seems much better and better branding for the DE. Maybe Plasma 6?

I proposed a change to this structure long ago, I believe it might be good to consider and organize. Maybe also we can offer more than one way to find things as SySe is launched. For reference, here is what I made,

Love it! Move forward!

"To reduce eye strain, Night Color makes the colors on the screen warmer at the time of your choosing"

+1 on visuals!

How does this look?

In T10891#187868, @ngraham wrote:

In T10891#187828, @mglb wrote:

As for colors, making primary/selection color a bit darker would be awesome. White text on plasma blue has low contrast.
Alternatively, the text color can be changed to black, but this doesn't look so cool.

This is probably a pretty easy fix that we could get in very quickly. Personally I'm partial to the more subtle pastel blue used for Plasma selection highlights and as the background for the informational KMessageWidget/Kirigami InlineMessage messages, where the text stays black. As another bonus, adopting this color would reduce the unnecessary visual distinctiveness between Plasma and KDE apps.

In T10201#187910, @alex-l wrote:

@ngraham After thinking better, I think you're right but I also think that such a large title bar contributes a lot to making users hate server-side decorations. I can't think of any solution apart from making it more useful with tabs like in the Plasma Sets mockup.

+1 on visuals

+1 on principle. Many of these color themes are old and unmaintained.

We might need to add some padding so the button frame doesn't overlay content on the background

In D21622#475230, @ngraham wrote:

+1 to what? The patch's current change, or what we're still discussing? :)

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+1 on visuals

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Would it be "too" crazy to want the checkboxes background to be white? I think they bring nice contrast to the page and sets the checkbox apart.

I don't see a huge visual difference, so it seems good. Do we know if this would look bad in any other apps or situations?

In T10891#185961, @onvitaik wrote:

Since I saw those crude mockups, I've been changing it with the suggestions I wanted to make plus others. It takes some pages taken from how other DEs do their things and some of my own preferences, while at least still trying to not deviate too wildly from the Plasma look. I've also combined it with some suggested changes to the current system settings application.

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(Text is a bit cut off at the end. It meant to say "as changes would be applied immediately")

Most of the reasons for the changes are to the side of the mockup. I wanted to include some other comments, like how child areas need to look more distinct from their parents (It was one of the linked reddit post's complaints: https://i.imgur.com/sJ0zE6b.png), but for now...

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In D21312#467791, @lavender wrote:

In D21312#467698, @ngraham wrote:

+1 for restoring the feature, which is very useful! I've wanted this myself many times, so thanks for submitting this! However I'll admit I'm not super thrilled about having the capacity indicator bar always visible. I can't quite put my finger on why, but something about it feels a bit off. Maybe that's why the original only appeared on hover? But that's problematic in an era where we need to be designing for touch-friendliness. Maybe it could be a pie chart to the right of the icon but left of the text? Or maybe it's fine as-is and I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud.

Either way, adding VDG for comment.

I agree that there's something off about it - to me it is the fact that it's a lot of visual clutter that does not give actionable information. It relies on the user knowing how big the volumes are because for example a 90% filled bar is very different to someone with a 100 GiB volume than someone with a 1TiB volume. I don't have any data on this but I have a feeling most people don't care about how full all their volumes are until it hinders them so how I suggest we do it is for it to stay out of the user's way until the volumes are almost full, when there is a reason to present the information and possible actions the user can take.

Or at least vastly reduce how much attention it grabs because it could just be me but it distracts from reading the volume labels, I imagine it can get draining if you have to scan through a lot to find the one you want.

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I love this idea visually. I would even say that if you enable this on the sidebar, that maybe it should not repeat itself on the bottom bar on the same window.

Would it be possible in this evolution to explore more streamlined spin boxes? I have always felt, our current version mixes the control with the content and it would probably be cooler to have them look separate. Maybe more like this:

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I agree with this on principle. A feature that is perceived as perfect and immutable is a feature that becomes part of history. If we don't have the attitude of wanting to reiterate on our past work, then we are as good as dead as a developer. Nate has provided clear examples of good outcomes in the face of change. Martin has decided to shut down the idea outright with maybes and what ifs. I feel we should talk about UX in this regard and weed out potential risks, but never stop innovating.

