SUMMARY I believe that new controls for changing screen orientation are too hard to read. Can just a classic approach of a drop-down menu be considered instead? Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0 Qt Version: 5.13.1 Kernel Version: 5.2.14-zen2-1-zen OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × , 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-3720QM CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 15,5 GiB
We had a combo box in the past, but it just showed the same thing as what we have now. The new button-based UI allows you to the same thing with a single click rather than two clicks or a click-and-hold. Can you quantify what you don't like about the new one?
It's just that it was hard for me to decipher meaning behind each icon. Thankfully there are mouseover tooltips. These icons are tiny, also people don't use square shaped screens that often. I'd like to suggest wider icon instead as a compromise, or a drop down menu.
The issue is also with these toolbar buttons that they have this massive gap between icon and edge. The icon could fill much more of the button.
Created attachment 122772 [details] misplaced tooltips Another issue I just noticed, tooltips appear in weird spots.
Thanks for the info.
It's due to us rotating the buttons. Which is already technically wrong, we're making wild assumptions about the style. On oxygen it would rotate the shadow. We need to have 4 icons instead.
Git commit ae555055b2ea8e41ebd8056c2b69451b893915da by David Edmundson. Committed on 16/10/2019 at 20:37. Pushed by davidedmundson into branch 'Plasma/5.17'. [kcm] Don't transform button to show rotated icon Summary: Rotating a button leads to tooltips being broken, it will lead to shadows being broken on a theme that uses shadows and is generally not great. This patch sets the contentItem explicitly and rotates that Reviewers: #plasma, ngraham, romangg Reviewed By: #plasma, ngraham, romangg Subscribers: romangg, mart, ngraham, broulik, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24488 M +8 -10 kcm/package/contents/ui/RotationButton.qml https://commits.kde.org/kscreen/ae555055b2ea8e41ebd8056c2b69451b893915da