Mike
McBride
2001-07-22
2.20.00
KDE
KControl
style

# Style

## Introduction

This module is used to configure how the individual widgets are drawn by &kde;.

A Widget is a commonly-used programmer's term for referring to User Interface elements such as buttons, menus, and scroll bars. You can think of them as the fundamental pieces that are assembled to make your application.

You can configure how the widgets are drawn with this module, but to change the color of the widgets, you should refer to the section entitled Colors.

This panel is divided into three sections.

### Widget styles and themes

The top list box, contains a list of the pre-defined styles. Each style has a name, and a brief description.

To change styles, simply click on the style name, and press Apply to see what the new widgets look like.

### Other settings for drawing

This small section has only two options.

Menubar on the top of the screen in the style of MacOS

  This will turn on a menubar at the top of the screen. This menubar will reflect the menu options of the active application.

Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps

  If this option is enabled, &kde; will try to force all applications to use the &kde; colors and fonts. This usually works, but certain applications may behave oddly.

### Style options for toolbars

This section of the panel is used for toolbars in &kde; applications.

Style options for toolbars

  This option determines how toolbars will be displayed. There are 4 options: Icons only, Text only, Text aside icons, and Text under icons.

Highlight buttons under mouse

  When this option is enabled, any time you move the mouse pointer over a button, the button will light up, to give you feedback. When disabled, the button does not change at all.

Toolbars are transparent when moving

  If this option is enabled, toolbars will appear as a rectangle while they are being moved. If this option is disabled, the toolbar will contain all graphic elements when being moved.

### Effect options

Here you can set up some visual effects for menus, combo boxes, and tooltips.

These are very processor and memory intensive, so you may wish to disable some of them.

For menus, you can choose to have No menu effect, or you can Fade menus, where you will have menus fade on to your screen, or Animate menus, which will give you menus that appear to slide out as you click on them.

You can likewise animate combo boxes, by checking the box labelled Animate combo boxes

Tooltips are the small phrases that appear if you hover your mouse button over an icon. You can disable them here, by checking the Disable tool tips checkbox.

If you like the tooltips, you might like them even more with some visual effects. You can choose between Plain tool tips, Fade tool tips which appear to fade onto your screen, or Rollout tool tips, where the tooltips seem to unroll from under your mouse cursor.

## Section Author

This section written by Mike McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com

Updated for &kde; 2.2 by Lauri Watts lauri@kde.org