Planned future theme features

Widget Masking

Partially implemented already, this feature will allow you to supply a bitmap mask drawn in you favorite paint program and use it to define widget shapes. For example, you can draw a bitmap in the shape of a diamond, tell KDE to scale or tile it to the size of the widget, and have KDE use that for the shape of the widget. In this manner you can have resizable widgets of virtually any shape you can think of. Very cool.

A Few More Widgets

AFAIK all the main widgets are supported except the line and multi-line edit widgets. These are easy to implement just using tiled pixmaps but in order to have full support I'll be hacking Qt. Expect this for the next major Qt release.

Dedicated Pixmapped and Gradient Plugin

As an alternative to the fully themed plugin I would also like to do a plugin that has built-in pixmaps and gradients that adjust to the current color scheme instead of reading a theme configuration. Kind of a dedicated mini-themed style. Performance isn't really an issue here - KDE's theme classes has always been very fast and low in memory consumption - but it seems like a cool thing to do anyways. It will probably will be designed to match the System theme.

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