Hey all,
For some time I have been working on Kickoff (the alternate panel under Kicker). I have resolved a few problems and have created a patch to fix up the problems. It closes at least bug 508 and 281
First of all, KNewButton is a terrible and bloated implementation of the KButton class, with animations that didn't work or do anything really. it does however have things that are required for the kickoff menu.
So I stripped all the crap out of KNewButton and got it to work with the same settings that the regular kbutton does. This also fixes a bug with transparency that wasn't reported.
Also I fixed the problem with the "computer" tab that was causing a endless loop.
Once the tree unfreezes I plan on working on kickoff further.
Calvin Morrison