
Unified Plastik Desktop
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
BIG FAT WARNING: THIS DOCUMENTATION PROJECT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED. I HAVE REMOVED THE DOWNLOAD LINKS AND SCREENSHOTS.
This aims to be a short article explaining the current situation of several tools that allow users to have a unified Plastik desktop look in KDE.
Notes:
* OpenOffice.org in first screenshot not reflecting current integration stage, see the second one.
* I have uploaded the source XML document in case somebody wants to make a translation of it. Raúl Moratalla did the original translation to Spanish. I may try to port the Spanish translation too. In any case, send me the translated text and I'll host it :).
Yaba
15 years ago
IMHO the class PlasticXPLookAndFeel is best.
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rg3
15 years ago
Thanks in advance.
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dml
16 years ago
In your screenshots fonts in menus look very crisp and sharp, without anti aliasing and just the same like in win XP.
For a moment I thought that was the windows version of open office in second screenshot.
What version of freetype lib you have, and on what distro?
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rg3
16 years ago
I followed a Slackware guide (I'm currently using "Slackware Current") for Slackware 9.0, but I can be extrapolated to other distributions, AFAIK.
http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/antialiasing_slack.php
Most steps are very simple to comprehend. The only rough part is recompiling freetype (now I'm using freetype 2.1.9, BTW) to activate the bytecode interpreter.
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kwr2k
16 years ago
Thanks.
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Svyatogor
16 years ago
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djworld
16 years ago
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13050
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rg3
16 years ago
http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/
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6thpink
15 years ago
Still, most times I use mplayer in console (no gtk version, I find the gtk thingy so much outdated and very buggy... and I save some compilation time if I dont build the gtk interface).
Also agree that plastic is a very good engine, the only wrong thing about it: it is very heavy in cpu time (im a bit maniatic about that). Most other styles are much lighter (you can easily appreciate that in the amount of time that the k menus take to display the submenus. I usually preffer a thing like reinhardt, compared to plastik it is lightning fast. Of course, in any way plastik is fantastic, when it comes to the look.
- Regards, people ;)
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rg3
16 years ago
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/kmplayer.html
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adrenalize
16 years ago
What I still miss is a plastik theme for Thunderbird , which I'm using for mail.
Is there a theme somewhere on the web? I didn't find one yet...
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rg3
16 years ago
I'm just a normal user that does what everybody does: Google, google and google some more. I'm in the same situation like you, that is, I don't know any Plastik theme for Thunderbird. However, in this site (www.kde-look.org) we have several projects to make Mozilla apps have a plastik look. As you know, there are Plastik themes for the Mozilla suite (and that *includes* Mozilla Mail), as well as Firefox. Fortunatelly, the authors of these themes are all the same and their official website is at
http://www.polinux.upv.es/mozilla/
The site is under the domain of the "Universidad Politécnica de Valencia", and they're now probably bussy with the final exams of June (just like me ;)). But after they study, and specially if they pass their exams, they will be pleased to read your begs for a Thunderbird theme.
Stay tuned!
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nuka
16 years ago
i too would like a thunderbird theme.
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adrenalize
16 years ago
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oshogg
16 years ago
I followed the instructions in this guide and now everything is Plastik .. excellent! Except, gtk 1.2 applications.
For example, gnomecal do not use Plastik but gtk-gnutella does. Any idea how to fix this?
thanks.
Osho
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rg3
16 years ago
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rg3
16 years ago
My temporal advice is to use the Industrial GTK1 engine, which seems to fit quite well with Plastik (it can't be worse than the default engine anyway). To use Industrial with GtkQt, edit /usr/share/themes/GtkQt/gtk/qtstyle2gtkstylerc and associate Plastik with Industrial (if that's the correct name) above any other Plastik association. I'm trying to install that engine myself.
Good luck!
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finrold
16 years ago
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rg3
16 years ago
I, however, followed a more rough, hackish guide (for Slackware 9.0):
http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/antialiasing_slack.php
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finrold
16 years ago
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rg3
16 years ago
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finrold
16 years ago
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linuxmad
16 years ago
help...
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finrold
16 years ago
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finrold
16 years ago
I'm using Fedora Core 2 and I had the same problem on Fedora Core 1.
Anyone could help me?
Thanks
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