theme idea

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> (replying as a user)
>
> I would say yes. I would like to see plasma using more "native" themes. It
> feels "not kde-ish" to me.
>
> (replying as a developer)
> Above all - think about the how hard and buggy this implementation would
> get. Can  you have it stable by KDE 4.4? KDE 4.3 have it as a fall back,
> for "testing only" with an hidden
> command-line/environment-variable/configuration-option for testers.
> Specially if this would (even in theory) make plasma-desktop unstable.
nah, doesn't make it unstable, would be a very very little patch, it would be 
incomplete however since not all plasma widgets are proxywidets (no taskbar, 
no pager, no default applets background) it could be used qstyle to draw 
directly but that yeah that would be a bit overkill indeed, it would 
eventually come in the future perhaps
don't think that will ever look good, but...

> Just my 0.2 cents
>
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 21:50:32 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > hi all ..
> >
> > some users seem disturbed that plasma "looks different". while i think
> > they are rather completely missing the point (which is "yes, the shell is
> > meant to look different") it did get me thinking about things ...
> >
> > when a theme doesn't include a given widget svg, right now we fall back
> > to the default theme. i wonder if it might be interesting to let themed
> > Plasma widgets such as the pushbutton fall back instead to the
> > application QStyle.
> >
> > this could be accomplished by simply not falling back to the default
> > theme for these elements or (i think probably more safely?) by having an
> > entry in the theme's .desktop file that says "use system widgets".
> >
> > then in widgets like PushButton the paint method could check for which
> > way the theme wants to go and use the normal QGraphicsProxyWidget's paint
> > method in that case.
> >
> > thoughts?
>
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