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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: System Settings as a Design Lesson
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2008-12-03 21:25:47
Message-ID: gh6tgr$360$2 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
>> http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/system-settings-as-a-design-
>> lesson/#comment-157265
>>
>> TheBlackCat has some nice mockups of how you could dress up a header.  This 
>> would probably also look good in Dolphin.  Should we ask the Oxygen people for 
>> ideas or is this bust?
> 
> Looks really nice, but I am bit concerned about how the header 
> background would scale in a case where we have long and short header titles.
> 
> Here is a simpler idea:
> 
> http://www.imagebam.com/image/7cde7e19916928

That looks... very nice :-)

> But I am sure Oxygen people can come up with something much better.
> 
> For example one could imagine a header drawn the way the Oxygen style 
> draws group boxes. Something like this (crude Designer mockup):
> 
> http://www.imagebam.com/image/51131e19917903

That... no so much ;-). Actually, I am thinking softening the edges 
(since Qt doesn't let us draw styled frames the way we really need :-( ) 
would be good, but mostly I am liking the first one.

This can be done per-style, right? :-)

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