Wireless setting for Plasma Mobile

Month after my proposed design (but in truth i am working on this for longer time), i am finally finished basic functionality for wireless section of mobile settings. Basics of UI is also almost done, even it’s need some polishing and good criticism of designers.

Proposed design for mobile network settings

Design

While thinking of design, i looked on biggest “competitors” on mobile OS market – Android and iOS. Mainly i am taking design ideas from Android, since i am thinking it has good proportion between usability and functionality, while i am studying/following KDE Human Interface Guidelines, https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/HIG and as recommended i am using Kirigami 2 framework, which implement most of HIG rules by itself.

Introduction

Hello,

so here it is, my first blog post ever, so my first bigger project, contribution to open-source and Linux desktop ever.

My name is Martin, currently student of Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, and i am developing new setting module for Plasma Mobile project https://www.plasma-mobile.org/,  module which should be replacement for current KCM network settings.

Reason for replacement is that  current settings simply copied from desktop (https://github.com/KDE/plasma-nm/), which UI are not targeted for mobile environment and together with other issues should be reworked and polished for end-user needs, see https://phabricator.kde.org/T6878 . The module will be part of plasma-settings, https://github.com/KDE/plasma-settings/

This project proposed me Jan Grulich (http://www.jgrulich.cz), developer of NetworkManager and desktop applet used in Fedora. He supports me with  mentorship a introducing to KDE development.

My own fork where i am developing module is on https://github.com/MartinKacej/plasma-nm. I will be glad for your advices and help from end-user viewpoint , since i am mostly struggling on design part.