From kde-core-devel Mon Aug 13 12:36:44 2007 From: Lubos Lunak Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:36:44 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Which styles to keep? Message-Id: <200708131436.45062.l.lunak () suse ! cz> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118700865431801 On Sunday 12 of August 2007, Fredrik Höglund wrote: > On Saturday 11 August 2007 16:15, Maksim Orlovich wrote: > > > The old widget styles include: > > > highcolor > > > highcontrast > > > kthemestyle > > > light > > > riscos > > > web > > > > > > These appear to be mostly ported by the Qt3 script. If they are to stay > > > I'll > > > port by hand but I personally don't think it's worth the effort for > > > most of > > > these. They don't hold up compared to modern styles and KThemeStyle at > > > least > > > is going to be obsoleted by the svg theme thingy. > > > > I think we do need highcontrast for accessibility. Web was never ported > > into 3.x, but I want to bring it back for 4.1 (should look sweet with > > AA)... But anyway, if you feel like finishing up the holes in KStyle for > > me :p .... > > I agree. I don't think those widget styles have any users these days, I use highcolor/B3 :-/. It may not hold up compared to modern styles in terms of flashiness, but I consider being easy on the eyes to be an advantage. > so aside from porting highcontrast, time is probably better spent finishing > KStyle and working on other areas of KDE. How much work is it to port a style? -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http//www.suse.cz