Most resizeable widgets like PushButtons and ComboBoxes have a border - something like a 3D bevel or solid rectangle of some sort. KDE offers 2 convience keys to control these decorations. These are "Border", which draws a solid line around the widget, and "Highlight", which draws a 3D bevel. Both keys take the line width as a parameter, and both default to 1.
As with the other keys described so far, these go in the widget configuration group you want to customize. Here is a table showing different values in use:
Highlight=0 | Highlight=1 | Highlight=2 | |
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Border=1 | ![]() |
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Border=2 | ![]() |
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You can also have pixmapped borders, which will be described later in this HOWTO.
All the above images use a Win style highlight, which is the default. You also can use a Motif style border by setting the "ShadeStyle" key in the [Misc] group. This will change the style for all the widgets that use a highlight. Adding:
[Misc]
ShadeStyle=Motif
Will make buttons look like:
Instead of the default highlight of:
Many more little customizations are also available in the [Misc] group, and these will be described in the "Miscellaneous Options" section.