Fwd: Amarok look

[Leo Franchi]

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


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