Re: [kde-artists] KDE style integration

Sven Brettschneider wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> KDE 4.3 looks great. I really admire the work of the programmers, 
> designers,
> 
> artists, translators and all the others who have made KDE grow so much in a
> 
> few years.
> 
> I have a few ideas to make KDE (my friends an my opinion) a little more
> 
> beautiful. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer (although I want to learn 
> C++,
> 
> but I don't know where to begin, so I have only made a few quick examples
> 
> (images). Watch them at http://www.seventho.nl/images/
> 
> All plasma widgets are using the theme you have chosen (eg Oxygen or Air 
> etc.).
> 
> The plasma desktop looks beautiful.
> 
> If you're going to open a program, for example Konqueror or Dolphin, you 
> can
> 
> see that the background of the window is gray. (or other colors if you
> 
> customized the colors.)
> 
> I'll show you the big difference between dolphin with air style and dolphin
> 
> with a gray background.(click here <http://www.seventho.nl/images/>). 
> Every program looks
> 
> better with the air style background (openoffice, konqueror, right-click 
> menu
> 
> etc.)
> 
I have to agree with you although I would say that it could work either 
way.  The point is that a KDE-4 desktop has three different styles:

	Application

	Window Frame

	Plasma (DeskTop)

This is not really new in KDE-4 except that the DeskTop didn't have a 
very apparent style.

This is not a good thing.  The only way to make the three styles match 
is to make a set of matching styles.  This was done in KDE-3 for the 
Application and Window Frame styles.

I have to say that my complaint is different.  I do not like seeing 
dialogs pop up with the Plasma style while I have an application open 
and the styles don't match at all.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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