plasma and new shadow mess

[Weng Xuetian]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:

> On Monday 24 December 2012 17:12:22 Weng Xuetian wrote:
> > I think some action need to be taken before the release, some possible
> > solutions.
> > 1. Revert the changes of new plasma air theme, so old shadow can be used.
> > and try to fix all the things in KDE 4.11
> Personal opinion: the change should be reverted, as:
> a) it was basically a break of public API (yes even if it is not considered
> public API, the fact that everybody used it, makes it public API)
> b) there is no need for a break now with KF 5 in front of us, we could have
> used that to do the break

c) it causes unnecessary work for everybody
>
Revert the code will also cause too much problem now IMHO.. revert the
theme change thus we can use the old air which will reduce the impact to
least. I don't think 3rd party theme would use this new shadow feature this
soon.

> > or 2. get some header exposed to avoid duplication of the code, and fixed
> > every custom widget, at least including: kwin, kmix, powerdevil,
> icontasks.
> at least for KWin I will *not* accept a fix for 4.10. It's too late in the
> cycle, it cannot be exposed to user testing any more. I rather have a
> visual
> regression than the risk of breakage.
>
> Personally, I strongly dislike any kinds of visual regression/artifacts,
people in KDE have already done a great job for improving KDE SC, while
small visual problems always make KDE look much less polished and
half-bake, and I guess this is also what the extra mile project for.
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