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Re: "Classic" theme
by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 22/Mar/2008, @06:44

Another thing which I think is unneccessary inconsistency is the Run command dialog . It's OK that it uses Plasma widgets (which can be Qt widgets with widgets on canvas in 4.1) but why isn't it a normal window managed by the window manager?

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Re: "Classic" theme
by nuno pinheiro on Saturday 22/Mar/2008, @07:41

About consistency and plasmoids....
Personal opinion only.....
Its not about being consistent... if you wnat consistency use qt gui and make an app, plasmoids are not that IMO they are litle pices of somthing else and they are suposed to be like that .... againg if you want consistency for plasmoids ... there would be litle point on having plasma, plasma is about fredom to be difrent and do wahthever you want in a ui.... qt style has huge limitations couse of huge number of rules you must follow, plasma is an anser for that, personaly i heven dont favor the all loking alike plasmoids, (think plasma should send a set of rateher coerent plasmoids) but not much more than that, the rest is up to the user to decide, a kinda infinite fredom via svg tewking chosing on kde-look, website downloads etc.
making them coerent with the style is ...
1 impossible for an all grouds solution.
2 very limitating for the creators.

PS I wont make enteries to the Contest.

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Re: "Classic" theme
by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 22/Mar/2008, @08:35

Isn't it a design flaw of Plasma if even the default plasmoids, that everyone need, look in a different way from applications? You wrote that Plasma is about freedom, everybody creates their own look - this is exactly what I think is inconsistency. Different parts of the system shouldn't create their own different look, they should use the same look as the whole system.

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Re: "Classic" theme
by blubb__ on Saturday 22/Mar/2008, @09:50

I disagree. I don't think its a design flaw. In my opinion the panel doesn't belong to the applications. There are applications running on top and the panel in the background, and its ok for me if they look different, because they _are_ different, at least semantically.

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Re: "Classic" theme
by nuno pinheiro on Saturday 22/Mar/2008, @10:54

To clarify, what I have said are my opinions only.
About the pannel ..... ist very very complicated matter, I dont like the current look of the pannel think it should be redone... Making it look like the widget set in use is one idea, dough Im not sure it will deliver any beter results.
Im pretty sure it wont btw.
Again this are my personal ideas on the subject they dont represent plasma in any way.

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Re: "Classic" theme
by yman on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @08:43

I like the contrast between windows and Plasmoids. The way it's done allows you to choose whether to have it consistent or different, through mixing and matching. It doesn't have to consistent or inconsistent, because it's up to you to choose.

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