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In T10891#184137, @ngraham wrote:

In T10891#184134, @abetts wrote:

In T10891#184133, @ngraham wrote:

Thanks! Which concerns would those be, exactly? Is there anything here you'd like to see changed?

I think the main one is how things will interact in a tiled window environment. If there is a solution for that, then let's keep going.

If you're referring to some of the concerns that came up in the "turning off the borders" discussion, see D13284#461617 and T8707#184088. To make a long story short, I don't think there are any blockers. Everything still works fine with window tiling and borders off.

In T10891#184133, @ngraham wrote:

Thanks! Which concerns would those be, exactly? Is there anything here you'd like to see changed?

Looking good! Keep it up. Please address the concerns so that we can ship a good evolution.

Love it!

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What about @camiloh ? Camilo is a designer by training. He has great visual taste.

I don't want to be a judge because I want to participate in the contest. If you feel that I should be a judge anyway, let me know.

In T10875#183830, @ngraham wrote:

I accept the nomination. :) I think we might want to strive to have an odd number of judges so that in the event of a lack of unanimity, we can revert to majority rule.

In T10875#183812, @paulb wrote:

Four members is okay, don't you think? We should make sure @abetts and @ngraham are okay with this before confirming we have a jury

In T10855#183713, @GB_2 wrote:

We should do further discussion in T10875.

Food for thought, do we want to have requirements as to what the final image should be like? SVG, PNG, JPG? Resolutions?

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Done!

In T10628#183496, @duffus wrote:

Looking better, a few more things

1. page 2 header looks like it is missing the end of it?
   • AKADEMY IS THE ANNUAL GATHERING OF THE KDE COMMUNITY. KDE IS ONE OF THE LARGEST FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITIES WITH MORE THAN 1800 CONTRIBUTORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
   • "KDE community" should have an uppercase C
2. page 8 item 2 line 5: tTeam shouldn't have the lowercase t (leftover from the change tracking I think)
3. page 9 "Additional Opportunities": the text from the odt hasn't been copied and the list should be
   • Coffee Break Sponsor
   • Lunch Sponsor
   • Welcome Event Sponsor
   • Social Event Sponsor
   • Day Trip Sponsor
4. page 9: the email address still has the extra trailing "-"
   
   Thanks

Ok everyone, here is a new version. I used the recommended text provided by Paul and applied the latest changes requested by Kenny. Please review. @paulb if new changes are required, we will need the Scribus version you're working on instead of the version I am working with. My version is just temporary to get the brochure out faster.

In T10628#183456, @paulb wrote:

@abetts there is a new version of the text in Promo Team Resources/Akademy/2019/Sponsors/Brochure/. It is called Promo akademy-sponsorship-brochure-2019_AB_PB_ID_KD.odt. It is very similar to the other one, but has @duffus 's corrections.

In T10628#183478, @duffus wrote:

Some more observation from the last PDF

• The title page should probably not have "Sponsorship Opportunities 1" on it?
• Page 4, "Save the date! Akademy 2019 07-13 of September at University of Milan-Bicocca in" looks truncated? If it just says in Milan and space is short we can probably remove that at the end?
• Some of the headings have full stops at the end which isn't normal. @paulb also agrees they shouldn't

In T10628#183388, @duffus wrote:

The page 9 media issues should just be removed from the brochure and remove fair trade from coffee breaks

In T10628#183415, @paulb wrote:

I used the text I received from Paul.

That is not correct. As per your own words:

For this, I went to the 2018 brochure that was in the promo materials page in Nextcloud.

The text I asked you to use is in Share at https://share.kde.org/s/jrwMJ9b2GBWFj92 (akademy-sponsorship-brochure-2019_AB_PB_ID.odt) and was re-written, edited and proofread by @skadinna and myself. It solves many of the problems pointed out by @duffus and I am attaching it here also just in case.

akademy-sponsorship-brochure-2019_AB_PB_ID.odt20 KBDownload

We posted the final version of the text for you on Share on the 22nd of March. Revise your Matrix logs of that day and you will see I sent you the message advising you of the availability of the text at 12:26 CEST.

In T10628#183388, @duffus wrote:

The page 9 media issues should just be removed from the brochure and remove fair trade from coffee breaks

In T10628#183385, @duffus wrote:

In T10628#183330, @abetts wrote:

April 29th Version

Sponsorship Brochure - Akademy2019.pdf16 MBDownload

Does this also deal with @paulb comment about the text?

In T10628#183298, @paulb wrote:

I am curious to know where the texts for this version of the brochure came from. Page 3, for example, does not show the text @skadinna and I updated and shared on Share and it contains errors that are not in last year's brochure.

@paulb Can the Promo team help with some of these tasks above and let me know what should go in the brochure? @duffus might need to coordinate with the team.

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April 29th Version

• page 1 use English: Milano > Milan
• page 2: url should have 2019 at end?
• page 2: url should be https to look more professional
• page 2: url doesn't work when clicking for me?
• page 3 column 1 paragraph 3 line 5: Sources > Source
• page 3 column 1 paragraph 3 line 5: on > in
• page 3 column 2 paragraph 1 line 3: why is this specifying just games & utilities rather than most programs? (Not sure what it should be here. Let's ping Promo!
• page 3 column 2 paragraph 2 line 1: will allow > allows (it actually was missing a "to". It was referencing Kirigami as "it".
• page 3 column 2 paragraph 4: url isn't clickable
• page 4 column 2 not top aligned with column 1
• page 4 column 1 paragraph 2: ruphy previously pointed out population should be 1.5M
• page 4 column 1 paragraph 3: should probably be changed similar to the dot story? (Let's ping Promo)
• page 4 column 1 paragraph 4: as previously suggested should we not mention Redhat as well as SUSE? (Let's ping Promo)
• page 4 column 1 paragraph 4: should we also be listing any of the potential Local Sponsors from a tactical point of view? (Let's ping Promo)
• page 4 column 2 paragraph 2: university > University
• page 4 column 2 paragraph 2: its also accessible by tram and train, maybe just say public transport? (I agree)
• page 5 should the bottom of the columns be aligned? (I was able to, at least, make the second column look longer than the first)
• page 5 column 2 line 2: an > and
• page 8 column 1 line 1: should the first KDE e.V. really have also a second . for the end of sentence? I've never seen that before (You're right, https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/periods.asp)
• page 8 item 3 line 2 & line 5: sponsor > Sponsor
• page 8 item 6 line 1: organizer > Organizer
• page 8 item 6 line 2: sponsor > Sponsor
• page 8 item 8 line 5: sponsor > Sponsor
• page 8 item 8 line 5: conference > Akademy
• page 8 item 10 line 1: sponsor > Sponsor
• page 8 item 12 line 5: sponsor > Sponsor
• page 9 benefits table, "Network event with KDE Board": KDE > KDE e.V.
• page 9 benefits table, "Logo on badge insert with conference schedule" should be below "Logo on front face of conference badge or lanyard"
• page 9 benefits table, "* Lanyard option is first come, first serve": serve > served
• page 9 benefits table, "* Lanyard option is first come, first serve": add "at Sponsors cost"
• page 9 email: Akademy-sponsoring@kde.org > akademy-sponsoring@kde.org
• page 9 Media partners: we don't have a conference programme (What should be the action here?)
• page 9 We haven't had a press room for a few years? (What should be the action here?)
• page 9 Additional Opportunities: are we actually able to offer Fair Trade coffee? (What should be the action here?)
• page 9 Additional Opportunities: cocktails > Social Event
• page 10 use English: Milano > Milan
• page 10: the form doesn't seem to work? (Should it work if all people just seem to scan the form and send back?)
• page 10: every year sponsors always just scan and email the form to us so we should probably just list akademy-sponsoring@kde.org there as well
• page 10: alignment of "Please review the terms and conditions on the previous page before completing this form." looks strange as its is aligned with the header, which nothing else is
• page 10: address is old

In T10628#183217, @duffus wrote:

I only see a link to a PDF from Monday?

In D20851#456936, @ngraham wrote:

In D20851#456932, @abetts wrote:

I agree with this too. Do you think it would be too weird of other methods are used? For example:

• Use a more legible font that is independent from system font
• Use current system font 1 or 2 points bigger

I don't think those would help. A part of the problem is that the label isn't on top; other things are on top of it. Just moving it to the top would help, The other part of the problem is that we need some way to ensure that the text has contrast with its background. It's a variant of the exact same problem we always have when we have text or icons floating on top of an arbitrary background. Every time we encounter this, the only feasible solution we have ever found is to give the text a background or a shadow.

