plasma, panels, colours

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 21:38:59 Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> > > FIVE PROPOSALS please have a look
> > > http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/test/
> >
> > an effect like the glass would require different backgrounds for vertical
> > panels also for the not 100& panels, so the panel theme from 5 prefixes
> > will go to 8.
> > themes would be harder to do (but still fallback to a single set for not
> > 100% no not a prob) but would they consume more memory? maybe caching
> > mitigate the issue right?
> > anyways i suppose it could be a good thing to do regardless of the theme
> > chosen, imo
>
> We could rotate it in software instead. It would keep the theme more
> simple, but also will make the shadow and light come from the wrong
> direction (which might also be a problem with glossy looks in general).
added in the panel code, now it searches for north-mini east-mini etc
if it's something that is not important for a particular theme aspect it still 
falls back to a single piece

cheers,
Marco Martin