Themes/Skins

[Thomas Lübking]

Just for the records:

I've never "really" tried that (really ;-) BUT:

amarok --help-qt | grep style

--stylesheet <file.qss>   applies the Qt stylesheet to the application widgets

In /theory/ and at least for Qt4.6 (i know that amarok does not rely on it but 
i do not know about former Qt version support) is /should/ be possible to 
"skin" (in the limitations of Qt enhanced css) any application - in case you 
speak css ;-)

In general Qt css skinning works - The detail level is "pretty much ok" (i.e. 
it's of course not like "writing cpp" control)
And I can confirm (just tested) that the basic skinnig basically works with 
amarok.

It applies onto the current widget style and you can skin known classes or 
object names.
It supports colors, transparency, various gradients and (background) images (i 
don't think that shadows are supported so far - except of course by using 
shadow pngs on the borders)

So it's actually no big deal to force any kind of gradient onto the main 
toolbar. (given your Qt version supports it and you're able to manipulate a 

The biggest problems should be 
- pre-customized widgets (e.g. the sliders painted by the svg handler) and of 
course 
- any graphicsview content.
(Basically anything that does not on the UI style for painting)
- Also the performace for e.g. huge (window scale) gradients is rather "bad". 
(ok: lousy) and
- object names with spaces are likely not accessable ("Main Toolbar")

But it should definitly be sufficient for a "general mood" manipulation, so 
this actually is more or less provided by the ToolKit.
If you're interested: there's a way to provide css painting support for things 
like the sliders and still fall back to the svg theme by default. (though one 
could of course just write a css file and adjust the svg file as well)

The other
Thomas