making kickoff have full-width selection rects (on hover)

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

2008/2/29 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:

> On Friday 29 February 2008, Alex Merry wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:20:13 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > > So if the icon could become bigger when selected, just a tiny bit and
> the
> > > text becomes bold the item could wave at the user and say: "Hello, I'm
> > > selected!".
> >
> > Patch attached that does a quick-hack version of this.
> >
> > No screenshot, because that doesn't capture the effect of increasing the
> > icons by 4px on hover.
>
> couple comments:
>
> * bold fonts are not that different than non-bold fonts on some systems
> and
> some type faces, making this change nearly non-visible for some people =/
> this is the problem i ran into with this approach previously. it's
> probably
> not unfixable, but it would be good to see how this works out on such
> systems.
>
> * i know it's just a quick hack patch, but the larger icon is blurred due
> to
> resizing and therefore looks pretty bad. i would imagine a non-quick-hack
> patch would address this issue
>
> * it does rely on movement between the itme .. just looking at the menu
> without movement doesn't immediatly make it clear which item is the
> current
> one (again, a problem i ran into when taking this approach pre-4.0)
>
> so now we have three options. personally, i like the elegance of not
> changing
> colours and drawing selection rects. making it a bit more clear what item
> is
> selected would probably need to happen to make this a real contender
> though.
>
>
Not commenting on the whole thing as I'd had to try it, but what about
adding to this the elegant and neutral gradient full-width that marco
martin has coded? This should make it look pretty good.

Just be sure it works also with dark colorschemes. ;-)

Bye,
-Riccardo
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