RFC: wrong highlights on 'docked' tabs

[Matt Rogers]

On Monday 13 November 2006 14:06, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Because newui draws vertical tabs by drawing horizontal tabs and then
> rotating them, the highlights on the tabs are incorrect. I understand
> why this is done for the text, but is it not possible to draw a vertical
> button? I suppose things would go horribly wrong if the button were
> drawn normally but in a vertical orientation, and only the text was
> drawn rotated?
>
> The reason I am asking is because I am investigating adding 'hinting' to
> newui's drawing code (Button::drawButton) that would enable a style that
> knows about KDevelop's newui to alter its drawing to draw something more
> tab-like rather than button-like (without interfering with other styles
> that lack this 'special support'). But... I want to do it in a way such
> that other applications with similar 'tab docks' could use the same
> hinting. I am wondering if it is better to somehow clean this up so that
> newui is doing less 'rotated drawing', or if the style should assume
> that vertical tabs are drawn via rotation (in which case the style
> should draw its highlighting "wrong").
>
> Opinions?
>
> (And I suppose I might as well ask the all-important question: what are
> my chances of getting such hinting into KDevelop proper?)

Next to none. IMHO, it's a new feature, and KDevelop 3.4 is in feature freeze.
-- 
Matt