Hi,<br><br>Agree that many would like to maintain OS look and feel, is why in my application i give the user the option to set a own skin/qss style or to select the styles available in the OS.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/1/7 Marc Nations <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnations.lists@gmail.com">mnations.lists@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>That is an awesome looking app!</div>
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<div>In the past I've been able to overcome a lot shortcomings with gui toolkits with a healthy use of images. Even when I was using TkInter and the look was extremely outdated I was able to mask it by basically replacing as much as possible with foreground and background images. There are tons of free icon/image websites to choose from so that you don't have to spend a bunch of time building them. </div>
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<div>If you are interested in building them you can use apps like PowerPoint to create glossy looking buttons and backdrops. Gimp does some of this also, but takes a little bit longer. I'm not much of an artist, so I just like to go grab stuff I think looks nice. </div>
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<div>I don't know why some are so resistant to creating an app with a better look/feel. While I agree that it's difficult sometimes to balance useability with a "new" look, the first thing people are going to see is the nice coat of pain, not the engine. And first appearances go a long way when people are trying out software. Assuming it's also easy to use, then it can give you an edge when compared with other apps.</div>
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<div>Btw, I still haven't figured out how to use an image as a background in PyQt4 without it automatically texturing. I'd like to use an image in a 1:1 ratio with the size of the widget you apply it to, but used in the background so that text and widgets can be placed over it. If I try and scale it, you get the texturing. If I don't scale it, it just shows up in it's natural size which you'd have to manually set and then lock the app down with no resizing, obviously that's not a good solution. Anyone know how to do this?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">2009/1/6 Gustavo A. Díaz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gustavo.diaz@gmail.com" target="_blank">gustavo.diaz@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>I use purely Stylesheets+images in my App:<br>
<br><a href="http://opencoffee.lnxteam.org/trac/opencoffee/wiki/ScreenShots" target="_blank">http://opencoffee.lnxteam.org/trac/opencoffee/wiki/ScreenShots</a><br>
<br>Cheers.<br><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/5 Reinaldo de Carvalho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reinaldoc@gmail.com" target="_blank">reinaldoc@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Filip Gruszczyński <<a href="mailto:gruszczy@gmail.com" target="_blank">gruszczy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I guess many of us know the term 'programmers art'. I am well aware of<br>
> it, so I am avoiding as much as it's possible touch stylesheets and<br>> trying to work on them myself. I would like, however, to make my<br>> application look better. Maybe you know some simple tricks or know<br>
> some good style plugins, that I could use?<br>><br><br></div>If do you use a pure-gnome-system (wo/ kdelibs) its can to be usefull:<br><br><a href="http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/02/11/theme-qt3-applications-in-gnome" target="_blank">http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/02/11/theme-qt3-applications-in-gnome</a><br>
<br>> --<br>> Filip Gruszczyński<br>><br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Reinaldo de Carvalho<br><a href="http://korreio.sf.net/" target="_blank">http://korreio.sf.net</a> (Now available in English)<br><a href="http://python-cyrus.sf.net/" target="_blank">http://python-cyrus.sf.net</a><br>
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