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Ultra Series - 220 Color schemes pack (v3.2)
This is the final update for the Ultra series. This pack includes mostly non-generic schemes, fully compatible with Domino but also usable with Glow, Powder and Serenity.
Installation. Extract the content of the tarball to $home/.kde/share/apps/kdisplay/color-schemes.
Usability:
* Fonts. Besides the window decoration, the overall look depends mostly on the font combination you use, thus load some programs and try them out first. Alt+F2 -> colors. Select scheme, press Alt+A to try them.
* Backgrounds. Non-white background schemes. Each scheme displays a 3-column icon. The middle column represents the background color. Some applications, most noticeable Konqueror and OpenOffice, use this color for documents and webpages. If this is not the desired effect, this is how to fix it:
OpenOffice -> Options -> Appearance -> Document background.
Konqueror-> Configure -> CSS -> Use accessibility style-sheet -> Black on white.
* Button colors. These schemes are meant to be used primarily with a dark button/light text combination, Glow inherits this color by default, the same effect can be achieved by customizing Domino. As always, it all depends on what you like.
* Konqueror troubleshooting. Konqueror doesn't always display colors the way it should. An easy way to avoid complications is to use a background image instead of a color. I was careful with the integration between background colors and alternative background colors, (this is noticeable when you use programs with list-view modes: Amarok, Gwenview, Dolphin, Kget, etc.) nevertheless this is a limitation imposed by Konqueror and probably the main reason why some users tend to avoid darker schemes.
* Gamma correction. I use my monitor with a default 6500K/2.0 gamma setting, some non-calibrated monitors might require a slight adjustment in order to display properly the darker schemes.
KControl -> Peripherals -> Monitor & Display -> Color & Gamma.
Screenshots. Instead of cluttering the screen with all types of windows like I did in the past, I selected 2 of my favorites. I chose these ones in particular because for the average user they may look completely unusable at first, nevertheless, they are there for a reason. Which ones suit your style, it's up to you to decide.
Update (2008.07.10): Nitrofurano kindly ported the pack to Gnome and Fluxbox!:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=84941
http://www.box-look.org/content/show.php?content=84947
Edit (06.2009): It's been over 8 months since my last visit here, is good to see this pack still on top, thanks everybody for their support, I really appreciate it.
12 years ago
2008.03.28. Final update, 63 schemes were retouched. I updated the screenshots.
2008.01.30. I added to the pack 135 color schemes, rewrote and expanded the description.
2008.01.24. 82 color schemes added, total of 85 plus the original scheme. Created pack, rewrote and expanded description, added new screenshots.
2008.01.09. I added the Dusk and Dawn schemes, updated the Dark Ocean scheme so more decorations can use it, modified the description and changed the screenshots #2 and #3.
2008.01.06. I re uploaded the schemes, updated the description, the screenshots and removed the old changelog, which was becoming unnecessarily messy.
12 years ago
2008.03.28. Final update, 63 schemes were retouched. I updated the screenshots.
2008.01.30. I added to the pack 135 color schemes, rewrote and expanded the description.
2008.01.24. 82 color schemes added, total of 85 plus the original scheme. Created pack, rewrote and expanded description, added new screenshots.
2008.01.09. I added the Dusk and Dawn schemes, updated the Dark Ocean scheme so more decorations can use it, modified the description and changed the screenshots #2 and #3.
2008.01.06. I re uploaded the schemes, updated the description, the screenshots and removed the old changelog, which was becoming unnecessarily messy.
nitrofurano
12 years ago
the converter still needs some fixes
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wusc1
12 years ago
i will try one by one to look for one i like
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skinwalker
12 years ago
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dax918
12 years ago
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Domino?content=42804
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DonCelulari
12 years ago
one question... what is the name of the icons on the screenshot????? i need them :)
thanks!!!
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dax918
12 years ago
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
for i in `seq 0 1000000`; do wget -c http://www.colourlovers.com/export/zip/$i; mv $i $i.zip; done;
up to now i think there are around 500000 downloadable palettes, all cc-nc-sa! :-)
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dax918
12 years ago
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
a script for downloading directly the colour hex values seems to be not that hard at all
from the url http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/474922/Train_Yard
we can get hex colours from a script like:
wget http://www.colourlovers.com/export/html/474922
cat 474922 | grep Hex > 474922.txt
rm 474922
the problem is the result is plenty of tabs, maybe i'll need to use a kind of text replace (or some more unix sub-commands like grep/awk/cut for cleaning it a bit better)
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
another example would be a kind of script would load with wget some palettes from there, and get them as choices for a gui colourscheme...
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dax918
12 years ago
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dax918
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dax918
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
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dax918
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
About download managers, they were fine for downloading between 100 and 1000 files at once, but 500000? and btw, a console application used to be more fast and stable than a gui-based application, specially on ms-windows...
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dax918
12 years ago
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dax918
12 years ago
http://www.menuetos.org/. I tried it last year and submitted a report of my processor. It may not look much at first but it's certainly promising, it is always nice to see this kind of programs, it reminds me of the way Linux started. Second, fasm, probably the best compiler right now, http://flatassembler.net/examples.php, Third, masm, it comes with a bunch of mini-programs but just for windows. They have a fixed position against the GPL/HLL that put me off, they don't let you release your code with that license. So Fasm is the way to go, however it's too complicated for me, I can't get the language.
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
I had no idea some people still code on assembler for the more recent operative systems - where from can i see these kind of programs?
Some large applications could be also scripts binded after runtime executables, like this executable have 1mb in size, and the script is embedded after (just like with 'cat script.languagesuffix >> runtime.exe', or like swf Flash projectors... )
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dax918
12 years ago
for (int i=0; i<500000; i++)
{
// new string url + append i
// copy string to clipboard
// wait 2 seconds
// getright adds it to the queue list
// if (i mod 500==0) then wait 60 seconds and resume loop
// by then there's enough room to keep adding more
}
This way only a limited portion of RAM gets used. This same procedure applies to any other download manager capable of clipboard monitoring such as KGet.
I used to have a spare old hard drive, which is now pretty much pointless because is only 3GB, not enough for modern needs. :(
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=85068
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dax918
12 years ago
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
a real complete enough version may take some while to get done (assuming nothing never got really complete...), since the .xpm template needs constantly lots of small fixes... :-(
(i think i can remove/rename/change the post if you want?)
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dax918
12 years ago
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nitrofurano
12 years ago
And thanks linking from here, to these conversions! :-)
Now let's see how soon the xmms/audacious skins i can get ready as well! ;-) - when ready, i'll tell!
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