the toolbar gradient...

[Casey Link]

+1 for 1

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
> please don't flame, just vote ;-)
>
> Seeing the toolbar gradient with oxygen AND a menubar*, this really doesn't
> look too good**
>
> imho there only 2 main options:
> 1. kick the gradient entirely, have the style paint one***
> 2. have a bevel that blends in from the menubar and has some contrast on the
> bottom****
>  a) that has a hard delimiter on the bottom (facing the dock frames)
>  b) and hide the dockwidget frames (while the UI is locked)
>
> For obvious reasons i don't really care too much about what the solution will
> be, but in terms of a "general" solution I tend to 1 or 2b.
> (2b makes sense anyway as amarok hides the dockwidget layout in this context -
> also things would look less Lego-a-like :)
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
> Ps: I sent and still have shots from 1, 2a and why 2b won't work w/o removing
> the dock frames - ask if you need to resee them
>
> * sorry, usually i've it outside and i forgot to check.
> yes. this means i can have top menubars with every style.... ;-)
>
> ** notably as oxygen tends to stack strong frames upwards and paints
> mnemonics, the bevel itself matches the layout pretty much ok
>
> *** the style has to override the toolbar anyway to paint e.g. the drag
> handles.
> ! aside from this there'd be the option to use a distinct amarok_main_toolbar
> controlelement (w/o extending the enum at all) i.e. the style can be asked to
> explicitly paint amaroks main toolbar and we still can have a fallback.
>
> **** because of oxygens window gradient and in general, a gradient w/o at
> least one border would be either dull or unnotable
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