Comments on: KDE Multimedia Sprint QuickSand, day 1

By: Bugsbane

Bugsbane — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:01:32 +0000

Thanks! It’s appreciated!

Have fun.

By: afiestas

afiestas — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:48:42 +0000

Thanks for your suggestions, I’ll work on that the next time I have some free time to hack on QuickSand.

By: Bugsbane

Bugsbane — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:40:56 +0000

Actually it would probably be better showing item1 item2 item3 item4 item5 item6…

Just get rid of the wasted slots.

Also, why not show what you’re typing where it says “Type to search” instead and save some more space. It would also be more obvious to people imho.

By: Bugsbane

Bugsbane — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:00:37 +0000

I always loved Quicksand (or whatever it was called back then) in the KDE3 days. I was so happy to see an attempt to bring it back, but when it did come back it was… ugly.

Your version is looking much nicer. A couple of things that would really help though:

1. Get rid of / hide / give people a way to turn off the list that pops up to the right when you start typing. If I wanted a list of text extending downward, I’d use the standard krunner interface.

2. There’s an excessive amount of empty space and unnecessary elements. It could be visually much more elegant by taking out the space at the top, the “Quicksand” label, optionally the aforementioned “x items” and compressing whats left to one line.

3. There’s also space being wasted by displaying results in the middle and to the right but with nothing on the left. I suggest that rather than showing:
blank blank blank item 1 item 2 item 3

that it show

item6 item4 item2 item1 item3 item5

So that the top search results are in the middle and then fanning out left and right, showing twice as many results.

Thanks for picking this up and running with it. Good luck!

By: montfras

montfras — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:27:24 +0000

ah why did you do that!
now I cannot decide which interface to take anymore, thanks a lot for that…

no really thank you