Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

No, with engine I mean the Qt-GTK bridge, not GTK itself. Which engine do you use? I only knew of http://code.google.com/p/gtk-qt-engine/ - Jul 15 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

So it still looks horrible, haven't tried the engine since a year :)

Regarding the menu, it looks like it is scaled from a smaller size (there is antialiasing), probably from a cache to speed things up. If you know of a KDE style with a menu stripe that does not show this bug, I would be interested to hear about it. Otherwise I would say it is a GTK engine bug. - Jul 15 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

Could you retry with updated version 0.4.0.3? There was a bug that prevented deKorator to work correctly with KDE 4.3. - Jul 15 2009
Aurorae Theme Engine

Various Plasma Theming by mgraesslin 179 comments

This problem is Gentoo specific. Please report it to the Gentoo people.

I had a report about the same error when using FindKDE4Workspace.cmake in the Skulpture CMakeLists.txt - Jun 28 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

Make sure midLeftFrameBg.png and midRightFrameBg.png are empty, their width determines the left and right border widths. The masks should not have any effect on the window layout.

Actually this is a fork, as I do not know what the original deKorator author has planned :) - Jun 28 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Hi Kanwar, there is a line "k *= 0.1" in source, change the number (0.1 ... 0.9) to increase roundness, but only works for buttons right now. - May 28 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

You are right that this is confusing. I just did not want to give the impression that 0.4 is better than 0.3. In fact, due to some regressions, it may be worse :)

For the next release, I will fix the version number issues. Thanks for noticing the hidden .svn directory.

Regarding packages, I already provide them for all major distributions (yes, including Mandriva :) - May 25 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Thanks :) If you find bugs, please give feedback. There will be a final 0.2.3 version, probably after Qt 4.5.2 release. - May 24 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Hi tail, how is your theme going?

You are right, I unified the look of the combo boxes for Skulpture 0.2, there was a "button like" read-only combo box in version 0.1.

The code has not been deleted, I plan to add an option for version 0.3, where the user can chose his preferred style, so you could keep yours, too.

For those who want the "button like" combo boxes back now: You can change that in the source code, search for "buttonMode = false", and replace that with "buttonMode = !option->editable" (both occurrences). - May 24 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Another user just confirmed that the bug is in the intel driver. Changing the AccelMethod from EXA to either XAA or UXA helped. - May 01 2009
Skulpture

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 36 comments

Hi Matthias, Skulpture is not a theming engine with replaceable graphics, so it is not possible to "edit" the theme, unless you change the source code. You might want to look at QuantumStyle, if you want something editable. - May 01 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Thank you for the bug report, Dmitriy. This problem will be fixed in the next version. If you are willing to install from source, please try snapshot version 0.2.2.8 from the Skulpture homepage. - Apr 30 2009
Skulpture

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 36 comments

They are both version 0.2.2, the number after the hyphen is just incremented on each .spec file change. Please install the version from the Fedora repositories. - Apr 29 2009
Skulpture

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 36 comments

Hi, did you install from source or did you use the packages from my repository at the opensuse site?

I am not sure if my packages work with the updated KDE, because the build service assumes original distribution packages.

If you installed from source code, please use pastebin.com to show me the install_log.txt, maybe you are just missing the kdebase-workspace-devel files.

Also if I understand google correctly, the Skulpture packages are supposed to be in the official Fedora 9, 10, and 11 repositories, so you might try installing it from there. Maybe you need to uninstall old files. See https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/kde-style-skulpture - Apr 29 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

Sure, that is actually the primary motivation for ARGB decorations. - Apr 28 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

Thanks for all your suggestions, please keep them coming, I am watching you :)

Some notes:
* Alpha transparency is KDE 4.3 material, and currently there are issues with ARGB decorations and shadows that need to be solved in trunk. I hope to have ARGB support in deKorator when KDE has.
* deKorator definitely needs different layouts for maximized, restored, or shaded windows. I am looking for a way to change the layout without the need to provide hundreds of images.
* There seems to be consensus that themes should have a description file, with Author/Version/URL info, and also additional info about what parts should be scaled instead of tiled etc. I am currently looking what format this file could have, maybe a .desktop file (like Plasma or Windows themes), or something similar to a .css file (i.e. structured data). Cookon has .xml files, but I find these hard to edit manually. - Apr 23 2009
Skulpture

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 36 comments

Comment out the first drawText call (line 421 in kwin-client/kwin_skulpture.cpp) by adding // at the front. - Apr 21 2009
Bespin

Be-Shell/Bespin by thomas12777 1662 comments

Thomas, is there anything that needs to be changed in the new KonqAnimatedLogo class? - Apr 21 2009
Reluna DeKorator

deKorator Themes by Shirakawasuna 10 comments

Could you describe the limitations in deKorator that you ran into? I am looking what I can improve there. Thanks. - Apr 17 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Hi maarizwan, thanks for your requests. Some comments:

1. Are you talking about customizing the background gradient (light effect), or the frame?

2. This seems to be a common request nowadays, it will be addressed in version 0.3. You could use more contrast between Window and Button colors in the meantime.

