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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: FW: [Kwin] A tweak for kicker.
From:       Fred Malabre <fmalabre () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-10-25 13:17:04
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It looks nice, but it would have to be consistent with the left arrow to 
compress the bar to the left.

Otherwise, just curious, what is your window manager?
It's rather pretty and I haven't seen it before.

Fred.

On Friday 25 October 2002 05:47 am, Laur Ivan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure about the list to which I should send this given that is a
> devel and a kwin thing :)
>
> ...so here it goes.
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have noticed a while ago that some people don't really like the
>
> black
>
> > arrow in the upper left corner of all kicker buttons popping up menus.
> > And since everything was silent for a while I assumed that no one had
> > time for it :). So I've started to tweak the sources hoping for a
>
> total
>
> > replacing of the buttons' arrows in kicker with pixmaps
> > (see http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?file=3650-1.png -
> > 300k).
> >
> > Well, I can replace only the menu-specific buttons in the kicker
>
> itself
>
> > (aka the "K" and any other buttons) but no applets' buttons (yet). I
> > have a really tiny patch to go with kicker but there are several
> > problems:
> > 1. is it useful? I mean: are there any reasons not to be added in the
> > current cvs?
> > 2. can I get access to the cvs to add it? Well, the idea is I'd like
>
> to
>
> > contribute more that just this in the eyecandy-er domain and maybe
>
> other
>
> > bits as well.
> > 3. Where should the pics be loaded from? Now I have them in the apps
> > (32x32) icons family of crystal. The problem here is they are loaded
> > using KIconLoader, which (unfortunately) scales the image to the
>
> default
>
> > size (ie 32x32). Maybe I was too tired, but I haven't seen any "don't
> > scale" option in kiconloader. I see 2 options:
> > 	- I could use the resource version and put the icons somewhere
> > in the kicker resources... but that would lead to separate packages
>
> for
>
> > kicker (... kicker themes..?)
> > 	- define a fixed dimension for icons (eg. The image representing
> > the arrow cannot be bigger that 7 pixels) and use that to calculate
>
> the
>
> > image's offsets.
> > Can anyone help me on how could I create some small icons in the 32x32
> > apps let's say and load them via kde (iconloader or else) without
> > changing their size?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Laur
> >
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