Keramik Scrollbar

[Vadim Plessky]

On Sunday 03 November 2002 8:34 pm, Fredrik Höglund wrote:
|  On Sunday 03 November 2002 15:28, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
|  > On Sunday 03 November 2002 14:21, Michael Brade wrote:
|  > > The problem I have with the scrollbar is that it has always the color
|  > > of the selection background. To have a clean, consistent desktop look
|  > > I'd like to have the button background for the scrollbars. Tabs,
|  > > buttons and scrollbars should look the same. Comments?
|
|  The other parts of the scrollbar are already drawn with the button color
|  so the only other color that's available to make the slider stand out is
|  the selection color.
|
|  > While playing around with the colors in the Control Center I noticed
|  > that the color preview doesn't work correctly in all cases:
|  >
|  > Instead of the Button Background color the Window Background color is
|  > used as background color for the Push Button.
|
|  I've committed a change that fixes this problem for all styles
|  except Liquid.

While not to add ScrollBar Color to standard KDE theme format?
This would fix all thos eproblems/misunderstandings.

What really annoys me in Keramik scrollbars is annoying *banding* in colors.
Can someone fix it, please?


|
|  > Instead of the Selection Background color the Window Background color is
|  > used as color for scroll bar slider.
|
|  This happens because the preview widget can only pass the style a
|  color group to draw the widget with, but it has no way of knowing
|  which color in that group the style will actually use to draw the
|  widget with.
|
|  So to ensure that the labels for the different widgets always match
|  the colors, the preview sets all the members of that color group to
|  the same color, thereby forcing the style to draw the widgets with
|  the color the preview wants it to use.
|
|  Unfortunately in many cases those aren't the colors the style would
|  actually use to draw those widgets with in real world situations.
|
|  To make matters worse, the preview widget isn't very accurate.
|  None of the widgets that are drawn with the background color in
|  the preview are really supposed to be drawn with that color.
|
|  The color that should be used for all 3D elements, such as toolbars,
|  menubars, popup menus, scrollbars, comboboxes etc. is in fact the
|  button color.
|
|  As far as I know Liquid is the only style that uses the background
|  color for menubars, toolbars etc.
|
|  > I agree with Michael that using the selection background color for the
|  > scroll bar slider is very strange.
|
|  I think that all these issues are really just symptoms of a problem
|  with Qt - that the palette is too limiting. If there were additional
|  entries for scrollbars etc. all styles would be able to draw the
|  same widgets with the same colors, and it would be possible for
|  users to adjust those colors to match their preferences.
|
|  Regards,
|  Fredrik

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