From kde-devel  Sun Apr 27 22:38:25 2003
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:38:25 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Theme Manager and Pixmap Styles.
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=105148335613615

On Sunday 27 April 2003 14:05, Alessandro Rossini wrote:
> > The current theme manager already supports styles and window decorations
> > somewhat, that is, the theme can specify a certain style or window
> > decoration. Unfortunately it isn't possible to _include_ a specific style
> > or window decoration, since that would mean including compiled code.
>
> Ok, but you're considering only engine styles like keramik, mofet's liquid
> or qnx for example.
>
> > I'm not sure if there is a good pixmapped based widget style available at
> > the moment. If there is it would make sense to add support for it in the
> > theme manager.
>
> Surely most people uses engine styles, because they're more performant and
> because they support transparent menus..., but for example my pixmap based
> widget style Acqua and Luna or the kde3 XP style of 'speleolalex' are still
> in the first places of kde-look.org (look at KDE 3.0 Styles -> most
> downloads).
> For these styles I had to do an install script because people really don't
> know what to do with the files...
> I'd like to port my Acqua in an engine style, but I've no time to do it :(
> At the same time I don't think that pixmap widget style is already dead.
> IMHO it's the only way to make people write styles without any knowledge of
> programming. A possible solution could be for example a sort of new skel.
> engine (keramik could be a good start point) where people only changes
> pixmaps to make a new syle.

Yes, you are absolutely right. I will improve the theme manager support for 
pixmap based styles / window decorations.

Cheers,
Waldo
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