[Digikam-devel] a little patch to add 3d border around icon item...

Andi Clemens andi.clemens at gmx.net
Thu Dec 11 15:21:17 GMT 2008


But gwenview seems to render a shadow instead of a border, which looks nicer. 
Somehow this 3D-border seems to be too thick and distracting.

Andi

On Thursday 11 December 2008 16:07:35 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2008/12/11 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <ploujj at gmail.com>
>
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Gilles Caulier
> >
> > <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2008/12/11 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>
> > >
> > >> Hmm to be honest, I liked the old style better... maybe this could be
> > >> a settings option (or even a stylesheet element for our themes)?
> > >
> > > this is not a stylesheet element. the code draw a decorative border
> > > using advanced QPainter method instead to do a simple 1 pixel black
> > > line.
> >
> > The minimalist in me is screaming against this "feature. At the very
> > least, please make it optional and disabled by default.
> > I personally don't see any purpose to this other than making the
> > interface look more "modern". I'd appreciate if you could show the
> > same screenshots but without this border for comparison.
> > Since I don't have time to understand the code right now, I don't know
> > if this border will be an issue for someone who wants to fit as many
> > thumbnails on the screen as possible, but his needs to be considered.
>
> Look how Gwenview render thumbnail icons, it give a similar view.
>
> This give a more KDE4 look...
>
> Gilles




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