Re: [kde-artists] KDE style integration

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On October 12, 2009, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
>> some of the reasoning for the difference, in the first place what you can
>>  do is plasma is not what you can do in qtstyle, they are very difrent in
>>  nature.
> 
> the visual distinction is a purposeful thing indeed and involves more than 
> just the specifics of the air theme. it draws a clear distinction between the 
> things that are "part of the system" (desktop shell and window management, 
> power and network management) and things that are "mine" (applications i 
> launch, documents i view/edit, etc)
> 
Yes, I agree with that.  However, the original poster wanted the themes 
to match.

I guess that I would just like a less "artsy" desktop theme.  My 
suggestion is really that we should have some sets of the three themes 
which match.

OTOH, I have looked into my original issue some more, and it appears 
that what I specifically don't like is only one thing and it appears to 
be a simple design issue.  It appears that the dialogs associated with 
the icons in the SystemTray should use the Application theme.  This is 
(AFAIK) true except for "Notifications and jobs" which uses the Plasma 
(DeskTop) theme.

This looks out of place when notifications popup windows appear as the 
result of something which you did in an application window.  These popup 
windows should use the appropriate style.  I suppose that that might 
mean that a style would need to be selected based on whether the 
notification or job was related to an application or the DeskTop.

OTOH, when you do a "job" in a folder view window, the popup window is 
the Application style which also doesn't match:

http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/kde/KDE-4/snapshot002.png

Note that the issue with the screen shot is that there are two popup 
windows and they don't use the same style.

This seems to be rather problematic.  So, perhaps this needs some thought.

In the meantime, I would suggest that the popup windows for 
"Notifications and jobs" use the Application style.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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