From kde-core-devel  Tue Jul 13 10:46:53 2004
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Voigt?= <bvoigt () hs-harz ! de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:46:53 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: change colors in taskbar buttons
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David Johnson wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2004 07:57 am, Björn Voigt wrote:
> 
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>It seems that the taskbar applet uses normal buttons to show open
>>tasks. The looking of the buttons depends on the  choosen syle and
>>color theme. But  of what avail is it, to give the kicker a new color
>>or make it transparent, if the buttons of the taskbar has the same
>>ugly default button grey? Is it possible to change this color
>>independently to the other button-color?
> 
> 
> The widget used for Kicker buttons is not a QButton if any kind. It is 
> actually a QHeader widget (like at the top of your list of messages in 
> KMail). Most styles draw them using the color scheme's "button" color, 
> though a few use the "background" color. Thus, you shouldn't have any 
> problems getting Kicker buttons to draw in the button color.
> 
Hi David,

di you know some of this themes using
backgroundcolor for qheader widgets?

But I think it should not depends on theme. It should
be completely independent from the other buttons ->
another new kind of button, which can configured
with its own colorkey and could be rendered transparent

regards

Björn