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

[Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2008/12/11 Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have just tried to play with new QPainter effect from Qt4. Why not to
>> > add
>> > a little 3D border around icon item like this :
>> >
>> >
>> > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/temp/3dbordericonkde4/3dbordericonviewkde4-01.png
>> >
>> > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/temp/3dbordericonkde4/3dbordericonviewkde4-02.png
>> >
>> > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/temp/3dbordericonkde4/3dbordericonviewkde4-03.png
>> >
>> > Patch relevant is very small:
>> >
>> > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/3dbordericonviewkde4.patch
>> >
>> > What do you you think about ?
>>
>> To be honest: I don't like it at all, please make anything
>> like this optional ....
>
> I don't want to add an option just for that...
>
> I have fully rewrittent his patch now. Untouched thumbnail loader  and fixed
> against icon item implementation (like it must be done in the future by pure
> Qt4 Model/view code)
>
> The frame is now very very discret (3 pixels no more, and code is the same
> than GWenview + some optimization.
>
> Look the screenshot :
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/temp/3dbordericonkde4/3dbordericonviewkde4-04.png
>
> Patch is at the same place:
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/3dbordericonviewkde4.patch
>
> Of course revert previous patch before to compile with this one...
>
> I hope this one will have a better audience (:=)))

It does look more discrete this way :). I like that it looks almost
like a shadow now.



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