Yesterday it has been a really productive day, we could finally hack toghether for the whole day.

Casper and Nuno sit altogether to check the consistency of all the elements of the style and listed on a piece of paper the name of the elements which still needed some fixing or some revising.
The most urgent parts have turned out to be the groupboxes, the lineedits (and all the widgets that use its drawing code, like the spinboxes), and the buttons. The main problem with groupboxes seemed to be the consistency of corners, their radius was not always the same, it was way too white on top and it was detaching too much from the background. It even seemed to be of another material. Casper hacked a bit and fixed all those stuff during the day with the help of Nuno.

Another nice thing we’ve been working on is the palette - we chose the colours we’d have begun with, and started all our work from there. The actual KDE default palette is just not good enough, and specifically made for Plastik/similar.
Specifically, we radically changed the background color, setting it to a really nice gray. With that, it has been made possible to adjust the two gradients there are on bg.

On the style, all the (useless) space that the scrollbars were using has been completely removed. Now they look much more slim and clean.
David even came up with an idea for the new scrollbar that we will implement, here’s his mockup (really basic, but still effective):

In the meantime I was working on the windeco, and managed to finish all the buttons, including colour changing when hovering, etc…, and it’s 97% completed by now. I’m not posting a screenshot yet because I’m waiting for Thomas to commit some code about authomatic propagation of the gradient pixmap from the style to the windec. That’s also the reason why I’ve chosen not to commit yet - I don’t want to cause any conflict to him. Please do not ask me about windeco screenshots, I won’t make them until his code is there; when it is committed, I’ll do it before you could even ask me to show you that amazing stuff (perhaps a screencast as well).

We have also thought of a lot of other cool effect to implement, Nuno is a really creative guy. The best thing he proposed, IMHO, has been about the replacement for the selected effect in lineedits and derivate widgets. and you will see that soon in a screenshot…

We had dinner in a really cool place near here, a bit expensive, but they cook really in an awsome way. Nuno enjoied very much (as always) the food, and we came back more or less at 1:00 PM, full but happy. If you want the address and the telephone number, just ask me privately, and I’ll give it to you. =)

Stay tuned for screenshots (they will come tomorrow) and some further pic (in the next post, hopefully tonight)
Bye!