> On Oct. 9, 2015, 10:51 a.m., Marco Martin wrote: > > I tried it but unfortunately I have several issues with it: > > * the first one, that may have avoided all the others: I discovered the > > existence of this thing just now. the default plasma theme is the one thing > > that > > I'm sorry this looks like a complete refusal of it :( but again all of > > those could have been avoided with a different workflow > > * It doesn't use the stylesheets, colors can't be dynamically changed (of > > all the issues, I consider this one the absolute showstopper). > > * there are embedded images that are used just as references (like in > > button) this makes the files heavier to load > > * actionbuttons won't work that way, it will break all round buttons that > > aren't radio buttons (as the checkmark won't be rendered correctly as well) > > * I really don't like shadows of one single pixel, especially in the > > panel/popups (while i don't like the plasma theme trying too hard to look > > like the desktop theme, the depth of the shadow was the one thing that > > should have been either consistent or even a bit more, as they are at an > > higher z-order than the other woindows) > > * besides being one single pixel, the shadow is wrong at the corner, the > > background is one pixel rounded, while the inner part of the shadow is > > square, leaving an hole of one pixel at the corner. On high dpi displays > > that would become very visible > > * I really, really dislike the taskbar, looks cluttered and somewhat "old" > > Marco Martin wrote: > anyways, I think i'll try to write a simple script or app to batch > convert monochrome icons to using stylesheets so even when icons from theme > and from plasma are mixed the colors would be correct > > Marco Martin wrote: > made a simple tool that applies the stylesheets to svgs replacing some > colors that come from the breeze palette, may still need some adjustments but > seems to work. > it needs the "xmlstarlet" commandline tool that should be packaged in > most distributions. > > Uri Herrera wrote: > I was never fond of having a Plasma theme that looked like it's having > it's own party and that the application windows were just invited to that > party. Different colors, different buttons, different icons, different > direction. It doesn't use stylesheets because here: > base.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/ThemeDetails that's not mentioned, > not once, not a reference and so I don't know how do they work, what each > value applies to and playing the guessing game it's not fun. So I went with > what I know and what I could figure out on my own. The embedded bitmaps are > just leftovers that I haven't removed. I used the plasmoids that are > installed by default to test the theme and I haven't found one that uses > actionbuttons, the checkmark in itself was wrong it was a tick when it's a > square in the widget style it doesn't make sense to me that it's different > and it's being rendered inside a button too. I didn't see either a plasmoid > that uses the radio buttons. Using heavy shadows is f ine for application windows, it's visually fine, but widgets are not applications and it's not appealing to have them use a heavier shadow than the applications. > > The taskmanager was absolutely confusing to me the way it is and it was > the second thing I changed after the icons. > > Marco Martin wrote: > i guess the plasmoids with not much shadow can make sense, i would really > like more shadow on panel and popups tough since they go over the windows > (and a quite pedestrian practical reason, i want to keep it quite visible as > is done in a complicate way passing it to kwin and we are porting the > mechanism to wayland, if it becomes almost invisible it may well break > without us noticing in the ongoing heavy refactoring) > > Uri Herrera wrote: > Ok cool I'll increase the shadow of the panel; by popups you mean the > tooltips and notifications?. > > Marco Martin wrote: > yeah, dialogs/background and widgets/tooltip
 - panel ![Tooltip] (http://i.imgur.com/sULyknd.png) - tooltip ![Dialog] (http://i.imgur.com/PMDG6I5.png) - dialog - Uri ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125568/#review86532 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Oct. 9, 2015, 8:18 p.m., Uri Herrera wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125568/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Oct. 9, 2015, 8:18 p.m.) > > > Review request for Plasma. > > > Description > ------- > > SVG elements done from scratch, reused only a small portion of the existing > files. Colors now match Breeze colorscheme. Buttons now match widget style. > Icons in the system tray are taken from the icon theme. Icons in Kickoff are > not monochromatic as only 16px and 22px icons are monochrome in Breeze. > Better padding overall for elements. New visual for both task manager widgets > that matches the states of the buttons. Checkboxes, radio buttons, sliders > and scrollbars now have the colors used in the Breeze colorscheme. > > > Diffs > ----- > > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125568/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > >  >  > >  >  > > > Thanks, > > Uri Herrera > >
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