AW: Re: window decoration for dapper final?

[Matej Svejda]

Am Mittwoch, 22. März 2006 16:19 schrieb Javier:
> On 3/22/06, jos poortvliet <jos at mijnkamer.nl> wrote:
> > Op woensdag 22 maart 2006 14:28, schreef Chris:
> > > After reading Sebas' thoughts about the performance I think it's rather
> > > important now that the windeco for dapper is switched 'back' to
> > > Plastik. Why Plastik? There would be a wealth of other windecos for KDE
> > > that fulfill the requirements of professionalism and usability, but
> > > Plastik has very widespread use (no bugs to be expected) and with KDE
> > > 3.2 or so got a lot of performance optimizations. So all in all I think
> > > KDE is the best choice for dapper (3 years of use ahead) and is not a
> > > bad one either.
> >
> > i think you have a reasonable point here - performance is important, and
> > being bug-free too. personally, there is just one thing i don't like
> > about plastik's windec, and that's the fact it *always* wants to show a
> > thin line seperating the window from the decoration, instead of just
> > blending them. seems to be hard-coded, i can't recolor it or get rid of
> > it. and this is exactly the kind of thing that seperates gnome from KDE:
> > kde always seems to have these thin lines seperating stuff that doesn't
> > have to be seperated. plastik would look a lot cleaner if it just got rid
> > of that line...
> >
> > > Concerning the slight OT kbfx issue; I think it's cool, but such a
> > > change (by default at least) would involve a decent time period of
> > > evaluation and some usability tests first. Not a good idea at this
> > > point I guess.
> >
> > and it won't be finished for the next 10 days at least. well, guess
> > you're right. on the other hand, we could have a look at the finished
> > work - if its good enough, why not...
> >
> > > Personally I don't like such "complete program managers" instead of a
> > > simple starter that have more than one column anyway ;)
> > > Still I wouldn't mind a package of this in universe or main - that at
> > > least would ease testing and evaluation for a future release.
> >
> > that's the least we could do. but remember most ppl won't change their
> > default settings at all...
> >
> >
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> +1 on plastik.
>
> I would try to include kbfx in universe for people (like me) that want
> to play with it, but not as default for dapper.
>
> my 2€

+1 on plastik and +1 on changing the color scheme to a different blue.
BTW: www.czessi.net provides a kbfx kubuntu package.

Matej