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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kopete-devel] Skins for 0.5?
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () ism ! nl>
Date:       2002-05-29 7:43:39
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On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:58, Hendrik vom Lehn wrote:
> Ho do you find the idea of skins for kopete?

From my point of view I consider the idea horrible, I don't like skinned 
applications AT ALL. Instead, just give your entire GUI a nice, uniform skin. 
Skins were invented on operating systems that didn't support widget styles 
and I'd love to keep it that way.

That said, there still seems to be a demand for it for God knows what reason, 
so I cannot really object to it either :(

> I would be happy to do this or something else, that doesn't make too much
> work.

"that doesn't make too much work" definitely doesn't qualify to skins, because 
it's an awful lot of work. Basically you're inventing your own widget engine.

Hmmm... why not just make a GUI option to run 'kopete --style 
myCoolWidgetStyle' instead? It is possible to have a single KDE app use 
another style. In fact I do this when using valgrind, because my default 
Liquid style has some issues that can interfere with the actual output I want 
to see (besides Liquid being slow in valgrind). Just create some nice bitmap 
styles that are optimized for Kopete...

Martijn

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