On 10 March 2013 17:49, Yuë Liu <yue....@mail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently Calligra looks ugly on OS X because many qt widgets don't > have good styles for OS X, to get pixel perfection, we have to wrap > native widgets in Qt codes. But adding ifdefs is uglier than this, so > we better use small library who has done the wrapping work. Qocoa is > for this. > https://github.com/mikemcquaid/Qocoa#readme > > Qocoa wrapped mac native widgets into qt widgets like qbutton, > qsearchfield, then we use these widgets instead of QToolButton, etc., > and for non-mac platform these widgets will fallback to normal qt > widgets, for example qbutton fallback to qpushbutton or qtoolbutton > depending on whether the button is inside toolbar. > > If we change all the qt widgets having bad look on mac with qocoa > widgets, we'll have perfect osx look and feel, and other platform > won't be hampered since there are fallbacks. Many qt applications > already using Qocoa for better mac integration, such as Clementine > player. > > To use Qocoa widgets, first we have to check what qt widgets need to > be replaced by qocoa widgets, what mac native widgets is needed but > not included in Qocoa, what homebrew widgets (such as KoGroupButton) > can be ported to Qocoa; then we can extend Qocoa to add more needed > mac native widgets and our homebrew widgets; finally we include > modified Qocoa and replace uses of normal qt widgets with uses of > qocoa widgets. > > What's your opinion on this? At leaset we need all the application > maintainers' support.
Truly native look&feel is always a great value. Similar applies to Windows (RT and classic), Unity (increasingly even despite they're dropping GTK+ for Qt!), other desktops. Isn't there API for use in QStyle? There was quite a bit. I have not investigated it a lot, questions: - is it maintained? - it would needs change for two reasons: license (not LGPL), naming (uses Q prefix reserved for the Qt Project); - the solution would be to wrap mac implementation within the KPushButton, etc. The current wrapping does not even use QAbstractButton - no matter how we wrap, out code would have to be changed deeply, what's killing readability; without wrapping, ifdefs are better because they concentrate the changes in one place; even .ui files could be adjusted this way, e.g. via using dynamic Qt properties, where we can set QButton::BezelStyle hints for the buttons (but IIRC there's no ifdef for .ui format so for non-Mac builds the code would be still generated) - the upcoming mix of QWidgets with QML and Qt Quick Controls for Desktop would rather ignore the Qocoa effort - finally, not to demotivate, but the main window to be fully in Mac-style would have to be designed from ground up; this applies to menus, floating windows, etc. This is doable if we get truly dedicated contributors that are willing to maintain that long-term; the question is there so large community on the Mac side -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org Qt Certified Specialist | http://qt-project.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