In D20851#456931, @ngraham wrote:

Well, I find it almost impossible to read the text with the status quo version when there are a bunch of window outlines. In the first screenshot you can see that the number "1" is actually almost invisible. I'm open to suggestions for alternative ways to improve this.

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In D20851#456903, @ndavis wrote:

To me, the white text with the shadows doesn't really improve legibility and just looks "off". For some reason, shadow behind small text messes with my eyes and makes it harder to focus on the actual text.

In T10628#183014, @paulb wrote:

Yeah. I am tied up in the annual report right now, but as soon as I get through that, sure. I'd enjoy the challenge, too.

In T10628#182989, @paulb wrote:

Don't worry, @abetts. I am serious when I say the brochure is beautiful. The best yet and will be the yardstick for years to come.

I am just slightly annoyed at having two versions, but all's good.

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In T10628#182883, @paulb wrote:

I have looked over the brochure and it is beautiful. Congratulations.

Not yet, I have to recreate the file since upon export, it lost all the sponsor images, while it included others, etc. The file you have here is the most updated one. The Scribus file will need editing to catch up. For now, if you need an edit, let me know and I can do it and export a new PDF.

This is problematic and the reason I must insist that media produced by Promo be easily accessible and modifiable by everybody. I know I can rely on you to introduce changes, but what if you, by no fault of your own, become unavailable at the moment there is an important modification that needs to be done urgently? If that were to happen, we'd be screwed. I agree this is unlikely, but the prospect should make everybody nervous

That is why I must insist you try to use free software solutions such as Scribus, even if they are not as polished as proprietary alternatives, as well as fonts and graphics with free licenses.

For what its worth, I am pretty sure you would've been able to produce the same good-looking brochure with Scribus. After all, it is you that is the talented designer, not the software.

In T10628#182856, @paulb wrote:

In T10628#182583, @abetts wrote:

In T10628#182558, @aacid wrote:

Small "complaint" that can probably be 99% ignored.

The PDF metadata (available in okular in File->Properties) shows the document was created on non free software (serif affinity) on a non free OS (macOS)

Maybe the software has options to remove that from the metadata? If not maybe you want me to scrub those before final publishing? It doesn't send the best of the messages, though i have to say i don't know how many more bored people like me are out there that would check that.

Your feedback has been addressed. Thank you for pointing that out. I have indeed created there, unfortunately, Scribus has not been cooperative with the design.

So... is the Scribus document on Share current?

In T10628#182558, @aacid wrote:

Small "complaint" that can probably be 99% ignored.

The PDF metadata (available in okular in File->Properties) shows the document was created on non free software (serif affinity) on a non free OS (macOS)

Maybe the software has options to remove that from the metadata? If not maybe you want me to scrub those before final publishing? It doesn't send the best of the messages, though i have to say i don't know how many more bored people like me are out there that would check that.

New version. I received the following feedback:

Here is a new version of the Brochure. Texts have been reviewed but I ask that you also take a look and let me know of any errors.

Sorry for coming this late into the conversation. I was wondering if the spear in the bolt can be changed to be horizontal? It would be more visually consistent with the angle that the lightning bold is. The back of the arrow |>, that needs to be horizontal.

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Love it!

I like the way that this is going. I also like the way that mobile does volume. Very understated. I think this is going the right direction.

two-finger tap?

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I checked my work calendar and the best date for me would be May 31 - June 1. I have the time to travel. I have a preference for Athens :D, but that's just me.

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In D20266#443993, @ngraham wrote:

This UI is fantastic. A huge improvement over the status quo.

It seems like there's no Do Not Disturb mode that stays on until manually turned off though?

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In D20226#442854, @GB_2 wrote:

Move bell's pendulum

The line that goes across almost completely removes the bell's pendulum to the right. Maybe move the pendulum closer to the center so that even when there is that red strike line, the user can still make out that it is a notification bell

The original 2018 version of this brochure was made in Scribus 1.5.x. I bumped into the same problem when making the 2019 version. I had to upgrade Scribus to the 1.5.x development series. I will make the PDFs.

Paul and I have been working on a brochure. This is what we have.

Can you add a before/after video maybe? Just to see the changes