Today I made the best kind of progress on #gnome's new quick settings.
Namely: I decided that the bit that would make a fragile and complicated part more fragile and complicated isn't needed after all, and what I had done to mock up the missing bit is a valid option for a proper implementation.
And voilá, 10 minutes later I have working code that I'm genuinely happy with:
(In case anyone is wondering, the bit in question is the top row, which doesn't follow the rest of the grid regarding the number and sizing of elements)
@fmuellner A n00b question, why place the Sound and Brightness sliders bellow the power and session logout buttons?
@joao the short answer is: because that's what's in the mockups
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/raw/master/system-status/quick-toggles-3.png
I guess the rationale is a combination of
- those elements are the most stable ones; disabling lock/shutdown is much rarer than not having a brightness control
- the controls are slightly different, both in terms of behavior (click buttons instead of toggles) as well as visual (not bound by the grid)
- it looks better in a variety of configurations that the designers tried