[Kde-pim] kontact sidepane

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 31 May 2008 18:30:35 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all =)
>
> first: congrats on getting kontact ready for kde 4.1. one more kde3
> application is now gone from my day to day usage and i'm quite happy about
> that. i'm sure it makes all of you feel really great to have reached the
> kde4 milestone as well. and other than a few odd quirks with the text
> editor it's been a great experience thus far these last few days.
>
> i did notice that the sidebar still has the less than amazing painting from
> kde3 (i think i'm at least partly to blame for that code, actually; danimo
> also did a bunch stuff in there i think? anyways ... ) and so even though i
> know it's still using the K3* classes and any changes would eventually be
> of the throw-away sort, i thought i'd celebrate kontact joining my kde4
> desktop with a small patch to help make that sidebar slightly prettier.
>
> in particular the attached patch:
>
> * gets rid of the frame; besides looking nicer it also lets me hit the
> items with my mouse crammed against the screen edge
>
> * uses the QStyle::PE_PanelItemViewItem primitive element to paint the
> background; this makes it blend in with all other styled items in kde4.
>
> * adds a bit more whitespace about things in places to make it all look a
> little less cramped.
>
> you can see the results  in the screenshot here:
>
> 	http://bddf.ca/~aseigo/kontactsidebar1.png

Aaron, I'll look at your patch today and probably commit it.

Raphael, I read your blog.  If you have a Qt4 port ready
soon we can replace the whole sidebar with your new version.

Thanks guys.  We can use all the help we can get.

-Allen

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