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[Robert Knight]

> there are other show stoppers in the oxygen
> style such as incompleteness in rendering of menus and tabs.

The colour scheme as well.  It depends on the monitor, but on some the
controls are almost invisible.

On 17/11/2007, Robert Knight <robertknight at gmail.com> wrote:
> > it would be better to use our limited time and resources to work on the
> real
> > issues rather than derail on an issue that amounts to "the default window
> > decoration doesn't do coloration yet"
>
> As mentioned in the bug report, that isn't the only problem.  A more
> important one mentioned is that it is hard to tell active and inactive
> windows apart at a glance because of the lack of coloration in the
> title bar - especially on PCs which do not / cannot run kwin-composite
> and therefore do not have shadows under the active window.  That
> probably does qualify as a show-stopper.
>
> The window decoration for Oxygen doesn't provide a border around the
> window on un-composited desktops yet either, which makes it hard to
> see where one window stops and another starts.
>
> On 16/11/2007, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 16 November 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > > Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > > > On Friday 16 of November 2007, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > >> - techbase beta goals page
> > > >>   http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Beta_Goals
> > > >
> > > >  Meaning specific issues, not highlevel stuff like this. For example,
> I
> > > > consider http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152030 to be a blocker
> for
> > > > Oxygen windeco being the default KWin decoration, but I don't
> consider
> > > > myself to be a person to do something about it (of course, besides
> the
> > > > obvious flipping of the default, but there's no need to go that far).
> > >
> > > I haven't been on IRC lately due to RL timesinks :-(... what do
> > > Boemann/Pinheiro say about this? Has it been brought up on #oxygen?
> >
> > this was discussed on the release list at least and a few people noted
> > (disclosure: i was one of them) did not see this as a show stopper, but
> > merely a bug / feature ommission. there are other show stoppers in the
> > oxygen
> > style such as incompleteness in rendering of menus and tabs.
> >
> > it would be better to use our limited time and resources to work on the
> real
> > issues rather than derail on an issue that amounts to "the default window
> > decoration doesn't do coloration yet"
> >
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