Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

The file should be auto-created by 'uic' (part of Qt) during the make process, it is not part of the source package.

When I run make, the command that creates the file is:
/usr/qt/3/bin/uic -L /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/plugins/designer -nounload ./configdialog.ui | /usr/bin/perl -pi -e "s,public QWizard,public KWizard,g; s,#include ,#include ,g" >> configdialog.h.

Maybe you could try to run make -f Makefile.cvs to rerun the autotools. I had never such a problem on a Linux box, and I don't know FreeBSD enough to help you here. :-S - Mar 10 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

1) As far as I know, it is not possible at the moment, for a kwin plugin to make excessive use of COMPOSITE. Maybe with Qt 4.
2) I don't want to, I don't think, it would be very useful. And with better composite or XGl support, there would be no need. - Mar 10 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Please send me an email, and I'll explain it more detailled. - Mar 08 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Please mail me the complete output of ./configure and make then.
But I have absolutely no experience with 64 bit systems, so I am not sure, if I can help. I just know, there was someone, that compiled it on 64 bit, so it may work. - Mar 06 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Did you try the Mandriva RPM package? As far as I know they are compatible. - Mar 01 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Yep, would be a quite big job and would result in a very heavs loaded dialog.

I think about it. At the moment you can create png images, then convert them to a C-Header file, and include it in the crystal sources, recompile it, and you have your own, modified button set. It's too much trouble, yes. If anyone creates a button theme, I would like to include it in the official release, then. - Feb 28 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Sorry, my slackware guy seems to be busy at the moment, and I have no idea, how to ceate a slackware package. So, please, if anyone could provide a slackware package, I would host it. - Feb 27 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Oh yeah, that makes totally sense to me. And it is possible to implement, so I may think of this feature for the next release, but I cannot promise it. It surely would take a lot of RAM and it still would be slow the first time, it has to cache those images. - Feb 23 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Sorry, what am I supposed to do? Crystal tracks wallpaper changes, and it is good so. I see no reason, why to disable that. When the wallpaper changes, crystal has to re-grab it, and to apply the image effect on it. That takes some time and makes the deco "freeze". I cannot pre-grab the wallpapers and I won't cache them, because I even don't know the wallpaper. I get it from KDE, and it maybe not even be a 'file'. So I can do nothing about that. :-/ And I see no reason, why I should. - Feb 21 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

I compiled the deco against KDE 3.4 with newer libs and created the debian package with that. Seems that my package is not backwards compatible.

Please download the source code and compile it yourself. You need the appropriate devel packages for that. Sorry man. I can't provide packages for every distro. :( - Feb 12 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Not yet, I think of an option to define a background image, instead of the autodetected wallpaper. - Feb 07 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

It's quite simple. Just turn on transparency with tinting, disable button bar and disable scroll bar. Nothing else. See man Eterm for the parameters. - Feb 03 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

The Mandriva/Fedora/Redhat RPMs are all compatible. - Jan 31 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

It's the exquisite iconset, which can be found on kde-look - Jan 31 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`

That's the command, notice the `-Backticks. - Jan 24 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

These are terminals, like aterm, Eterm or konsole. They all can be set up to be translucent. - Jan 15 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

ok, I will think about that. But with all that features it may be time to split this project up into "pseudo-transparency", "no transparency", "composite transparency", or whatever.
Maybe I'll make it with real composite support, not the one of kwin, then it would look nicer, I'd make the title bar text non transparent. But I have no idea, if I can make it. But it is planned. - Jan 13 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

This is the "original", isn't it? I'm unable to make the buttons shine like that, because I cannot draw outside my widgets/windows. It's possible for MS, because their desktop is completely DirectX. - Jan 11 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

If you want to compile it from source, you need all the required devel packages (x11-devel, qt-devel, kde-devel). The names depend on your distro.

Which distribution are you using? If I provide a package for it, please use it, instead of compiling from source, which is much more difficult. - Jan 11 2006
Vista looking KDE - Day 1

KDE Plasma Screenshots by zammi 3 comments

You can disable the transparency in crystal, if you set fade and amount to 100%. Then, since KDE 3.5, you can use kompmgr to apply COMPOSITE to the title bar only, so you get real transparency on the whole deco. But this makes everything transparent, even the title bar text. - Jan 10 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Could you name a window, this suits to?
Currently the minimize and maximize button are hidden, if the window cannot be minimized or maximized. But almost every window can be closed, do you want to hide the close button, too? - Jan 10 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

The overlay surely takes some CPU time to calculate. What speed is your CPU, and what is your setup, the height of the title bar?
On my 1 GHz machine it runs very fast with a titlebar of about 22px, too fast to notice a slowdown. - Jan 10 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Go to the colors section of kcontrol and select a whitish color for the title bar. Go back to crystal and select "fade" as the effect with an amount of about 50%. If you want choose a "blur" of 3 or 4. That's it. - Jan 08 2006
Crystal Ubuntu package

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by jserrano 10 comments

I would like it more, to get this package by email from you, then that you create an extra submission on kde-look.org.
I will host the package on my sever and include it in the crystal main page as extra download. There is no need for a different content, that may distract users. - Jan 07 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

