Improvements for the UI

[jsimplicio]

Hey everyone, I found this project under Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/) and really want to collaborate and help make the UI look better, and overall UX. I want to start playing with the app so I can start figuring out the weak points in the UI and start sketching. However I am not sure how to run the app. I installed QT and am not sure if that's all that I need to run but when I try to run the command for OS X with qmake it tells me that it cannot find the command qmake. Perhaps is a $PATH issue?

Thanks for your help!

[annejan]

First of all thank you for your interest in helping us out making QtPass more awesome.
Currently we are in a redesign step, so it might be smart to have a look at the current changes in #124

On OSX it's easiest to install QtCreator http://www.qt.io/ide/ which I'm guessing you did?

Then open the qtpass.pro file, this should open the IDE which will ask you some questions about what kinds of builds you want to make, the defaults should suffice.

The IDE has a [Run] button for running QtPass and quickly viewing changes you make in the Forms and Code.

Running qmake from command-line indeed needs a path change, in my .bash_profile on OSX I have export PATH="$HOME/Qt/5.5/clang_64/bin:$PATH"

Please let me know if this is helpful..

Also, for just running QtPass there are builds under https://github.com/IJHack/qtpass/releases

[jsimplicio]

Hey there @annejan and thanks for the quick and helpful reply. I followed your instructions which made complete sense and got everything working! I will catch up to speed on that thread!

Cheers

[jsimplicio]

Hey @annejan I took a stab based on what was already done in that PR. I decided that we have so few icons that I made them myself, why not! So we have a common style going. I noticed in some of your screenshots that the icons were inside of a box with a border. Is it possible to let them stand out by themselves as a button and to remove that outline?

Let me know what you think!

*missing the key icon currently so ignore that.

[annejan]

From @termitoz moved from #124
New looks:

[jsimplicio]

Here are the button icons in svg and previews in jpeg:

qtpass-icons.zip

[jsimplicio]

@annejan Btw if you want the icons outside of the circular buttons too let me know!

[annejan]

Awesome, thank you @jsimplicio !

Yes please, just the icons would be awesome for #124
Also if possible I'd love for a <X] style (clear search for mainwindow and users) button and a Copy (password) button 🙇

Trying the round buttons as fallback (on OSX) now . . looks like this . .

[jsimplicio]

Hey @annejan I'm noticing the config screen is gonna end up looking different soon. Under profiles? I see the mentioning of templates also. What are some things missing from config that we should include in a redesign?

[annejan]

More settings that are per-profile (not just the password-store folder) #112
Most importantly the git settings.

Templates must be that .. Templates not just a template ;-) #155