Bug 540493

Summary: opensuse Air has a flat panel
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Forgotten User --EoyBps8f <forgotten_--EoyBps8f>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: badshah400, wstephenson
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Attachments: opensuse Air's flat panel + openSUSE wallpaper
original Air's panel + openSUSE wallpaper

Description Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2009-09-19 07:52:55 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-132.3 Firefox/3.5.3

The opensuse Air panel looks flat/KDE3 style compared to the original Air theme and thus less slick. If there is no important reason, I do not see why opensuse Air should not stick to the original but for colouring.

One could even argue that the original Air panel is easier to distinguish from the normal background, as you can see in the atteched screenshots.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2009-09-19 07:53:59 UTC
Created attachment 318945 [details]
opensuse Air's flat panel + openSUSE wallpaper
Comment 2 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2009-09-19 07:54:54 UTC
Created attachment 318946 [details]
original Air's panel + openSUSE wallpaper
Comment 3 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2009-09-25 19:53:26 UTC
pinheiro stated that this change was requested by llunak. I'm not sure why flatter is better but I would vote for sticking to the original.
Comment 4 Will Stephenson 2009-10-05 14:49:20 UTC
pinheiro said he just made this change as part of the tweaks for openSUSE.  I don't
Comment 5 Will Stephenson 2009-10-06 09:14:48 UTC
from the artist's mouth: "better contrast, white on white is not good contrasts, i also made some changes  in the non accell version to make it better looking, but i would like your feedback on it, If everybody likes it better 4.4 version will probably include parts of this :)"

So it's a feature, not a bug.
Comment 6 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2009-10-06 10:24:52 UTC
He seems to change his mind from day to day. Unfortunaltely konversation does not keep endless logs, so I cannot quote him.

My feedback: it looks kde3ish -> I prefer the 4.3 genuine panel. Since 11.2 ships KDe 4.3 and not 4.4, it should look like 4.3 and not 4.4, if those changes make it at all.
Comment 7 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2009-10-06 10:32:43 UTC
...it does:

[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:42:28] <rabauke_>	pinheiro: do you have a minute? did you change anything regarding the opensuse Air panel? It looks flat compared to the original panel.  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540493 has two screenshots that show that there is definitely a difference and I'm not sure why there should be, differeing colours would be enouhg IMHO.
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:42:32] <bugbot>	openSUSE bug 540493 in openSUSE 11.2 (KDE4 Workspace) "opensuse Air has a flat panel" [Normal,New] 
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:46:04] Betreten	_Brandon__ hat den Kanal betreten (n=Carlo@93-43-174-158.ip93.fastwebnet.it).
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:47:32] <pinheiro>	rabauke_: yes 
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:48:19] Beenden	rabauke hat den Server verlassen (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)).
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:48:20] <rabauke_>	pinheiro: is that going to be in KDE 4.4 or why is the opensuse one different?
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:48:22] <pinheiro>	rabauke_: just trying to make lubos more happy as he had problems with it
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:48:35] <rabauke_>	ah, ok, it was a request.
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:48:47] <pinheiro>	yes in akademy
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:48:49] <rabauke_>	pinheiro: so you think the original looks better, right?
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:49:08] <pinheiro>	nut sure
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:49:10] <pinheiro>	sec
[Freitag, 25. September 2009] [21:49:21] <pinheiro>	never saw them side to side