Fwd: Amarok look

pinheiro nuno at oxygen-icons.org
Thu Jul 17 16:03:01 CEST 2008


A Thursday 17 July 2008 14:35:13, Leo Franchi escreveu:
> On 7/17/08, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > might as well use 9 for flexibility no??? From a artist point of view
> > > the amout of work is similar...
> >
> > No, for the slider/progress bars I would really rather not, as they
> >
> > are painted based on tiles and don't really "stretch" at all.
> >
> > If we don't *need* to have the 9-svg design (for tiled areas, or places
> > that only stretch in a given direction), there is no need to add that
> > complexity IMHO.
> >
> > >> > For the plasma applet background, we basically use ( except for the
> > >> > new black applets ) the standard plasma way of drawing backgrounds,
> > >> > and this actually correctly renders 9 different parts. If you look
> > >> > in the src/theme/context/Amarok-Mockup/widgtets/bckground.svg file,
> > >> > which is what is used as the background for most applets, you will
> > >> > notice that it actually contains 9 parts, even if it is just plain
> > >> > white. So the extremely poor caling of the new album applet is
> > >> > simply because it draws its own background and does not use a sane
> > >> > background theme ( I think it will look much better when all applets
> > >> > use a simmilar theme )
> > >
> > > somthing to be fixed there 2...(the corners are also bad)
> >
> > I agree, but a new plasma theme that can be used for all our applets
> > should solve this.
> >
> > > I can make amarok look prety decent on defoult kde 4.1 but f people use
> >
> > amarok
> >
> > > in windows, osx or change the witdget theme in kde it wont look
> > > coerent,
> > >
> > > never will. are you guys ok with that??
>
> I think we should aim to get Amarok to fit with with KDE 4.1 and unix, and
> then let the porting teams deal with the windows and OS X versions. From
> personal experience, there are pretty significant differences w/ Amarok on
> os x---e.g. the current SVG background appears completely white, with an
> imperceptible gradient---so we'll need to do more custom work anyway.
>
> leo

still difrent themes on kde wont bhave nicely, Personaly i dont care all that 
much i will use defoults :P

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