KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktoptheme/widgets

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> moving this conversation to panel-devel...
>
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > > SVN commit 792768 by tyrerj:
> > >
> > > CCBUG: 159981
> > >
> > > "Default" style Panel Backgroung SVG file modified to have the same
> > > boarder on all 4 sides so that it has a boarder when used in all 4
> > > edges of the screen.
> > >
> > >  M  +170 -365  panel-background.svg
> >
> > i think it doesn't look really well in panels that shows more than one
> > border (panels less wide than the screen)
>
> detail of *what* you don't think looks good about it would be helpful. i'm
> guessing it's because previously to this, the sides of the svg "faded" out
> as they reached the screen edge, which is cool.
i feel it has a wrong illumination that makes a blurred halo effect (if two or 
three edges are shown)
btw the problem of a somewhat wrong illumination is there also if the previous 
svg is flipped/rotated, so i can't think about a "real" solution at the 
moment

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> however, we've shipped several minor releases now with an svg that plain
> doesn't work at all for, e.g. top panels. we've had a few bug reports about
> this. i've forwarded at least one on to the oxygen component.
>
> the oxygen team hasn't had the time/resources to address the plasma theming
> issues. in the meantime, i'd rather have something that works than results
> in bug reports.
>
> > i think the multiple svgs should
> > be used in this case (the feature was implemented for the use in the
> > panel in fact), see
>
> i'd really like to see use of this minimized. unless there is good reason
> for it, e.g. lighting differences. this may well be one good use case for
> this, but i'd still recommend cautious/wise use of this feature.