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Hello every one in the KDE planet and beyond, this is the progress weekly report on O².

So The week surprisingly started Monday and after the initial chock and accompanying usual work day at KDAB, I decided to do a little bit of progress on  O² style mock ups...

Started with progress bars in both radius variants tan bowth sizes variants as well and bowth color testing variants.

Its ok IMO but need to test and implementation in QML to be more sure about it. specially on the white variation it looks off.

 Tuesday was....  labels and drop boxes days, show in to way to layout labels for boxes and the acompaning multiple sizes colors and radius variations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday was  first test/mock day with a spinner/ more on that Saturday..

Tuesday was the day I started to experiment with old desktop style check and radio boxes... WIP. they dont "Pop" much and it was intentional but need to balance it with the other elements... Another one that needs to be in QML

Friday was the day I worked on sound wave notifications for assistants... seamed like a great idea on my brain, but I'm not so sure i like it, after all this time (2 days is a very long time ) :faceplam emoicon

 

 

 

 

 

Finally yesterday i was supposed to work on the sound wave QML implementation but I got distracted by the implementation of a spiner/progess thingy... here playing with tension creation and release. only useful if we know the progress value.

Next week i will try to create a video for all of this... probably just screen-casting my work and inserting some side comments. kinda like this but maybe more fun

Finlay already said this the other day but,  have been posting  the progress every days on Instagram, (sorry for the blurriness)     https://www.instagram.com/pinheirokde/  in case you are interested in dally updates

cheers and see you all tomorrow next week...

  





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