[Interest] [Qt Labs Controls 5.6] Customization recommendations

[Jérôme Godbout]

Sorry don't want to hijack the thread, but I just watched the video, that's
a great news that Qt is heading that way, we have many styles created and
it's painful to maintain and size them properly in every case. I'm super
happy about that feature coming. Is this will replace the full Controls
module or will it be into it's own module? Are you aiming to Qt 5.7 for
stable release?

Thanks, sorry again to jumping into that thread.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Ronan Jouchet <
ronan.jouchet at cadensimaging.com> wrote:

> On 2016-03-10 19:09, Nikita Krupenko wrote:
>
>> 2016-03-10 17:19 GMT+02:00 Ronan Jouchet <ronan.jouchet at cadensimaging.com
>> >:
>>
>>>    -> That sounds nice for users wanting total control over the complete
>>>       style. But suppose instead I'm mostly happy with Material and
>>>       only want to *override some attributes*, much like I would do
>>>       with CSS in a webapp, and as opposed to wholly defining control
>>>       sub-items {label, background, ...}.
>>>
>>>       Is there a way to do that? Following the documentation sentence
>>>       quoted above, I'd just copy the whole `material` folder and start
>>>       tweaking, but then I'd have to merge my tweaks with upstream
>>>       changes brought by each Qt release.
>>>       Correct? Is this the workflow you have in mind?
>>>
>>
>> You don't need to copy anything, you can just use button with Material
>> theme and override it's background or label. You can also tweak some
>> properties, like font or padding, that is used for creating and
>> positioning default background and label.
>>
>
> Hi. Two things:
>
> 1. Sure, that works for a one-time, isolated tweak. But I'm talking
>    about tweaking *all* instances of a control. Thus the need to
>    "overlay" or fork my own variant of Material.
>
> 2. Even in the case of  a one-time change, remains the question of the
>    granularity of tweaks. Suppose I have a checkbox for which I want a
>    green-colored label. Is there a way to only override the color
>    property like I could with CSS?
>
>    I am totally able to wholly re-define the `label` property:
>    label: Text {
>       // dozens of attributes I don't want to touch but have to
>       // copy-paste from the reference Material implementation
>       color: "green"
>    }
>
>    Whereas I would like to simply
>    // fails and logs `Cannot assign to non-existent property "color"`
>    label.color: "green"
>
>    So in this case I could `property alias labelColor: label.color`
>    and later on set `labelColor: "green"`
>    ... but the alias would have to be in the source CheckBox
>    implementation, and I'm back at modifying Material, which was what
>    I wanted to avoid initially.
>
>    Am I missing something? More generally I created
>    https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-51785
>
> Also, note, that Qt Labs Controls is a TP in 5.6. The label already
>> became contentItem in 5.7.
>>
>
> Yup, no problem with that, the documentation and "labs" namespace are
> pretty clear that the API isn't stable.
>
> 3. With upcoming desktop support in mind, would it be interesting to
>>>    add a third customization axis (alongside theme & accent) called
>>>    "density" that would adjust paddings like the [GMAIL] feature does?
>>>
>>
>> There is opened BR: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-51109
>>
>
> Thanks! Keeping an eye on this one.
>
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