On 15/10/12 18:44, Frank Hemer wrote: > On Monday 15 October 2012 18:35:01 Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Monday 15 October 2012 15:56:23 Bache-Wiig Jens wrote: >>> The main focus of Qt on the desktop is to provide a native look and feel >>> on >>> all platforms. Until now, Qt has come bundled with a few extra styles that >>> were not used intentionally anywhere. Historically plastique was designed >>> to blend with KDE 3.0 and cleanlooks in early Gnome environments. They >>> have long since been replaced by Oxygen and GTK+ styles on these platforms >>> but have been left in our repository for historical and compatibility >>> reasons. We certainly don't need multiple non-native looks and feels >>> included in every build of Qt so I think we should clean it up a bit now >>> that we have the opportunity. >> >> Those are not obsolete. They still ship with KDE 4, it just uses Oxygen by >> default. So I wouldn't call then "non-native", just "less common". >> >> Call me a hopeless case, but the first thing I do on a fresh KDE is changing >> the style to one of those two because I find them more visually aiding than >> Oxygen (they have better contrast and are less "flashy"). > > +1 here > +1 here too
>>> There are still a few use cases where including a non-native theme is >>> useful. This can be on platforms that don't have a desktop environment or >>> if an application wants to customise the colours of certain widgets. >> >> Changing color is not the only reason to change the style. There are other >> subtle differences - e.g. Cleanlooks displays labels on menu separators and >> looks almost completely native on Windows (I use it for exactly those >> reasons in one of my applications). > > Same for me but using plastique in one of my applications - with _many_ > addons. > I use plastique too in my apps. >> If I just wanted to change colors, I'd use a style sheet. >> >>> I expect it to have some more visual tweaks, but unless there are loud >>> protests, I would like to have this change in before the next beta. >> >> Does this count as loud protest? > > ++PROTEST > > Frank > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
