A decoration can provide the AbilityAnnounceAlphaChannel in addition to
AbilityUsesAlphaChannel. If this ability is provided the decoration can
enable/disable the use of the alpha channel through setAlphaEnabled().
The base idea behind this mechanism is to be able to tell the compositor
that currently alpha is not needed. An example is the maximized state in
which the decoration is fully opaque so that there is no need to use the
translucency code path which would render all windows behind the deco.
In addition also the blur effect honors this setting so that behind a
known opaque decoration no blurring is performed.
Oxygen is adjusted to disable translucency in maximized state and Aurorae
is adjusted to allow themes to enable/disable translucency. For Plastik
translucency and with that also blurring is disabled.
REVIEW: 106810
Disable animations till the decoration is completel loaded. This
ensures that the buttons do not flicker because of the animation from
black to their respective color.
A component has the advantage that the width property can depend from
other properties. This does not work with the previous on the fly
construction as the width does not update when the referenced property
changes.
In the maximized state the enabled borders were still enabled causing
the actual borders to be still shown. In addition the padding is not
adjusted to be 0. This is done in the C++ part is it does not make any
sense to have shadows being thrown to another screen for a maximized
window.
REVIEW: 106576
BUG: 307365
FIXED-IN: 4.9.2
Adding a KConfigXT xml file and an ui file to configure the QML
variant of Plastik.
Currently supported options:
* title alignment
* title shadow
* animation of buttons
Missing option:
* colored borders
For each theme the setting can be enabled individually with the
default being enabled by default. It is completely handled
inside the MenuButton QML component so each QML theme benefits
from the option automatically, too.
BUG: 301327
FIXED-IN: 4.10
REVIEW: 106160
The Plastik decoration buttons are provided by a declarative
extension plugin as the canvas drawing API would be needed to
draw these buttons. This should be changed with Qt 5.
But it's also a nice example to show how a QML based decoration
can have an extension in C++.
