Feature requests

[trmdi]

Some guys would love a transparent blur titlebar for Konsole, like what SierraBreeze and BreezeBlurred can do. Will you add such an option ?

[tsujan]

Plasma 5.14 should be released today and will come to my distro with a short delay. I still think that those box shadows have a problem when they're large but I'm ready to upgrade BreezeEnhanced as soon as Plasma 5.14 comes to Manjaro testing.

[trmdi]

/OT Sorry to bother you, do you have a way to make this be true? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399757 Read Chris Holand's comments. After hours played with C++ and Qt, KDecoration, I can not find one, because I'm not very good at them. I see you very good at those, can you give me some insights to continue playing with it. :P

We can get it to draw a non-animated button. Unfortunately, it's not animated. https://gist.github.com/Zren/40f657da96e4d8a29b13d74b74e956c5

What I want is to have animated buttons (from BreezeEnhanced) to be shown with QML.

[tsujan]

You're asking that from someone who hates QML and QtQuick ;) I'm serious; IMO, QML is the worst thing happened to Qt.

[tsujan]

This is one explanation: https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/1433 . There are others.

[trmdi]

Then I want to ask a Qt question.

I'm not saying about the only buttons like in the picture above. This time I created a fully client that has titlebar, window, border... from QML code, and it has the hover effect on close/min/max buttons like a normal window.

But when I try: connect(m_button, &KDecoration::DecorateButton::onHoveredChanged, [] () { qDebug() << "hmm..."}) it didn't work as expected when I move the mouse in and out of the buttons. m_button is a object of BreezeButton class.

What am I understanding/doing wrong with connect() ? Or those buttons are not objects of BreezeButton class?

• I added that connect in this section: https://github.com/KDE/kwin/blob/master/kcmkwin/kwindecoration/declarative-plugin/previewbutton.cpp#L116

[tsujan]

@trmdi See here:https://github.com/tsujan/BreezeEnhanced/blob/4269128339f581392bdfe66bc72fe8c0a2e82871/breezebutton.cpp#L57

[trmdi]

Yes, I mean this. But no qDebug() msg is out ??? (There are some typos in my comment above)

For example, can I create an small console app that show a qDebug message when I hover on those BreezeButton everywhere ?

(A stupid idea that I didn't test yet)

// sorry, I just started to learn C++ and Qt so I'm asking so stupid questions.

[tsujan]

For example, can I create an small console app that show a qDebug message when I hover on those BreezeButton everywhere ?

I can't be sure about anything related to QML because I run away from it ;) However, if you use qDebug() in a Qt/C++ program and if debug messages aren't suppressed on you system (they aren't by default), you'll usually see the message in the terminal.

That also depends on what you do in the terminal. If the program is an app and you run it from the terminal, you'll see the message. If it's a library and you run an app that uses it, it may or may not be seen because the app can suppress it.

[tsujan]

BTW, Qt Creator suppresses qDebug() messages in its own output. I don't know whose idea it was but it was a very bad idea.

[tsujan]

Maybe a real example could help:

I use a lot of qDebug() in Kvantum when doing complex things (and remove them later). kvantumpreview and many other apps show the debug messages when I run them in the terminal but, for example, smplayer shows nothing.

I think no Qt dev codes without qDebug() ;) It's the best tool for finding and fixing bugs.