Amarok look

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

We have been using the wrong forwarding address, nuno at oxygen-icons.org
is the right one. I will forward the two additional mails as well.

- Nikolaj

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:17 PM, William Viana <vianasw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> pinheiro and me have been talking via skype today about amarok 2
> visual aspect in general and the way things are being done. I'll try
> to explain what pinheiro told me the best way I can but as you know
> I'm new here and I may not know about the details.
>
> Firstly we are using svg's but we are rendering them the wrong way.
> Every svg that has corners and is scaled in some way should be done in
> several pieces and in a way that everything is scaled but the corners
> or they loose their aspect and result in something not nice. Seems
> like we are using svgs in a lot of places and are not doing it the
> sane way.
>
> Other problem is that by using monochromatic svg themes and then
> tinting them doesn't work very well, apart that then artists are very
> limited to create themes, themes won't be very well adapted to the
> current desktop theme. By using svgs in a lot of places makes it very
> difficult that the application looks integrated with the environment
> since it's not only about colours but other things like button's
> shapes for instance.
>
> And finally since we are using plasma for the context view, qt
> graphics view framework for the playlist on the right and qt widgets
> for the collection browser it results very difficulty to make the
> application visually coherent and also very difficult for artists to
> collaborate since they need to be working on three different things
> that work different from each other.
>
> pinheiro suggests that we should really care about the svg scaling
> issue and that we should solve it as soon as possible. For the last
> issue he suggests that we shouldn't be using three different
> frameworks, we should be using at most two and preferably only one but
> it's something that maybe couldn't be done now unless we delay the
> release date.
>
> If I said something really wrong please correct me. And pinheiro
> please add more details if you feel like.
>
> Please cc to pinheiro [nuno at oxygen-icons.com] when you answer since
> he's not subscribed to the list.
>
> --
>    -William-
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