3. Tab sizes can be configured (you need version 0.2.1), but the spacing is fixed for now, as I did not want to rewrite the tab code for 0.2. I cannot promise if it will change in 0.3, as the spacing is not a big problem.

4. Yes, that is something that was planned to go into 0.2, but did not make it. You could try a different font, as the size depends on it.

5. No! You will get used to the dots. And once you do, you will never want the boxes :)

As for showing the tree elements on hover, I am not sure if it is possible, I will have to investigate when I work on the vivid part of Skulpture (0.5? I do not know...)

If you find more, let us know. - Mar 28 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

Hi, regarding tile sizes, it is the best to make them as small as possible. If performance is better with larger sizes, deKorator can pre-tile the images to its pixmap caches, but it cannot do the reverse.
Looking forward to your theme :) - Mar 24 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

There is the QStyle::SH_UnderlineShortcut style hint, which Skulpture makes configurable. - Mar 24 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Hi karye, thanks for your feedback.

1) The shadow ("3D effect") is part of every column list view, not part of the window, so when you scroll a column out of the window, the shadow scrolls with it. An early Skulpture version also had the shadow for the whole window, but that looked horrible because of the double shadow. The only fix would be if Dolphin uses a single view for all columns, and does the scrolling inside the view.

2) The underline is the focus indicator. Skulpture 0.2.2 does not show it in item views unless you use the keyboard.

3) As for the scroll bar thumb to look similar to buttons: that was the intention of the designer ;) Please make suggestions for changes. - Mar 22 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

Yes, it was the intention of the original author. All sample themes he provides follow that pattern. - Mar 22 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

If theme detection does not work with a theme, you can install it manually:

1. Unpack theme to a permanent location (standard is .kde/share/apps/deKorator/themes/)
2. Go to "Paths" page in deKorator configuration
3. Pick "deco", "buttons", and "masks" directories from unpacked theme
4. Hit Apply

I will improve theme installation in a future version. - Mar 12 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

This will be possible with 0.3.x version, but I have no timeframe yet.

Regarding color schemes, Skulpture is designed to be used with a non-white View color so that highlighting works. But I am glad you like it with your setup :) - Mar 07 2009
Crystal

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by dralgebra 152 comments

You need to install KDE headers. Install package "kdebase4-workspace-devel". - Feb 28 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Hi Johnny, how is life on the KDE side? If Skulpture had a GTK+ port, I am sure you would switch back to GNOME. Not that we want this ;) Thanks for your comment, if you find anything, let me know. - Feb 25 2009
Atelier

Plasma Themes by jamboarder 20 comments

One possible reason is that you have used "Theme Details" in KDE 4.2 systemsettings, and selected a different theme to use for the color scheme. Both Aya and Atelier use the system color scheme, most (all?) others use fixed text colors, usually white. - Feb 23 2009
Atelier

Plasma Themes by jamboarder 20 comments

Thank you so much for creating this! Even the systray expanding arrow matches the widget arrow style perfectly. Amazing work! And you made sure I did not find it before today ;) - Feb 19 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Hi david, I did not invest time in focus glow or shadows in the window decoration yet, because the 4.2 API for that is marked as "unstable, WILL change for 4.3" (or something like that). But if time permits, I will have a look again when the new API (supposedly allowing smooth roundness and transparent decorations) is available.

If your only concern is the large space Oxygen windeco needs, you might have a look at http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Nitrogen?content=99551 - Feb 19 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

The bug is in the GTK-Qt engine, not in Skulpture. See http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?action=knowledgebase&content=59031&kbid=9 - Feb 19 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Skulpture is the international project name, Sculpture is the english name of the style.

Regarding the divide by zero error in the gtk engine: use the version from svn. The bug has long been fixed, but a new version was not released. - Feb 18 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Hi tail, software is a evolving process, but I am quite satisfied with the current look, except for the progress bar. Luckily, this widget is not visible often :)

As for the demo application, I just use Qt Designer to try different widgets. - Feb 08 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Find the "bool progressBarContentsCentered" function in src/skulpture.cpp, and in the last line of this function, replace "return true;" with "return false;" (line 6610 for version 0.2.2). - Feb 06 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Qt 4.5 has moved icon theme detection from QPlastiqueStyle to QCommonStyle, so with that Qt version the icons should be correct again. I did not dare to copy the whole code just to make it work with Qt 4.4.

