<p>I really like that look :) indeed, it gives the skrooge dashboard a very slick look ! I can't say I'm bothered by the background, as ivan says. </p>
<p>Anyway, thanks for this initiative, I'm sure it will help skrooge and other applications create great dashboards !</p>
<p>That being said, we still have a bit of work before having a usable plasma dashboard in skrooge, but we'll get there :)</p>
<p>Guillaume</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">Le 23 janv. 2011 23:20, "Marco Martin" <<a href="mailto:notmart@gmail.com">notmart@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br type="attribution">Hey all,<br>
today i hacked a bit around graphical styling of the Plasma kpart, that<br>
includes making svgs and fixing the newspaper containment/kpart code where<br>
needed (as result newspaper sucks a bit less on the desktop, yay ;))...<br>
<br>
here it is:<br>
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/11ySf.png" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/11ySf.png</a><br>
<br>
the style (there are still some glitches, is to polish it up) is in<br>
playground, the patches are committed just in part.<br>
<br>
The rationale is that the application dashboard for sure shouldn't look like a<br>
desktop at all (that is how would look definitely more dirty and more<br>
confising)<br>
<br>
it rather should look like a document with quick recap info.<br>
so yes, in that screenshot it looks like a friggin' website and that's exactly<br>
the intent ;)<br>
<br>
some important points:<br>
* the background is the same as the konqueror/kmail/etc "start page", *not*<br>
configurable (i think the plasma theme graphic used there would make more<br>
sense in those pages as well compared to the current old broken desktop theme)<br>
* the plasma theme has at the moment exactly 2 elements and uses where<br>
possible native widgets (the backgrounds will also use native colors with the<br>
new stylesheet support in Svg)<br>
* the newspaper has a big background for all applets (that is the main thing<br>
that makes it a "document" rater than "crome": that iage is not available in<br>
the default theme, so it will continue to -not- be there in an "usual" case<br>
<br>
now, apart from feedback from artsy people, my greatest concerns is the usage<br>
if soo big pixmaps (the wallpaper and the big newspaper svg background) that<br>
makes quite a memory usage, but i think from the final look it's worth it.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Marco Martin<br>
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