Minor issue with kaddressbook and Keramik

[Maks Orlovich]

On Sunday 14 July 2002 12:19 am, Mirko Boehm wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> when I made incremental search a toolbar in kaddressbook, I had to use the
> option to use an arbitrary widget as a toolbar element. When using Keramik
> as your style, you will experience the UI elements being drawn flat, unlike
> the other nicely rounded toolbar elements.
>
> I consider this to be a problem of the Keramik style, or am I wrong?

You're mostly wrong, since it's partly a KAddressBook issue and parly a Qt 
limitation (which also applies to HighColor). For starters, you've wrapped 
all of the widgets in the toolbar into a non-styled QWidget -- so the 
behavior is exactly what you requested. Please remember that the style 
drawing works through the implementations of the widget's paint methods 
calling the current style's appropriate virtuals and asking it to draw the 
relevant parts of the widgets. QWidget doesn't do that; it just clears the 
background. If you add the widgets directly to the toolbar, it should be 
closer to what it should look like -- except for the labels. Since the labels 
on toolbars aren't styled widgets either,they don't get the gradient -- 
that's a Qt limitation unless one resolves to having the style re-do all of 
QLabel's painting code, and to handle the paint events itself, which is 
extremely risky, and brittle, as if QLabel gets some new functionality in Qt 
3.1 stuff will break. The workaround for this is to use a modified 
QToolButton instead (that's what Konqueror does, for example). Since this 
just seems to popup in many places (Konqui, KDict, some of the games, and now 
KAddressBook), perhaps a new widget that does this would be a good idea; 
anyone have any thoughts on that (Gallium?)?. 

-Maksim