[p4] Fwd: p4v 2007.3 and Qt "styles"

[Rick Macdonald]

I looked a little harder, and made a list of the styles that I know of 
from my use of Qt3, plus what I found by searching through the output of 
"strings p4v". The "SGI" style from Qt3 seems to be gone; no problem for 
me; I never used it.

Personally, I prefer the style from the list at the end, except I like 
when the middle mouse button will warp a scrollbar to where you click in 
the trough. I don't know which style name actually gives the style in 
the last list, since any string at all gives this style, as you can see 
from the last entry!

Default:

p4v -style=plastique  (very light bluish color widgets; middle mouse 
button operates scrollbars)

Unique in some way:

p4v -style=motif  (triangle tree icons instead of +/-; middle mouse 
button operates scrollbars)
p4v -style=cde (same as motif, but purple-ish color)
p4v -style=cleanlooks (similar to the list below, but overall widgets 
are much lighter beige, almost as light as the default bluish plastique)

All these look the same (+/- folder icons) . There may be some subtle 
difference that I didn't spot.

p4v -style=aqua
p4v -style=common
p4v -style=macintosh
p4v -style=motifplus
p4v -style=platinum
p4v -style=windows
p4v -style=windowsxp
p4v -style=jeffbowles

Rick

Jeff A. Bowles wrote:
> If possible, could you please tell us what sorta places we could look 
> at, on a user's machine, to experiment with this sort of color / font 
> / display issue?
>
>   -Jeff Bowles
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Rick Macdonald* <rickmacd at shaw.ca <mailto:rickmacd at shaw.ca>>
> Date: Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [p4] p4v 2007.3 and Qt "styles"
> To: Stephen Vance <steve at vance.com <mailto:steve at vance.com>>
> Cc: Perforce Users Mailing List <perforce-user at perforce.com 
> <mailto:perforce-user at perforce.com>>
>
>
> I certainly will, but I'm hoping there's an environment variable or a
> setting in ~/.p4qt or elsewhere...
>
> Rick
>
> Stephen Vance wrote:
> > Submit a bug/enhancement request to Support?
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Rick Macdonald wrote:
> >> I've just switch to the latest p4v, 2007.3. The default style is
> >> sickly pale looking to me. Too little contrast between widgets and
> >> frames, and the whole thing is light, bright, and hard on my eyes.
> >>
> >> The command line -style argument seems a bit flakey. Most styles,
> >> such as -style=sgi don't seem to do anything. In fact, other than
> >> "cde" and "motif", every other style looks the same. Even
> >> -style=foobar changes from the default to what you get with the other
> >> options such as -style=windows.
> >>
> >> Anyway, this is fine except when p4v launches the merge tool. It
> >> doesn't pass the style setting on the command line:
> >>
> >> rickm     6005  0.6  0.7  34288 15000 pts/4    S    10:02   0:00
> >> /home/rickm/SCM/GCTSCM/sccs2p4/tools/p4v-2007.3.151553/bin/p4v.bin
> >> -merge -nb //gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.01/xy2xy.F#1 -nl
> >> //gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.04/xy2xy.F#2 -nr
> >> 
> /home/rickm/SCM/GCTSCM/sccs2p4/tools/cvs2p4/convdir-main/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/xp/xy2xy.F
> >> -nm Merge file used for resolve -ll Source: -rl Target: -C none
> >> 
> /tmp/rickm(p4v)/timshel_localhost_1666/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.01/xy2xy#1(BASE)[0].F
> >> 
> /tmp/rickm(p4v)/timshel_localhost_1666/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.04/xy2xy(THEIR)[0].F
> >> 
> /home/rickm/SCM/GCTSCM/sccs2p4/tools/cvs2p4/convdir-main/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/xp/xy2xy.F
> >> 
> /tmp/rickm(p4v)/timshel_localhost_1666/gct/batch/src/modules/xy2xy/v3.04/xy2xy(MERGE)[0].F
> >>
> >>
> >> I realize this is more of a Qt question, but does anybody know how to
> >> get a style setting to the merge tool when launched by p4v?
> >>
> >> Rick
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