On Thursday 10 September 2009 2:29:09 pm Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On September 10, 2009, alanm wrote: > > I have a plasmoid (in Python) which uses Plasma.ToolButton widgets. I > > would like to allow the user to override the default style (taken from > > the plasma theme) of the buttons (for instance, to change > > font/size/colors). > > why? > Basically, I'm creating a launcher something like quicklaunch that allows you to use text instead of icons. Since the text is the main focus of the plasmoid, I wanted to give the user the ability to customize it a bit. Using the built in style works OK, but depending on screen size/font size/plasma theme it might be nice to adjust this (cf. the digital clock plasmoid).
> > - First, I find that if I give the button a stylesheet using > > setStyleSheet(), the style sheet in use is totally blown away. Is there > > yes; that's due to how it works in Qt (which is "not overly well"). > stylesheets are orthogonal to the svg styles we currently use, so we fall > back to what Qt can provide when it comes to style sheets. you are then > within the limitations of Qt at that point. > Is there a better way to make these kinds of small adjustments apart from style sheets? > > - Second, if I must override the entire style sheet for the button, how > > do I set the hover style of the button? > > what exactly are you trying to achieve? > I don't really need to adjust the hover style and whatnot, but if I have to recreate the whole stylesheet to adjust anything, I wasn't sure how to go about recreating those sorts of things. If there's a better way to accomplish all of this without style sheets then it's moot. Thanks . _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
