plasma kpart theming

[Dario Freddi]

On Sunday 23 January 2011 23:18:18 Marco Martin wrote:
> Hey all,
> today i hacked a bit around graphical styling of the Plasma kpart, that
> includes making svgs and fixing the newspaper containment/kpart code where
> needed (as result newspaper sucks a bit less on the desktop, yay ;))...
> 
> here it is:
> http://i.imgur.com/11ySf.png
> 
> the style (there are still some glitches, is to polish it up) is in
> playground, the patches are committed just in part.

Totally nice, even though there are indeed some glitches :)

I can see this style fitting very well in dialogs such as the "Tip of the day" 
one, and in wizards. In the long term, I'd like to see some kind of "welcome 
screen and setup your kde" on first startup based on that. I don't really know 
about the status of the Plasma KPart, but maybe it could be a good idea to 
ease the creation of such interfaces further?

> 
> The rationale is that the application dashboard for sure shouldn't look
> like a desktop at all (that is how would look definitely more dirty and
> more confising)
> 
> it rather should look like a document with quick recap info.
> so yes, in that screenshot it looks like a friggin' website and that's
> exactly the intent ;)
> 
> some important points:
> * the background is the same as the konqueror/kmail/etc "start page", *not*
> configurable (i think the plasma theme graphic used there would make more
> sense in those pages as well compared to the current old broken desktop
> theme) * the plasma theme has at the moment exactly 2 elements and uses
> where possible native widgets (the backgrounds will also use native colors
> with the new stylesheet support in Svg)
> * the newspaper has a big background for all applets (that is the main
> thing that makes it a "document" rater than "crome": that iage is not
> available in the default theme, so it will continue to -not- be there in
> an "usual" case
> 
> now, apart from feedback from artsy people, my greatest concerns is the
> usage if soo big pixmaps (the wallpaper and the big newspaper svg
> background) that makes quite a memory usage, but i think from the final
> look it's worth it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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