Hi all, Thanks a lot for all the feedback and positive replies.
Shantanu: a funny coincidence indeed :) We are trying our best to make it as good-looking as possible. I am aware of the OOo/LO integration, but they do not use KDE settings or rendering, AFAIK. Its more that it looks 'a bit better', not as clumsy/ugly as it does without the integration. Thanks anyway :) Hugo: maybe I should have mentioned that too, but we are aware of the GTK L&F and oxygen-gtk package. It definitely looks pretty good, but we wanted to make it look even better. Not saying we are going to succeed in that, but as said, we try. Anyway, its always good to try and make it as straightforward as possible, right? So if it is not necessary any more to use GTK, that's only good I think. I do know on how many projects you are working :) I've been using Oxygen Transparent for a while, which is beautiful! Furthermore I think I've spotted 'some' lines you wrote in the Oxygen theme, right? Anyway, thanks for giving us feedback, we appreciate it. Alex: huge thanks for looking at our code! As I mentioned above, we are definitely aware of the GTK L&F. I completely agree with you about letting KDE render everything. The only real reason we are not doing that right now is that we simply didn't/don't know how to get that to work. And even if one gets it to work, it should be fast, since you don't want a L&F to make a GUI slow (well, not slower than an average Java GUI is at least), which is hard for infant C++ programmers I suppose. We will certainly have a look at it though, certainly now we have this small piece of code working for the text rendering. Then again, thanks a lot for your feedback on our tiny piece of code, that contains so many bugs apparently :) We have fixed most things you mentioned (I believe Willem did yesterday, but I think he didn't commit the changes yet), although I'm not sure if Willem already managed to make the 'image copying process' faster already and if he worked on the strings. He did say not creating a new QApplication on every call made the drawing lots and lots faster already, so that's good. In any case, the changes will be on Git soon and I think we are going to let more components be drawn by KDE soon as well. Thom >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
