Removing border and background from KPageView

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 8 de setembre de 2014, a les 23:31:52, Anton Kreuzkamp va 
escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> on the VDG forum there has been a discussion about improving the design of
> "sidebars" (https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=120006).
> Meant are the sidebars that allow navigating between application pages,
> namely KPageView.
> 
> The idea is to remove the border and the white background, so that the list
> is drawn onto the window-background directly.
> 
> The implementation of this is rather easy, it's basically setting two flags
> in the constructor of KPageListView, resp. KPageTreeView.
> 
> The result is this:
> http://wstaw.org/m/2014/09/04/frameless-sidebar-oxygen.png
> 
> When using a tree view, it's like this:
> http://wstaw.org/m/2014/09/04/frameless-sidebar-oxygen-tree.png
> 
> What's your opinion regarding this?

I think that the white background better and it's what lists have been doing 
for a long time.

Is there any UX/design rationale of why removing the background is better than 
having it?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers, Anton