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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Roll over in KToolBar
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1999-06-01 7:00:08
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Sven Radej wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Matt Koss wrote:
> (...)
> >Rollover buttons change their pixmap when the mouse is over them.
> >This means that you need two pixmaps for each button.
> >You can see it in Netscape when you enter some toolbar button, it get's kind of
> >highlighted, but actually it is the second pixmap.
> >
> >You might say that it's a waste of resources, but as I said, it's very easy to
> >implement, and some applications could use it.
> Easy to implement. yes. There is even support for that in Qt (QIconSet, but it
> didn't work quite nice last time I tried, which was about Qt-1.40, I think)
> 
> I wouldn't say it is waste of resources. But, I'd like tohave features like
> this to be covered in our style guide. That is all apps should - if user
> selects so - have rollover icons in their toolbars or none.

Please make it a central (kcontrol) option. Otherwise apps will start to have
this option or not -- just like the colors of URLs in HTML widgets ...

--Stefan

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