widget style cleanup

[Lauri Watts]

On Monday 13 September 2004 16.10, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 12 September 2004 2:14 pm, Lauri Watts wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 September 2004 18.45, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > > On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:50, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> > > > - Move Plastik from kdeartwork to kdelibs in preparation for KDE 4.0
> > >
> > > And make it default. ;-) Honestly, I heard at aKademy about a script
> > > which was said to help to produce screenshots of applications for all
> > > languages.
> >
> > Indeed, this is not just a rumour :)
> >
> > I haven't quite got it up and running yet, but consider my objections to
> > a style change withdrawn.
>
> Oh boy!  Is it in cvs or online somewhere yet?  Any tech details?  Using
> dcop? Any developer docs?  How does it account for network apps?  Where
> will it reside in cvs when done?  Does it take into account color and
> window manager theme?  Will kde apps simply have a screenshot directory
> with a script and example files that will generated the screenshots when
> you install the docs?

It uses kdexecutor.  There's no docs (nor really any need for any)

Screenshots are taken without window decorations, but you can grab a whole 
window (sans wm deco) or a single specific widget.  It will take all 
screenshots for all installed languages.  It is not possible due to 
kdexecutor licensing, to generate them on the users machines, but there can 
be a central collection of scripts that can be run en masse to generate all 
screenshots for all languages, to commit to kde-i18n cvs.  It specifies style 
in the script, and uses the currently set system colour scheme (if KDE apps 
supported command line option the way they do --style, then we could specify 
a colour scheme too.

It's not all that stable, yet, and I have a couple of issues to work out (it 
doesn't deal at all well with multiple KDE installations for instance, and 
that leads to some really broken results when it tries to run konqueror from 
one installation with kioslaves from another.)  

I need to check with the author about how to fix the gnarly issues yet.

> Other fun things like
> -Of course the docs screenshots would look the same.
> -Automated screenshots for releases and pre-releases to entice users on the
> website.
> -KOffice screenshots can finally use the same theme!
> -Theme maintainers could generated tons of screenshots with ease.
> -www.kde-apps.org can generate screenshots of applications.

All the above should be largely possible, except that you can't take 
screenshots of an entire desktop, and it only works with Qt based apps.

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://docs.kde.org
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org
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