> - The Oxygen QtQuickControls style in its current condition (at least from > any Plasma Next screenshots and videos I've seen) looks unpolished as hell. > Labels in buttons aren't aligned correctly and there are other problems as > well. If we ship Plasma Next like this, everything looks beautiful... until > someone opens a GUI which was made with QML/QtQuickControls (which is all of > Plasma's own GUIs iirc). As soon as people do, what they get looks like a > crappy version of Plasma Current (aka "KDE 4"). > I don't think we want this. So if we want to at least be visually on par > with current Plasma, additional work would have to go into the Oxygen > QtQuickControls style (and according to David, a bug in Qt would have to be > fixed)
That particular bug in Qt has been fixed (by me) and is now merged. I'm not sure in which version of Qt though. > - If we get the QtQuickControls theme to look exactly like Oxygen QtWidgets, > Plasma Next will look at least as good as Plasma Current (presumably > slightly better for various reasons I don't need to repeat here), but it > doesn't really look "new". > - The "flatness" of Breeze doesn't really fit the "3D-ness" of Oxygen. > > So what options do we have? > According to Martin Gräßlin, wie should not ship an Aurorae theme as default > window decoration due to performance reasons. > What about a QML-based one? Would that be better, or does it absolutely have > to be C++? > > Would a QtCurve preset instead of a C++ widget theme work at least as an > interim solution, or would that cause too many problems? I've been running the QtCurve preset on both Qt4 and Qt5 for a while. It looks pretty good, even with the oxygen window deco. Performance 'feels' at least as good as Oxygen. Maybe someone can do some benchmarks (Alex ;) ) To me whether we switch theme is more a matter of whether we want to be conservative with the UI or all out exciting; there's sides to both, but no technical ones. The only problem I see is that we'd have to change the ~/.kde4 config so once they load plasma 2, if they then go back to plasma1 their apps would look different till the user changed it back. > Would it be okay to ship the new QtQuickControls style for QML-based GUIs, > but Oxygen for QtWidgets-based ones? That would be a /really/ bad idea. We don't want the user to have to care which tech happened to be used when we developed something. The kwin KCMs or Muon Discover would look /really/ broken as they are hybrid. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
