[Development] extending the cocoa native style via a plugin: feasible?

2015-12-01 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, I'd hoped to make this a shorter message, so please bear with me... I'm currently working to facilitate deployment of the KF5 Frameworks (and dependent applications) on OS X, and looking to provide the best possible experience by supporting as much as possible of the KDE feature set. To

Re: [Development] extending the cocoa native style via a plugin: feasible?

2015-12-01 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Tuesday 1. December 2015 10:52:46 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Hi, > > I'd hoped to make this a shorter message, so please bear with me... > > I'm currently working to facilitate deployment of the KF5 Frameworks (and > dependent applications) on OS X, and looking to provide the best possible >

Re: [Development] extending the cocoa native style via a plugin: feasible?

2015-12-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 2015-12-01 09:03, Olivier Goffart wrote: > Are you talking about the additional roles in KColorScheme? Then I guess the > solution is to add them to QPalette. Yes, please :-). I was disappointed that QPalette didn't get to looking more like KColorScheme in Qt5. It's really useful to have

Re: [Development] extending the cocoa native style via a plugin: feasible?

2015-12-01 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Olivier Goffart wrote: > I don't understand why you need such plugins. I had hoped to make that clear... I had also hoped to avoid this turn in the discussion, at least not at once ... > Why would KF5 applications be any different than normal Qt5-only applications? Because they are? KF5

Re: [Development] extending the cocoa native style via a plugin: feasible?

2015-12-01 Thread René J . V . Bertin
A few images to replace a few thousands words more ;) I'm not yet at the point where I can build more complex KF5 applications, so I'm using Qt Creator as a source of examples; it's actually one of the Qt applications that I feel would benefit from a more compact design. The pure, native OS X

Re: [Development] extending the cocoa native style via a plugin: feasible?

2015-12-01 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Tuesday 1. December 2015 14:40:20 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Tuesday December 01 2015 14:33:55 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > Sorry, this got out before I was done typing > > > Actually, I think I ought to answer with a question: > > what makes KDE so special that it needs font role presets,