Regarding the rendering error: If you use the intel driver, remember that intel has several problems when used as the secondary X session. Also, maybe you are using Compiz? If you can reproduce with vesa driver using KWin, please paste a screenshot. But I doubt it is a Skulpture problem, because the close button is not special, except it is red :) - Jan 29 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Please try with KDE 4.2 (rev 898774 or later), I fixed a crash related with KDE Designer plugins. If you can still reproduce, I need a backtrace with debugging enabled. - Jan 26 2009
Azenis

KDE 3.5 Themes by Ezy 192 comments

Moving the title is no problem (I already added this to Skulpture 0.2.2), but for real transparency we will have to wait for KDE 4.3.

However, a mask for all pixmaps (like the masks for the round corners) should be possible, but would require an updated deKorator theme format, so you should switch to KDE4 soon :)

I will keep you informed, thanks for your feedback. - Jan 21 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Blended+for+deKorator?content=31771

Looks like a deKorator 0.1 theme, so you need the porting script to convert it, the script is in the deKorator source archive. - Jan 19 2009
Azenis

KDE 3.5 Themes by Ezy 192 comments

> had to alter it a bit because of the limits in Dekorator

I am currently looking what I can improve in deKorator (for KDE 4). Could you describe what limitations you ran into? - Jan 18 2009
Bespin

Be-Shell/Bespin by thomas12777 1662 comments

KDE 4 has version 5 .so files.
On Kubuntu: kdelibs5-dev
for the decoration: kdebase-workspace-dev - Jan 12 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Neither KDE 4.2 nor Qt 4.5 are out yet, but beta versions are available. While Skulpture 0.3 has already been branched, I plan to release a 0.2.3 version to make it work perfectly on the new KDE and Qt versions.

If you find something that could be improved, even if you think that it is a small issue, please add a comment. Either here, or use my blog http://kdepepo.wordpress.com/. There is also a Skulpture thread at forum.kde.org, if you need to paste pictures to show problems.

For those who want rounded buttons, I maybe should remind you that you can have them since Skulpture 0.0.3 :) Just find the line that says "k *= 0.1;" in src/skulpture.cpp and replace the number with a higher value (0.2 ... 0.9). - Jan 11 2009
Domino

Various Plasma Theming by skulptor 10 comments

Yep, you also have to select the next check box "Show button icons", then also inactive buttons are visible.

I am not sure if this is a bug in the original version, or if I broke it during porting. Actually I never used Domino :)

Thanks for reporting. - Jan 09 2009
deKorator

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by skulptor 133 comments

Hi Jos, you should know that I did not write deKorator, only ported it to KDE 4, but I agree that theme selection and colorization options are not really intuitive. Maybe ask in a forum, it should work the same as the KDE 3 version. - Jan 06 2009
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Planned, yes. In the meantime, you can just copy/share your ~/.config/SkulptureStyle.ini file :) Not exactly elegant, but with the current limited amount of options, I did not see the need to make an import/export feature.

Merry Christmas! - Dec 23 2008
Domino

Various Plasma Theming by skulptor 10 comments

Rob, I certainly considered porting it, otherwise I would not have downloaded the source. But looking at my other plans, I don't see it happening. In other words, if my other plans fail, I might reconsider it.

If you are new to KDE programming, just download the source from this page, enable the domino and dominoConfig subdirs in CMakeLists.txt, and start hacking. The error messages should guide you ;)

Merry Christmas! - Dec 23 2008
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Please speak up soon if there are remaining issues, because due to a wired bug with arrow configuration, I will have to release a 0.2.2 version before I go back to coding the 0.3 series, but 0.3 is some months ahead. Thanks! - Dec 20 2008
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Oh goona, it is you again. This time no more suggestions for me? Sounds good :) Thanks. - Dec 18 2008
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Yep, this is really excellent Artwork, but it shares two problems with most other Plasma themes: it is black, and it has rounded corners. - Dec 18 2008
Skulpture

Application Styles by skulptor 371 comments

Thanks again, jamboarder. A coder cannot get enough feedback ;)

What happened to your intention to create a matching plasma theme? Now that we have a nice widget style and a simple window decoration I may start using KDE 4 fully, and I feel the need for a good plasma theme. If I only had your expertise on that topic :( - Dec 17 2008