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diff --git a/kpersonalizer/README b/kpersonalizer/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..96224a955 --- /dev/null +++ b/kpersonalizer/README @@ -0,0 +1,230 @@ +KPersonalizer - Whitepaper +=================== + +Questions & Answers: + +Torsten Rahn <torsten@kde.org> +Carsten Wolff <wolff@kde.org> +Ralf Nolden <nolden@kde.org> +Daniel Molkentin <danimo@kde.org> + + +Aim: +----- +When the user starts KDE for the very first time the very first impression is + critical and will decide whether the user likes or dislikes KDE. While this + might not sound very"fair" or "logical" it's the way people think and perceive + their environment. + +The aim of KPersonalizer is to provide the pleasant look & feel the user expects + on the very first startup. To determine which look and feel the user prefers he + is guided through a minimal set of steps. + +What Kpersonalizer is _not_ about: +-------------------------------------------- + +Kpersonalizer is not a wizard which configures your hardware, mount-points or +any other distribution-related stuff. KPersonalizer is only meant to deal with +the Look & Feel KDE provides. As soon as we would touch distribution-related +stuff we risk that distributions might disable KPersonalizer. To encourage +distributions to make use of it it should easily be possible to extend or change +the behaviour of KPersonalizer. + +KPersonalizer is not meant to be part of KControl +KControl is rather a graphical registry where you can change every little +detail in a hierarchically arranged order. One really has to know about the +details when changing stuff and one only changes things one by one. +KPersonalizer on the other hand asks the user very basic questions +that don't require much background-knowledge and tries to guess a set +of configuration-settings which fit the users needs best. + +Layout: KPersonalizer consists of a window which is not set fullscreen. +This has the advantage that the user sees on the fly which settings he has +changed and can step back as he sees that something doesn't fit. +On the left of each dialog there is a decorative 170x430-pixel-bitmap which +sort of describes the step in a graphical manner. + +Step 1: +===== +Introduction: +The Introduction should give the user a warm welcome. It should explain +what KPersonalizer will do during the next step and that the user will be able +to refine the settings afterwards in the last step using kcontrol. + +Most distributions I am aware of generally set one language for all users as a +first default. In certain situations the user might not speak the language +of the default installation which was done by the Sysadmin. +Therefore it makes sense to prompt the user for "his" country. +Judging from the country Kpersonalizer will make all settings according to that +country (language, currency, etc.). +As distributions might take care of this step it should stay easy to disable +that part of the dialog. + +Step 2: +===== +Here the user is asked for the way his computer should act like in the future. +Once again this step only deals with the way the computer works - not with the +look. + +Depending on the radiobutton which is enabled you get a description which +lists the feautres of each setting: + +KDE (default): + +The default-setting which you would get if you would disable +KPersonalizer. + +Microsoft Windows (TM): + +- Double Click +- Busy Cursor +- Windows keyboard scheme +- use 2 clipboards for c&p (keyboard/mouse) (default) +- Window-Behavior -> Focus on click +- Titlebar doubleclick -> Maximize +- WindowList-menu on MMB +- Walk trough windows mode: KDE +- NOT underline IconText +- NOT change pointer shape over an icon + +UNIX (TM): +- Single Click +- No busy-cursor +- UNIX -keyboard-scheme. +- synchronize clipboards +- Window-Behavior -> Focus follows mouse +- Titlebar doubleclick -> Shade +- Application-menu on MMB like in FVWM +- Walk trough windows mode: CDE +- NOT underline IconText +- NOT change pointer shape over an icon + +MacOS: +- Single Click +- No Busy Cursor +- Mac- Keyboard-Scheme +- use 2 clipboards for c&p (keyboard/mouse) (default) +- Window-Behavior -> Focus on click +- Titlebar doubleclick -> Shade (for now. MacOS X has Minimize but this isn't offered by kwin yet) +- Menubar on top +- WindowList-menu on MMB +- Walk trough windows mode: KDE +- NOT underline IconText +- change pointer shape over an icon + +Step 3: Eyecandy-O-Meter +=================== +The most prominent part the user should see is a big slider. Using this slider +he can easily choose the level of eyecandy. Some people prefer to have a Fast & +Lean environment with small desktop-items and other prefer a Big, Beautiful and +resource-wasting behaviour. + +To give the advanced user still some control over what is being changed all +items affected are being displayed in a small listview below. In front of each +listview-item there is a checkbox. +These items are being checked or unchecked depending on the position of the +slider. "Big & Beautiful" means that all items are checked, Fast and Lean means +that all items are unchecked. +As soon as the user touches the checkbox of one of the items directly the +state of that particular checkbox is not being changed by the position of the +slider anymore. Pressing a "Reset"-button will put all items back into the +position/state where the dialog started from. + +Features which are affected by the slider are being mentioned in the +following list of Levels: + + +Level 0 (No Eyecandy): + +- No animations, no eyecandy, nothing :) + +Level 1: + +- Show Wallpaper +- Animate Shading, Minimize & Restore (window effects) +- Display content in moving/resizing windows + +Level 2: + +- Show Konqueror/Kicker-backgrounds + +Level 3: + +- Show Iconeffects (Highlightning) +- Icon Zooming (ONLY MAC) + +Level 4 (Default for slow machines): + +- Icon Animations (mng) +- Desktop-Iconsize = 48 (if Resolution >= 1024x768) (ONLY MAC/CDE) +- Panel- Iconsize = 56 (if Resolution >= 1280x1024) (ONLY MAC/CDE) + +Level 5: + +- Enable Image-Previews + +Level 6: + +- Enable Animated Combo boxes + +Level 7 (default for fast machines): + +- Enable Antialiased Fonts +- Enable Fade tool tips +- Enable Fade menus + +Level 8: + +- Enable Text-Previews +- Icon Zooming (ALL SELECTIONS) +- Desktop-Iconsize = 48 (if Resolution >= 1024x768) (ALL SELECTIONS) +- Panel- Iconsize = 56 (if Resolution >= 1280x1024) (ALL SELECTIONS) + +Level 9 (Maximum Eyecandy): + +- Enable Icons on PushButtons +- Enable all kinds of File-Previews +- Enable Sound + +(The number of events which offer a sound corresponds directly to the +"eyecandy-level".) + +Idea for the future: The default-position of the slider might depend on the +measured performance/resources of the computer. + +Step 4: Theme-Selection +================= +The user can choose from 4-5 themes each of them representing a look and feel +which is very different from each other and might correspond with the choice +made in Step 2 a bit :-) +Basically this changes Icons, the widgetstyle, the WM-decoration, the +Colourscheme, tiles and Wallpapers. + +There is a preview for each theme. + +Step 5: Refinement +============== +The user is told how he can start KPersonalizer again if the user changes his +mind on a certain setting later and the advanced user may launch kcontrol to +refine certain settings. + + +EOF + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |