ANN: TileQt version 0.1

[26 Feb 2006]

ANNOUNCE: TileQt, version 0.1

This is the first release of TileQt! Although a first attempt,
TileQt supports most of the tile widgets quite well, and is
stable (i.e. no XErrors or crashes).

~ What is it?

TileQt is a tile theme, which draws tile widgets with the
current (or any other) KDE widget style, thus making tile widgets
look native under the KDE desktop.

Of course, there are some glitches depending on the style used,
as not all KDE/Qt styles report accurate information about their metrics.
However, the most common themes (like plastic & bluecurve) work as
expected. Others (like keramic) may produce larger than normal widget
sizes (like vertical scrollbars), due to the large values their widget size
hint
routines return :-(.

~ What's New in 0.1

Although this is the first public release of TileQt, the project
is active for more than one year. Some recent additions are:

1) This is a stable release, when used with Tk 8.4 & > Qt 3.3.3.
No XErrors occur (which came from the QProgress widget),
nore wish crashing randomly on exit, after QApplication destruction.
(However, TileQt will still crash wish on exit with Tk 8.5, if a read-write
QComboBox is used (read-only are ok). I don't know why :-))

2) The extension is now thread-safe!

3) TileQt offers an experimental control panel, for changing the KDE
theme used by the application.

~ Availability:

Home page:
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40

SF Home Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/

Downloads are available at:
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40

Screenshots are available at:
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40

Feedback and bug reports are greatly appreciated.

-
George Petasis
Received on Sun Apr 30 02:16:01 2006