Created attachment 90084 [details] Low contrast between icons. The check mar the widget explorer adds to widgets in use is depending on the icon of the widget barely visible with the check mark provided my the breeze theme. We thought about how to improve the visibility and would like to get feedback from the developers: 1) Change the check mark icon in the Breeze theme. That's possible of course, but we'd like to come up with something that would also work for other themes. 2) Display a small circle in the upper left corner with the number shown of how often the widget in question is used. Similar to to notification badges in used in the OSX and Unity dock. Begs the question how often more than one widget of the same kind is actually used to justify this behaviour. 2.1) Use the same circle idea with the check mark icon. 3) Use a check box. This idea was not liked by most of the VDG as it is quite misleading interaction wise.
My vote would be for a simple filled circle in the theme highlight color. The number would be helpful, but not critical I don't think. Hope this helps.
Git commit 3347ebe87d6c8706873d65de4fc45ac3c21c0b10 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 04/05/2015 at 21:30. Pushed by broulik into branch 'Plasma/5.3'. Improve visibility of running widget checkmark It now shows a round badge with the actual number of running widgets inside. To provide additional spacing and contrast a margin around the badge is punched out from the icon. REVIEW: 123539 FIXED-IN: 5.3.1 M +65 -12 desktoppackage/contents/explorer/AppletDelegate.qml http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/3347ebe87d6c8706873d65de4fc45ac3c21c0b10