Fwd: Re: Plasma themed tabbox

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Sat Feb 28 15:08:49 CET 2009


On Saturday 28 February 2009 13:42:13 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Attached is the diff for the Plasma styled tabbox after Nuno's visual
> review.
>
> Short summary of the visual changes:
>  * usage of smallestReadableFont instead of default font
>  * text is aligned to bottom instead of vertical center
>  * bigger distance between items (+2 pixels)
>  * active client has the "focus" background of task applet
>  * all other clients have no background
>  * font is not changed for active client any more
>  * minimum tabbox size is 1/5 instead of 1/3 of screen as the font's
> smaller
>
> I just searched for screenshots of tabbox and the oldest I found is from
> 2004 (from this mail
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=107557526413175&w=2). And since then
> the tabbox has not been visually changed at all except changing the frame
> style. So it's really time for it ;-) And thanks a lot to Nuno for his
> help. Here's a screenshot:
> http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3500/tabboxbigicons.png
>
> I also changed some other things like calculating the width includes the
> optional desktop name and when the tabbox is too high for the screen one
> more item is dropped to have a better visual appearance.

Very nice :)

One question, does it use the translucent graphics when compositing is 
enabled? (It doesn't look like it does...)
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sebas

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