From kde-core-devel  Tue Jan 30 12:18:41 2001
From: m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:18:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Taskbar and panel broken stuff
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98085739210034

On Monday 29 January 2001 15:55, mosfet wrote:
> > > The taskbar is using QStyle::drawPanel instead. We should mark
> > > KStyle::drawkickerTaskButton obsolete.
> >
> > Why? We need that if we want themes to be able to theme the taskbar..=
=2E At
> > the least you should use drawBevelButton and not drawPanel, but havin=
g a
> > routine specifically for the taskbar buttons is nice and I don't see =
any
> > justification to remove it. Why make themes and styles less flexible?
>
> Any answer to this? If not I'm going to switch it back to being

Sorry, I'm back from a weekend trip, here is your answer.

> themeable... it's only one line. You have no idea how crappy it looks t=
o
> have a Aqua themed panel with ugly non-pixmapped rectangular task butto=
ns
> that don't match the rest of the UI. I'm actually curious about why you
> thought it was obselete - it's certainly not and is being used by sever=
al

I prefer consistency over themeability.

> styles. As a matter of fact, once KDE III gets started I'm thinking of
> adding new routines for the Pager buttons and the Desktop menu.

Please don't.

> Everything default in the UI needs to be themeable.

No.

> As a side note - drawPanel is wrong because this is used to draw a lot =
of
> other things in the UI (like the pages of tabs) that certainly shouldn'=
t
> look like a task button, and drawBevelButton is wrong because it's also
> used to draw things like headers and I could see why people (including =
me
> ;-) would like the two to look different. This is why I added the prope=
r
> routine months ago ;-)

Why should the taskbuttons not look like panels? IMHO it makes them look =
very=20
clean and polished. Is there any rule I'm not aware off that task buttons=
=20
should not look like panels? Maybe you are the one who really knows how t=
ask=20
buttons should look, but maybe it's just a matter of taste.

Ciao,
Matthias

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