Removing border and background from KPageView

[Christoph Feck]

On Tuesday 09 September 2014 10:33:22 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 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?

Additionally, removing the frame is not a good idea, because the frame 
separates the scrollable(!) contents of the list from the background, 
in other words, they are not at the same (z-axis) layer.

Christoph Feck (kdepepo)
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