It uses the title bar color, that can be choosen in the colors section of kcontrol. - Jan 07 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

You can disable the transparency by selecting "fade" with an amount of 100%. Maybe I'll conquer the true transparency (COMPOSITE) some day... - Jan 07 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

I will replace the theme with a complete selfmade theme, next release. The point is, that I don't know, where the guy, that sent me the buttons, have them from. I'm working on it. :) - Jan 07 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Most of the buttons were created by me, so they only look like. I copied the design, it is not the original artwork. I don't know, can there be a copyright on the design idea? If so, I will remove them. - Jan 07 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

No need for Ubuntu packages, since the Debian package should work there, too! - Jan 07 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Did you restart kwin? If you have crystal selected before, the kwin program has the old instance in memory, and after a restart it should work. - Jan 07 2006
Crystal Ubuntu package

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by jserrano 10 comments

I already provided a Debian package. Did you try it? As far as I know, these are compatible, so you can install the Debian package in Ubuntu, and a special Ubuntu package is really not neccessary. - Jan 07 2006
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

No, it's not that easy, I can't take screenshots from windows below mine. So how am I supposed to show the real transparency, when I'm moving the window down? And you can't move a window below kxdocker either, this technique does only work for static windows. - Dec 25 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Nope, sorry. kxdocker makes a screenshot first, then draws this screenshot onto it's window and renders on it. So an animated window is not updated, if covered by kxdocker. I'd need to make a lot of screenshots to make it look good, and the performance would suffer a lot. It's not possible to get "real" transparency with this technique.

I'll use pseudo transparency, because it is very performant, and maybe I'll use the COMPOSITE extension, because it would look great with it and have a decent performance. But at the moment I am not able to implement this idea. - Dec 23 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

It's technically not possible, without COMPOSITE. It was not possible befoe, and I didn't try it with KDE 3.5. But in 3.5 you can give the titlebar a different amount of transparency than the window, so you archive the effect.
But for now it is not possible for me, to enable it in my deco. Needs a lot of research. - Dec 21 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Wow, thanks a lot. I never noticed this bug, because I never used it. ;) In 0.9.2 this should have happened, too, it will be fixed in my next release! - Dec 08 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Yeah, please try to compile it from source. It's too much for me, to crete 64bit packages for each distro, too. Maybe the Debian Team includes it in their package tree, some day. - Dec 08 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

So you have a very mixed system, the titlebarMouseWheelOperation exists in the file kdecoration.h since veryion 3.5, you seem to have an old version of this header file installed.
Comment this line out in the crystalclient.cc, and it should compile fine. You'll be unable to use the default mouse wheel operation on the titlebar, but that is not that important. :) - Dec 03 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Which version of KDE?? Which compiler?

Your post does not seem to be complete, the error message is missing.
- Dec 02 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Second time, I hear that. :( Doen't complain on my boxes (and I don't have acl installed).

Which distro? Which version of KDE? - Dec 02 2005
Crystal-GL

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 175 comments

I have no plans for the future, and I don't want to maintain it, because it caused a lot of problems, which I could not handle. Sorry. - Dec 02 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Thank you very much for this hint. The code-part does not work at all, so it is deactivated, but still compiled. I will uncomment it in further versions, so it will not cause any harm. :) - Nov 21 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

It does not slow down your desktop. If you move a window, there is a redraw neccessary. The redraw should be very fast, but if it is slow, you can disable the "immediately redraw".

When you switch the virtual desktops, the decoration is regrabbing the wallpaper, DEPENDING on the checkbox "track desktop changes", in the configuration dialog. Disable it, and there is no lag anymore.

There are no other options to speed it up. Check your settings.
How fast is your computer? - Nov 03 2005
Crystal-GL

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 175 comments

No way for Decos in KDE<3.5 to make individual use of composite. This will be a KDE 3.5 feature only (if it is even possible), and I will look into thism, when 3.5 is released.
And ATI has linux support?? Can't believe it. o_O But they should improve their 3D drivers first... - Oct 19 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Okay, then you have to build it from scratch, I only provide 32 bit packages. - Oct 17 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

The Redhat/Fedora/Mandriva rpm packages are compatible. - Oct 16 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

So just wait for KDE 3.5 - Oct 16 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

Pseudo-transparency will always be faster than true transparency, and COMPOSITE is only fast on nvidia cards, and not very stable.

KDE 3.5 will have such a checkbox, then it is deco independend, and you can disable the transparency in crystal completely. - Oct 15 2005
Crystal

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 541 comments

I totally disagree. The technique I use for the pseudo transparency, is the fastest, out there. Composite uses *real* transparency, which causes a lot of overhead.
My crystal even runs fast like hell on a 400 MHz computer, WITHOUT hardware acceleration.

COMPOSITE is incredible slow on most machines, if they don't have hardware acceleration.
What computer do you use? I don't think, it is slow. - Oct 15 2005
Crystal-GL

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by dralgebra 175 comments

Since KDE 3.5 every window decoration will be able to use COMPOSITE, I mean, every deco can be translucent, not only crystal. Check it out, no need for special code. - Oct 14 2005
rookie

Wallpaper Other by DyVe 5 comments

Are you sure, that this "Moorhuhn" is GPLed? - Oct 06 2005