Bug 74054

Summary:	proper widgets should be used for list and menu checkboxes
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Tom Gilligan <tom14>
Component:	kstyle	Assignee:	Karol Szwed <gallium>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	andresbajotierra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	current appearance of menu what menus could possibly look like Current Noatun Configure Dialog what lists could possibly look like

Description Tom Gilligan 2004-02-03 09:59:24 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.3.1 
OS:          Linux

Toggle items in menus currently are sunken grey X's.  A lot of KDE apps would look a LOT nicer with check boxes in the menu or radio buttons if appropriate.  There is the same sort of problem with toggles in lists as used for example in the Noatun configuration dialog.  
I am going to attach some screenshots of current appearance and mockups of how much better it would look. :-)

Comment 1 Tom Gilligan 2004-02-03 10:01:50 UTC

Created attachment 4502 [details]
current appearance of menu

Notice the X's...
grrr, it burns my eyes

Comment 2 Tom Gilligan 2004-02-03 10:03:19 UTC

Created attachment 4503 [details]
what menus could possibly look like

IMHO, much better

Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2004-02-03 10:23:32 UTC

did you try different GUI styles?

Comment 4 Tom Gilligan 2004-02-03 10:31:28 UTC

Subject: Re:  proper widgets should be used for list and menu checkboxes

Its the same with every style.

Comment 5 Tom Gilligan 2004-02-14 11:40:10 UTC

Created attachment 4688 [details]
Current Noatun Configure Dialog

Notice the black boxes, this same style of checkbox-in-list is used in other
apps as well.

Comment 6 Tom Gilligan 2004-02-15 08:43:52 UTC

Created attachment 4698 [details]
what lists could possibly look like

Here is a mock up of something that looks a bit better.
And yes, I did make a mistake, checkboxes in menus do change with styles, its
just that many styles that a based on Keramik haven't been bothered changing
this.  One style that does do this well is .NET.  And yes, I realize that this
is a very minor thing that I shouldn't be posting attachments for. ;-)

Comment 7 Dario Andres 2009-05-02 23:20:21 UTC

Qt: 4.5.1 (qt-copy  958974)
KDE: 4.2.71 (KDE 4.2.71 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090428))
kdelibs svn rev. 960693 / kdebase svn rev. 960693
on ArchLinux i686 - Kernel 2.6.29.1

Both Plastique(Plastik@Qt4) and Oxygen use proper widgets for the checkbox/optionbutton in the menus. (You can check it in Kate Tools menu)