I'll fourth the motion! Grab your pitch forks and touches.
Haydania-Capri Hummel Founder of Oscailt Foundation, Inc. "It's what you make it; it's fate in your hands not ours..." -----Original Message----- From: Frank Hemer <[email protected]> Sender: development-bounces+oscailt=oscailtfoundation.org...@qt-project.org Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:44:24 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Development] Replacing Cleanlooks and Plastique 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 have long since been replaced by Oxygen and GTK+ styles on these platforms 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 > > 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. > 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
