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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: QPushButton problem with KDE styles
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-21 22:50:39
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Martijn Klingens wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 20 March 2001 21:32, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > Thanks for bringing that up. The solution is simple: change the
> > drawPushButton button functions in the KDE styles according to what the Qt
> > styles do (have a look at qwindowsstyle.cpp, for example).
> 
> Hmmm... I now have converted the b3, the kstep, the default and the highcolor
> style. But I'm having problems with the remaining three themes in my control
> panel: System++, System-Series and Marble. The themerc files of those themes
> are in a normal rc file format and do not refer to C++ code. How can I
> convert them?
> 

These are pixmap widget themes. The widget theme engine is in kdeui in:
kthemestyle.* and kthemebase.*. KThemeStyle contains the actual drawing
code. 

> Another question: the Qt code uses explicitly
> iconSet->pixmap(QIconSet::Small) instead of pixmap() or
> pixmap(QIconSet::Automatic) thus forcing small images. Why is this? I'd
> assume the programmer decides the icon size and not the style plugin. In
> order not to distort the size hinting and such I have used the same code, but
> it makes me wonder.
> 
> I have attached the current code for review as some people are afraid that I
> might change the look of certain styles. Please review and test, so I can
> commit. To test: add something like
>

Go ahead, we talked about it already ;-) 
 
> QPushButton *test = new QPushButton( SmallIcon("konqueror" ),
>                         "&Caption", this );
> 
> to your code.
> 
> When I commit this, can I add icons to existing buttons and dialogs when I
> have some time to spare, or should I only use this for my own code?
> 
> NOTE: These icons are actually supported since KDE 2.0, it's just that the
> themes didn't show them. There are no compatibility problems when using
> them. The worst that might happen is that the icons are not shown on pre KDE
> 2.2 systems.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Martijn
> 
> P.S.: the kdelibs/kstyles directory is a mess IMHO. There are quite a few
> directories that are _NOT_ used there: kstep-highcolor, pillbox,
> pillbox-highcolor. Also, the themes directory names a theme called 'beos',
> but there is no associated style on my system (although the themerc sais it
> does). And finally the naming convention for directories that actually
> contain something that is used in KDE is not quite the same: highcolor has no
> suffix at all, ksgistyle has the 'style' suffix in the directory name and b3
> for example has 'plugin' as suffix (b3plugin/). Very confusing if you're
> looking for the dir containing a given style.
> 
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>                       Name: kdelibs.diff
>    kdelibs.diff       Type: text/x-c++
>                   Encoding: base64
>                Description: KDE Styles patch

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