Hi Ruslan, Thanks so much for working on this! I'm cc'ing the UX-advise guys, I am sure they'll be able to create a mockup for the generic tab look in Calc. IIRC, they even proposed a different ordering of the tabs and the buttons to move them, but I am not exactly sure if it is documented somewhere.
UX people - please see the details below :-) It is about the tabs that are in bottom left part of the Calc window to switch sheets; Ruslan made them to render natively (ie. uses the Gtk+ theme to render them), but unfortunately this does not allow their coloring. On 2012-07-12 at 18:35 +0400, Ruslan Kabatsayev wrote: > It seems there's no easy way for this. Some themes, e.g. QtCurve and > oxygen-gtk, don't have special color inside tabs (like Clearlooks or > Glossy have), and all we can do with them is rendering the colored > background and then the tabs, so we'll get ugly squares under tabs > (and I'm not sure if QtCurve has similar "translucent" tabs with > respect to background as oxygen-gtk). > > One way around this might be to render translucent rounded rectangle > fading to its borders under the text, but I guess this would look ugly > for most themes. > > So, maybe it was a bad idea to render tabs in native way at all. Maybe > we should just try to develop a generic tab look, which wouldn't look > as prehistoric as old ones did, and not follow native style (native > styles already don't have trapezoid shaped tabs)? > > > Do you think this regression would be something you could take care of, > > should someone else tackle this? > I think I'll take care of it as soon as I have some ideas on how to do > this best. I'd like to hear from someone else what they think. All the best, Kendy _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
