Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-27 Thread Jud Craft
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Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-27 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Thursday 27 November 2008 16:13:57, Jud Craft escreveu: > I hate to be a whiner, but I would love to be able to color-tint any > theme. I don't suppose there could someday be an extra "Plasma Color" > in the KDE Control Center that would affect _every_ theme? > __

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-27 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 27 November 2008, Jud Craft wrote: > I hate to be a whiner, but I would love to be able to color-tint any this simply won't work for every theme and we made a decision to allow artists control over their work. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-27 Thread Jud Craft
I hate to be a whiner, but I would love to be able to color-tint any theme. I don't suppose there could someday be an extra "Plasma Color" in the KDE Control Center that would affect _every_ theme? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-26 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Daniel Winter wrote: > Am Monday 24 November 2008 23:40:03 schrieb Davide Bettio: > > Hi, > > > > Il Monday 24 November 2008 23:30:52 Jud Craft ha scritto: > > > I believe it has been expressed that the overall philosophy with > > > Plasma is that if you have 3d-compo

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-26 Thread Daniel Winter
Am Monday 24 November 2008 23:40:03 schrieb Davide Bettio: > Hi, > > Il Monday 24 November 2008 23:30:52 Jud Craft ha scritto: > > I believe it has been expressed that the overall philosophy with > > Plasma is that if you have 3d-compositing capability, you get > > compositing features. If you do

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 24 November 2008, Jud Craft wrote: > I didn't realize this. Does it work with any style? Could I have, > for example, a midnight-blue Oxygen, like in the early preview-shots > of KDE4? no, but you can have a midnight blue Aya. it follows your desktop colour scheme, if the theme says i

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Jud Craft
I didn't realize this. Does it work with any style? Could I have, for example, a midnight-blue Oxygen, like in the early preview-shots of KDE4? I hate to be so ignorant, but I'm actually running GNOME at the moment, and I didn't notice that feature in my KDE 4.1 setup elsewhere. But I may have

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 24 November 2008, Davide Bettio wrote: > I'm not saying that we shouldn't use composite, I'm just saying that we > need something nice just in case we can't use composite. the plasma policy is no hacking around the lack of composite. it'll result in hard to maintain hacks that often hav

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Davide Bettio
Hi, Il Monday 24 November 2008 23:52:48 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > Yes, my opinion is that this is so wrong in so many ways. > > If we copy the desktop background it will: > > * end up looking stupid because with compositing it will be "wallaper over > windows over wallpaper" we could disable i

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 24 November 2008, Davide Bettio wrote: > Any opinion? Yes, my opinion is that this is so wrong in so many ways. If we copy the desktop background it will: * end up looking stupid because with compositing it will be "wallaper over windows over wallpaper" * be even less performant than

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 24 November 2008, Jud Craft wrote: > I do wish that there were non-composited ways to add a touch of flare > to your KDE desktop, however; for example, the ability to color-tint > the current plasma theme (similar to what Vista does for the Aero > interface's taskbar) would be nice, as op

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Davide Bettio
Hi, Il Monday 24 November 2008 23:30:52 Jud Craft ha scritto: > I believe it has been expressed that the overall philosophy with > Plasma is that if you have 3d-compositing capability, you get > compositing features. If you do not, then you don't. There will be > no clever hacks to enable such e

Re: Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Jud Craft
I believe it has been expressed that the overall philosophy with Plasma is that if you have 3d-compositing capability, you get compositing features. If you do not, then you don't. There will be no clever hacks to enable such effects in a non-composited environment. I remember that there is a pos

Panel colors, background and compositing...

2008-11-24 Thread Davide Bettio
Hi, Actualy If you don't have composite enabled panel doesn't looks very well with some wallpapers, so I thought that we should use a simple workaround: we can get the current background from the desktop view and then we can do compositing on it. (Kicker used a similiar workaround for a lot of