New Area-Tabs

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.05.09 11:37:09, David Nolden wrote:
> Am Sonntag 24 Mai 2009 10:00:48 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > Hi,
> >
> > starting a new thread for this as I don't really see where in the mess
> > of threads I should answer. I just tried out the change that David did
> > to show areas as tabs and here's the result for Oxygen, QtCurve,
> > Cleanlooks and Plastique.
> >
> > Cleanlooks: http://www.apaku.de/vardata/kdev_area_tabs_cleanlooks.png
> > Almost ok, IMHO. Its a little strange that you have two horizontal lines
> > due to the line between menu and toolbar and the new line from the tabs.
> >
> > Plastique: http://www.apaku.de/vardata/kdev_area_tabs_plastique.png
> > Here the problem with the two lines is a bit more visible as they seem
> > to be drawn thicker and with more space between them
> >
> > Oxygen: http://www.apaku.de/vardata/kdev_area_tabs_oxygen.png
> > This almost works perfectly as there's almost no horizontal lines
> >
> > QtCurve: http://www.apaku.de/vardata/kdev_area_tabs_qtcurve.png
> > Same problem as with Plastique and Cleanlooks, even though there's no
> > real line between menu and toolbar, but there's a change in color and
> > that also hovers the horizontal line from the tabbar quite a bit.
> >
> > So if possible maybe we can merge those two horizontal lines and have no
> > space between them?
> 
> I think merging the lines it not possible, as it is alone the styles who draw 
> them, and we cannot do many assumptions. Also the horizontal line under the 
> menu is drawn in another UI element. It would be ideal if we could just move 
> the tabs down a bit until they overlap that line, but no clue how to do that.

Yeah, I feared that. Not a big deal, especially since you've made the
line shorter (on my huge screen).

> I have changed the tab-bar line to fade out over 100 pixels instead of using 
> the whole range up to the main menu, this looks a bit better.

Hmm, I assume this is not forcing 100px right? Think about menubars with
huge fonts but an overall small screen...

> I wonder why you don't see the horizontal line in the oxygen style, it should 
> be there as well, like in the mockup. (Maybe after my last patch?)

Are you sure? This is trunk from last weekend (IIRC), so maybe thats
been changed recently? In general I thought oxygen goes for a look where
everything seems to be on the same "sheet" with no such things as lines
between the menu/toolbar/mainwidget.

Andreas

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