Review Request: style on the taskbar group menu

Fredrik Höglund fredrik at kde.org
Tue Nov 4 01:57:19 CET 2008


On Monday 03 November 2008 23:33, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2008, Fredrik Höglund wrote:
> > I also don't think it's a good idea to abuse the tasks-hover background for
> > the highlighted item, since this imposes a significant design limitation on
> > the theme in that the taskbar button background has to be drawn in such a
> > way that it also works as the highlighted menu background. I think the
> > theme should provide a separate element for highlighted menu items.
> the idea was to resemble the task entries because in the future that would 
> probably become a graphicsview with the actual tasks inside it
> just an idea maybe won't be done in that way, but the idea was to make it more 
> look like the taskbar than a menu...
> if in the end will be decided to leave it as a menu like that yeah, an element 
> just for menus could make sense yeah.

I was thinking of consistency with other applets that open up similar menus.
The folderview applet will do this when it's on the panel for instance.

Fredrik



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