Box-shadow in qss?

liuyanghejerry

CSS3 Box-shadow has been in candidate of CSS3 spec for a while. However, I don't see any clue about using box-shadow in Qt style sheet (NOT QtWebkit!).

Is that will be support? Or, is style sheet died already?

weblife

The style sheet model is based on CSS2 and all of its selector definitions and a little bit of CSS3 Pseudo-Elements. Keep in mind they don't always cascade they way you want into sub elements of a widget.

I believe this was created before Nokia took over Qt and it may have very little support for more CSS3 due to QML features now.

messi

@weblife I think style sheet should be supported in the future because not everyone is jumping on the QML Train. In my last project style sheet was very important for the look & feel.
So only the future will tell us if style sheet will die.

weblife

@messi I don't disagree I'm on the gravy boat too and prefer .qss files. I say that because of the lack of progress over a long period of time and the repeated responses of others pushing QML to do these style edits.

messi

@weblife Totally clear. But I wondering how the KDE guys will continue the work on the Desktop. Will they all switch to QML and realize all the features with it? I doubt that. QML is a nice thing and it will drive the development further but to gain and to keep the number of developers they have to continue and to support the native C++ way as well. That's what M$ also is doing with there new architecture of Win8. You can develop your applications in almost every way.

liuyanghejerry

What a pity. I'm interested in it because it's not that easy to implement box-shadow in other ways. The most closed way may be draw a blurred image under my widget.

And if I look into the source code of QWidget, is there any possibility that submit a fix around this?