Review Request 109410: set the style to plastique if not running in KDE

[Boudewijn Rempt]

> On March 11, 2013, 9:35 a.m., C. Boemann wrote:
> > Fine with me, but I think it's wrong of you to hard code the style for krita - at least give the user a way out. It's not impossible that the user is running oxygen or some other style that will work, even if not on KDE
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> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>     Well, I can check whether the current style is oxygen, and if not, enable plastique, or even enable plastique, then try to enable oxygen (which is better than plastique). Or make the style configurable in krita's settings dialog. But I don't want to risk anyone to start krita with another style than these two -- I haven't seen a single style other than these that is not broken.
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> C. Boemann wrote:
>     it's just a very presumptious thing to hardcode it. Now how will a style coder be able to test with krita and make it better. While I fully understand your position, I think it's wrong to not give the user a way out so a solution would  that style configuration with 3 choices:
>      - oxygen
>      - plastique
>      - system default (most styles look bad, complain to their creator, not to us)

Well, I really only care about users, and I care that they have a good experience out of the box. I also care a little bit about me, who gets the bug reports and then has to try and figure out who writes which style plugin to forward the bug.

Inside KDE, people coding on styles can select whatever style they want and it'll be picked up.


- Boudewijn


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On March 11, 2013, 9:26 a.m., Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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> (Updated March 11, 2013, 9:26 a.m.)
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> Review request for Calligra.
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> Description
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> For Krita, with its default dark theme, only two styles work: oxygen and plastique. Oxygen is default in KDE, if the user selects something else, it's their problem. On windows, osx and ubuntu, the default style is broken for krita, so hard-code plastique if the user is running krita outside KDE.
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> This means that on Windows, other apps than Krita will use the default windows style again. It might be worth it to reinstate the code that detects the windows version and sets the right style, but that is up for discussion.
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> Diffs
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>   libs/main/KoApplication.cpp 87536f1 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/109410/diff/
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> Thanks,
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> Boudewijn Rempt
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