Cursorsors: where?

Jens Reuterberg jens at ohyran.se
Thu Apr 24 07:38:20 UTC 2014


On Thursday 24 April 2014 07.28.28 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2014 23:10:41 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 April 2014 13:58:02 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 23 April 2014 13:53:56 David Edmundson wrote:
> > > > Right now we have an oxygen repo full of all different things (icons,
> > > > window decoration, qstyle)
> > > > 
> > > > We can make a Breeze repo full of all these new different things.
> > > 
> > > I think that's the best approach to it. We will hopefully soon see stuff
> > > like window decoration and widget style and so on. Let's move it
> > > together
> > > like with Oxygen.
> > 
> > Currently, both a widget theme and a windeco are in the making.
> > However, neither of them are C++ at the moment. There is a quite well-
> > progressing QtQuickControls style, as well as an accompanying QtCurve
> > preset, and several quite nice windeco themes (currently Aurorae-based).
> > All of them still need polishing, though.
> > So the next step after the design is done would be to make a C++ widget
> > theme based on the design of the QtQuickControls style, and after the
> > Plasma team has decided which windeco should be the default, a C++ windeco
> > based on that, right?
> 
> At least for windeco we will need a C++ implementation as Aurorae is not
> suited as a default component.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin

Which of course leaves us in the same predicament as last time - where do we 
find C++ programmers to finish this? 
(the alternative - ignore that use Oxygen by default and say "oh install 
aurorae on your own" would simply be a monstrosity in terms of design and lost 
chances)

/Jens


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