On Saturday 11 October 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Well, the main thing I'd likely be interested in is integration with > KDE's color scheme. (I'd also like to see Qt pick up more of it, but > that seems unlikely, at least in the short term.)
This is one I don't really know much about in practice, but part of the theory behind Qt4 was that it was supposed to pick up more of the look and feel of wherever it was, and do a better job of blending than Qt3 did. Back when I hung out on Ubuntu Studio Users, there was a large and vocal faction that really seemed eager to see a pure Qt4 Rosegarden, because it would blend in more seamlessly with their favorite desktop. As far as that goes, I've had a pet idea for a long time to follow the Hydrogen model, and just define our own look and feel. They exercise a high degree of control over their own colors, buttons, and pretty well everything except the main window decorations, and they don't have to worry about lookind different here there or anywhere. That kind of idea could work if we came up with a universally acceptable look, and all of this runs directly counter to your wanting to make an effort to pull our colors from KDE4 if it's running. Pulling our colors from KDE seems to be the current state of affairs, and I've seen this as a mixed bag over the years. I take more screenshots than anybody, and having the look of my Rosegarden vary with my mood on a given day does pose minor but irritating problems for me that probably wouldn't affect ordinary users. Just because I'm not an ordinary user though, I still vote in favor of making my own job as easy as possible. :) Another issue is with our black icons. We have a lot of black icons, and they're invisible against black backgrounds. Users can pick black backgrounds, and make our icons invisible. We've never been able to come up with a decent solution for that in terms of tweaking the icon set, and controlling everything about our own presentation could definitely be a solution. > But there are other > possibilities; imagine opening a document with a few staves of music and > clicking on it, and up pops RG! Can you explain this in more detail? I don't follow. > There's also little things, like getting Oxygen (or whatever theme is in > use) icons cheaply, KDE standard actions, etc. One complication to think about in all of that is that if we're even primarily a Qt application, we have to do all of that sort of thing one way, and if we're a KDE application, we have to do it another, different way. One of the advantages Chris and others are advocating for this switch is that we get to bundle all of our resources in one place, and we no longer have to deal with issues like SuSE installs our help in some stupid place for a mysterious reason, and so forth. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
