Toolbox Brainstorming

[Craig Duquette]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 16:05:03 Alex Merry wrote:
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Craig Duquette wrote:
> > Yea I liked the fade to nothing patch. The only problem I had was
> > there was no animation when the toolbox expanded because the
> > expanded part was invisible. Not sure if it's possible to have it
> > fade to nothing unexpanded, then when expanded we'd expand 
the
> > gradient so it'd still be fade to nothing, but expanded so the user
> > gets a sense hoving does something. The current toolbox design 
fades
> > to nothing on the expanded form, which gives the user a sense 
of
> > movement on mouseover, while being somewhat visually 
appealing.
>
> The patch I just posted does exactly that.
>
> Alex

Cool! :D
Attached is a patch to use plasma's theme colors for the toolbox, 
what do you think?

@Aaron can I get a bigger hint on how to antialias the unexpanded 
toolbox? I see you mentioned the use of setClipping and clip more of 
the toolbox, but I'm not sure how that function works as it takes in a 
QScriptContext and a QScriptEngine (?).

~Craig
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