> On April 25, 2013, 2:29 p.m., Thomas Lübking wrote: > > It's a definitively visual improvement with many themes (including and esp. > > air), but eg. (old) oxygen and several others still get me a black overlay > > that does not much look like a frame or window and with "opaquity" it's > > (surprise) *opaque* (ie. one side of the screen turns -near- black) > > > > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/ThemeDetails > > /translucentbackground.svg: a standard background image for plasmoids that > > for their nature are bigger and with not much text. In this case a > > translucent background looks better. It needs the same elements of > > background.svg in it. If this file is not present, the plasmoids that uses > > this will use background.svg instead. > > > > There's (unfortunately) no explicit requirement on that either this is > > translucent or exists at all (what will get us the regular "solid" > > background) > > > > For the beginning, i'd strongly recommend to elevate the to-be-tiled window > > over the "outline".
@Plasma devs: could you please clarify whether there is a theme element which is guaranteed to be translucent? I'll update the patch with the elevating code. - Martin ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110176/#review31550 ----------------------------------------------------------- On April 25, 2013, 10:58 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110176/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated April 25, 2013, 10:58 a.m.) > > > Review request for kwin and Plasma. > > > Description > ------- > > Change the visual appearance of the composited outline > > Uses widgets/translucentbackground as FrameSvg item to ensure that we > don't get a huge black square on the screen. > > When bordering a screen edge we disable the border except if all edges > are bordered. This makes a little bit more clear in the quick tiling case > what will be the geometry. > > Blur behind the outline does not work as: > * moving the window generates artefacts > * moved window needs to be above the outline, but outline needs to be on > top of everything. Elevating the moved window results in strange > side effects when moving the window "below" a keep above, etc. > > > Diffs > ----- > > kwin/outline.cpp ad3cfc01f6fa29010de6845d6c17a54e59d9474e > > Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110176/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > I tried various Plasma theme elements. dialog/* and widgets/background are > not useable as there are solid themes. > > > Thanks, > > Martin Gräßlin > >
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