Review Request 119879: call style()->drawControl rather than drawItemText to handle button painting in kmultitabbar

[Hugo Pereira Da Costa]

> On Aug. 21, 2014, 10:42 a.m., Christoph Feck wrote:
> > Regarding rotating the complete button, I doubt that it will look good. You will also rotate lightning/shadows, direction of gradients etc.

yes, right ... 
in fact, what my own code does (after double checking), is call CE_ToolButtonLabel for both the text and icon at once. (with rotated icon). It leaves the panel rendering unrotated. 
this still save you all the metrics computation.


- Hugo


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On Aug. 21, 2014, 10:19 a.m., Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 21, 2014, 10:19 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks, Christoph Feck, Gilles Caulier, and Marko Käning.
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> Repository: kwidgetsaddons
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> Description
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> As said in the title ...
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> This is needed for styles that would do more fancy things, such as, change the color (breeze), add a shadow (mac) or what else (change the font, etc.)
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> Now thinking more about it:
> all this paintEvent stuff is needed to handle rotated (vertical) buttons. one could make it much simpler by: 
> - rotate the painter once and for all in one direction
> - rotate the pixmap in the other direction
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> Call directly drawComplexControl( CC_ToolButton )
> (instead of the 'sub' drawContal calls)
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> That would deal automatically with the options, spacing, margins, etc. in one go.
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> In fact I have a custom class here that does just that. 
> Should I implement and test, instead of the fix above ?
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> This would also have a good chance to fix bug 296810
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> Diffs
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>   src/kmultitabbar.cpp 7af343b 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119879/diff/
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> Testing
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> looks good with breeze, oxygen, fusion
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> Thanks,
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> Hugo Pereira Da Costa
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