On 2/13/12, Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@...> wrote: > On Monday 13 February 2012 14:51:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> a) TDE has taken code many of us worked on for years and is taking it in >> the >> direction TDE sees fit. Not normally a problem, but in this case TDE often >> does >> a less than spectacular job of it. Diminishing someone else's work and >> doing >> the long-term users of it a disservice is not great, is it? Yeah, it >> annoys me >> when people use my software, which they still refer to as "kicker", with >> someone else's changes to it which actually make it less stable rather >> than >> more, something I worked years on to achieve > > Are you sure? > > This is http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=406411 your commit > after which the buttons on the taskbar in KDE 3.4 ceased to be visually > pushed, when using the Classic mode. > > The key line in file kicker/taskbar/taskcontainer.cpp before: > > Code: Select all > style().drawPrimitive(QStyle::PE_HeaderSection, p, QRect(0, 0, width(), > height()), colors, sunken ? QStyle::Style_Down : QStyle::Style_Raised); > > > after: > > Code: Select all > style().drawPrimitive(QStyle::PE_HeaderSection, p, QRect(0, 0, width(), > height()), colors) > > > > After reverting this change and restoring the removed parameter to the > function the taskbar works well again. > > I also have KDE2's installed on my system and I find it both more stable and > visually appealing than that of KDE3. > For instance one of the changes in KDE3 was using table caption widgets for > the taskbar instead of the provided > with Qt special widgets for the taskbar. The KDE3's kicker is more simply > looking, has no visual zooming when hovering > over quick launch items, and the buttons (including K-button) do not respect > the Qt style. It also has a serious bug with > K-menu positioning with some icon and Qt themes. > Maybe a little offtopic, but you got me curious. I used kde for the first time on slackware, I don't remember which wersion it was, but it was 7-8 years ago, and slackware version I had was quite outdated. I remember learning how to use it (and how to use linux at all) from the documentations and manual provided together with slackware. I remember there was something about enabling zooming of quick launch icons that was described as "something for mac people". I remember having it activated and liking it. When I returned to kde, it was on gentoo and the version was 3.5.10. I remember searching for this icon-zoom effect and I was surprised when I couldn't find it. It seems that I used kde 2 on slackware, and couldn't find the function I was looking for, because it was removed in kde3. I wonder, how difficult and in which way, this feature could be reimplemented into TDE? > Is that all improvement over KDE2? As I know you did not work on the KDE2's > kicker. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: > trinity-devel-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > >