Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

see other post - Sep 21 2004
Baghira SuSE 9.x RPM

KDE 3.5 Themes by Massive 154 comments

add /usr/li64 to your ld path
(somewhere in /etc, but please don't ask me about suse specific names) and then run ldconfig - Sep 17 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

with kde3.3 the menubar applet for kicker supports kindof "translucent" menus, i.e. the menu background falls back to the kicker background.
unfortunately (afaik) this relies on the menu to have the button color (kstyle resets it after i set it to background for m$ like menus)
i could force that down, but as result, the menuapplet wouln't work as it does
so simple solution:
add a kicker panel at the top of your screen and add the kde or the baghira (only change: app name with windowlist in front of the menu) menuapplet to it (if you use "translucent" kicker panels or a background pix, the menu will exactly look like this) - Sep 14 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i think i changed something rather little (don't think it has an efect on the buttons) that i didn't test ...
Maybe this cuases the config dialog to not update settings (if i'll have to upload an update soon :(
Until then, either install the config dialog from 0.5f (there's nothing wrong with it) or edit the ~/qt/qtrc file directly - sorry for inconvenience - Sep 13 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

currently there's no todo list (major problem is currently the use on architectures different from x86, esp. ppc) - Sep 13 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

try to
make -f Makefile.cvs
then obligatory ./configure; make; make install - Sep 13 2004
Nicer xorg 6.8 shadow

Various Stuff by manor 17 comments

btw. i cannot mail you - seems your addy is invalid (web.de refuses and gmx sends me a failure notice)
but you may mail me a shadow screenshot (or upload it) - Sep 13 2004
Nicer xorg 6.8 shadow

Various Stuff by manor 17 comments

http://baghira.sourceforge.net/xcompmgr2.1.tar.bz2
different look, shadows do not turn to "top" when closing a window
included diaglogs, tool and util windows
superkaramba does not pulse at my side, but that may depend on the version and the theme - Sep 13 2004
Nicer xorg 6.8 shadow

Various Stuff by manor 17 comments

i'll try to exclude such windows for another release (can't poromise, as i don't know what superkaramber is using)
docks should be excluded anyway - Sep 12 2004
Nicer xorg 6.8 shadow

Various Stuff by manor 17 comments

imho apple has shadows on the top as well (due to the ambience light, real objetcs throw a light overall shadow (on all sides) and a dark one in the preferred direction)
when i'm no more tired, i'll try to update the gaussian map - Sep 12 2004
Nicer xorg 6.8 shadow

Various Stuff by manor 17 comments

...this?
http://baghira.sourceforge.net/xcompmgr2.tar.bz2

(didn't view your version yet, so only common shadows)
the changes only appear on restacks (i.e. you change the focus) and should exclude anything but normal windows (docks etc.)
due to the wider shadow, resizing windows tends to create more artefacts...

happy testing ;) - Sep 12 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

personally i use a mac style menu bar (but that's a very discussionable thing :), so the menu is just at top of the screen - Sep 11 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i do _not_ run iTunes on linux... ;)
i just faked the caption (--caption iTunes), so you got trapped by baghira and juk ;)
iTunes needs crossover office, and if some guys would figure out that any kind of drm is just a bad joke (save, because the algorithm is hidden... yeah :) we could probably implement daap (ok, we can - just makes no sense :) and an itms decoder... - Sep 11 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

dunno, but you can easily install them by yourself:

whereever you installed your icons (probably $KDEPREFIX/share/icons/default.kde, check "echo `kde-config --prefix`" to figure out $KDEPREFIX (debian is probably /usr) ), copy from this dir
cp ./22x22/apps/baghira_blue.png ./22x22/action(s?-im on a window$ terminal)/bab_aqua.png
cp ./22x22/apps/baghira.png ./22x22/action(s?)/bab_brushed.png
restart bab (tro become sure look at the oldstyle subfolder in the baghira icon folder)
update release: this weekend?!
(and sorry for the 2 missing icons) - Sep 10 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

yes - just a fake (i wanted to have a nice macalike about dilaog and clicked one together in a lazy hour (ok, didn't las an hour...:))
i could update this to really work (i.e. presenting correct system infos instead of static strings) - but that's on low priority (kde has valid sysinfo modules...) - Sep 08 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i think i mentioned in the release notes (...) that this is due to an crash that (sometimes) occur if i replace the palette on konqueror toolbuttons.
(dunno why, qt messes up when decoding a string when reloading the icons)
as long as i don't find a better workaround or the bug's fixed, i have to exclude ktoolbarbuttons from beeing updated (so better use unhovered toolbuttons)
sorry (qt3 just isn't made for dynamic background updates) - Sep 07 2004
Theme Idea from GNOME Community

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zammi 21 comments

full ack (6.8 is great :)
i just wanted to point out:
1. this is not related to the style but to the windowmanager (if)
2. not on the current (classic, 6.7) xservers
i wonder if anyone is allready writing patches for kwin, or if this should rathjer be excluded (like xcompmanager) to allow developers to implement unique implementations of the composite engine (somehow like the decos are) - while some parameters could create allmost any shade of user interactive translucency effects (i also wonder if anyone feels capable to write something operating on the texture/shader parts of the gpu) - Sep 07 2004
Usability Test: optimized desktop space

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by trollo321 16 comments

about icon for max.d windows:
you don't need kde on this...
look at the "shaped" screen edges...
they work exactly like this.
i simply place a properly shaped black square in every corner and call them to please keep on top.
you can attach this to a deco as well (i.e. display a nice button when the window gets max.d and remove it as soon as the window becomes unmax.d (by clicking the button) should be about 5 mins to code :) - Sep 07 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

...or just make a copy of the two cr22-app* icons and name them
cr22-action-bab_aqua.png
and
cr22-action-bab_brushed.png

sorry was a rush update to the icons
:[ - Sep 07 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i changed the icons for 0.5f maybe this cause an error when creating the deb installer, please ask the debian maintainer (check sf.net page - i won't post foreign emails here, thanks to the spam legions :( - Sep 07 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

enter the config dialog, special widget section
set a more confident color for kicker - Sep 06 2004
Usability Test: optimized desktop space

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by trollo321 16 comments

about max.d
depends on the app.
i use fullsize windows for coding but rather seldom for the mail app and surfing (imho this relies on the screen resolution you use)

about undecorated max.d
though increasing the available space, i think most users would (including me) really miss the close/min/(max) buttons and a full spectrum title (while removing the bottom/left/right frames is very usefull and <commercial break> possible in baghira </commercial break>) - Sep 06 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

start "kcmshell fonts" (or open the kcontrol dialog) and adjust your settings.
However, if your fonts are tiny in general maybe there's either a wrong dpi entry in your xf86config or no entry and x fails to compute it out of your screen settings (probably because you entered wrong or no values for sync/refresh/size and your monitor doesn't support ddc) - Sep 06 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

inactive toolbuttons appear if you:
1. the the apprpriate option
2. if they appear on specific widgets (mainly toolbars)
reason for two: k3b (and similar stuff)
i'll have to find a better way to separate between custom widgets and the ones using individual bg images
(please don't tell me about plastik and keramik: they don't use a pixmap as brush (but plain color) and therefore can rely on the existence of a bg pixmap...) - Sep 06 2004
Theme Idea from GNOME Community

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zammi 21 comments

This (translucency) is not possible on XFree < RC6.8 (no way)
On X6.8 this feature cannot really be provided by the style, but must be supported by the windowmanager (kwin, the decos don't have enough acces to the window structure to do so)
I you (or anyone) writes a patch for kwin though, this will hold for all applications (whether qt or not) and on all styles.
Basically one will have to write ones own implementation of the composite manager (and it's probably a good idea to let this operate on kwin)
Dunno, if patches for kwin are allready in development (as x6.8 isn't final yet and afaik nvidia and ati (are there other gpus around ;) haven't released conforming xservers yet) - Sep 06 2004
Usability Test: optimized desktop space

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by trollo321 16 comments

don't get me wrong, but the major advance of the mac style menu is that you can reach the menu eintry without having to care about the y() position of your mouse - that's lost in your configuration.

personally, i feel the taskbuttons are pretty useless, as you can very fast switch between apps by making use of the alt+tab keys (especially if taskbuttons are grouped i don't get any advance out of them)

what i really use more (most) is the kicker executor as it allows me to pass shell commands to execute apps (and typing on autocompletition is imho much faster than using the startmenu) - Sep 06 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

not really.
i can "shape" the edges of the screen, because i prcisely know where they are (at the edges of... ;) but i cannot shape a somewhere displayed kicker in general (without modifying the kicker code of course) - Sep 05 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

that one was easy to fix - i forgot to close the apps input after starting it from bab - remains the occasional crashes (somewhat more tricky) - Sep 05 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

should not really crash, but it seems it can end up in a dead lock.
i think this is related to a small change i applied to the b/m center function (so it works on any shown widget - not waiting for a resize event) in combination with the "please don't show a white statusbar" hack.
i'm currently trying out this - if i (think i can) guarantee it's because of this, i'll post a patched version soon.
until then, better avoid b/m at least on konqueror
-- sorry - Sep 04 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

as stated before, i'm not gonna touch this section of the code before stripping it all for the nG X server together with the rest of the fake translucency stuff. - Aug 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

not tested the scroll effect since ages. - i'll check that.
however, please use the bug tracker at sf.net for reporting bugs in the future.
thanks - Aug 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

known, fixed, came with the general rewrote of the event filter.
so fixed in the next release
(stupid bug at all...) - Aug 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

if you're talking about toplevel menus (_not_ popups) in kde3.3 appearing button colored: that's a bug - not a feature.
kde resets their background mode to use them "transparent" on kicker (start the menu applet and have a kicker child at the top of the screen)

i could fight that kde behaviour, but than the translucency wouldn't work anymore :(

btw: the patched baghira version of the kicker menu applet provides you thee name of the current active window left to the menu - Aug 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

there should be a readme in the file you downloaded from sf.net - basically copy them to ~/.kde/share/icons/hicolor/wwxhh/action - Aug 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

The menu applet tries to get the font from the menu and just simply bolds it.
Personally i use bitstream vera sans serif for the system stuff - Aug 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

As stated in the readme (rtfm) i excluded the goodies as they made the whole stuff too much fat - but you can download them from the
--- commercial break ---
brand new extraordinary outstanding whiter than white baghira homepage at http://baghira.sf.net in the spin off section
--- commercial break --- - Aug 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

look at the comment above (insert "#include " into baghira.h)

anyway, i'll release 0.5d tomorrow - Aug 29 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

the cotrol center module is obsolete (outdated) since 0.4 press the settings button in the kde style module instead - Aug 27 2004
msstyle loader prototype

KDE 3.5 Themes by equinoxe 29 comments

Do you make use of wine (i.e. will i work on arches defferent from x86)?
I thought msstyles were dos executables (at least file detects them as this, though the beginning is pretty much plain text) - Aug 26 2004
msstyle loader prototype

KDE 3.5 Themes by equinoxe 29 comments

Dou you make use of wine (i.e. will i work on arches defferent from x86)?
I thought msstyles were dos executables (at least file detects them as this, though the beginning is pretty much plain text) - Aug 26 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

currently i'm not gonny touch the menu code anymore (due to the soon appereance of server side *real* translucency) - i've probably killed the last small bug for the next release
as soon as i stripped the fake shadow stuff out of baghira, you can have anything you want as popupmenu background ;) - Aug 26 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

neither liquid nor baghira uses realtime alphablending.
the (round) widgets are only preblended, then stored as tiles and reused - avoiding alphablending and scaling (what would mean (slow) image/pixmap conversion)

where exactly do you see horrible artefacts (talking about round buttons on translucent kicker - i know, therefore you can set them rectangular) - Aug 24 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

ad1:
the shadow is optional, i decided to not shadow the highlighted stuff as i thought it makes highlighted texts harder too read - maybe this does not hold for your color configuration.
i'll take a closer look at this.

ad2:
don't have any problems about this.
active desktop is white, inactive one black bounded - depending of text/highlighted text color (kicker pager paints itself, btw - don't think i have much influence on this)

3. In Konqueror, the address entry box looks beautiful!! I really like the rounded corners on left and right. I would like to see such entry boxes everywhere. Is that possible?
ad4: would - sure, but i'd like to keep combos as combos (with exception for toolbars, btw - this is no option for lineedit, as qt would overpaint them after i draw the frame)
maybe an option - Aug 24 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

ad1:
i removed that feature (temporary) until i manage to apply it at proper height and/or only for single select items (seems as if all items are set to single select at polish time)

ad2:
the menubar should _not_ be blue
if you're using tolplevel menus, it should be stippled, otherwise align to the style
however, with kde3.3 kde replaces the background of toplevel menus agin to align them to kicker when using the kicker menu applet (try to use this)
baghira 0.5b however will still partially show stipples (because of the pre3.3 workaround)
i'll release a 3.3 aligned version soon - Aug 24 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

no, there aren't special "baghira" themes for gtk2 (gnome/mozilla), but several osX like themes that will do a pretty good job on this. try gnome-look.org - Aug 24 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

ad1:
weird thing. the origin is set to be aligned to the window (not the widget)
i'll try to workaround that - but cannot promise anything yet

ad2:
the appereance of the tabs is controllable.
currently the options are only available via bab though.
setting it to "clever" - the default setting - will make baghira to choose the "choosers" (apples button like tabs) for dialogs, tabs otherwise
the other options force either tabs or choosers (this is mentioned in the helpfile, btw... ;)

ad3:
menus that are not toplevel (mac like) should appear in the chosen design (i.e. b/m, if the app is b/m)
as the kicker menu applet (3.2.x) displayed the menues as they were (gradient from left to right, breaking the kicker look)
i found there was no usefull way to get toplevel menus brushed metaled.
kde3.3 slightly improved the situation, so they're back enabled for the next release
i'm working on a slight patch for the kicker applet (again - as i accidently deleted it) to (among other) solve this.
if (when) it works, the whole menu will look exactly like kicker (if you use the applet and kde3.3) or the application (if you use the plain toplevel menus)

ad4:
the default buttons are highlighted in buttoncolor (so the buttoncolor you set in the baghira config dialog should differ from the inactive button color, i.e. you see buttons hovering)
however, there has to be a default button in the application, of course

ad5:
maybe, maybe not - we'll see ;)

ad6:
has been discussed before

ad7:
the round buttons miss crisp edges (due to their shadow) so i cannot shape them (ok, i could, but if you have a white application background (or grey if b/m) this will look querky if the webpage has a black(white)/red/green/orwhatever background )
qt brings fully support for translucent widget (hopefully hw supported) so it may be then... - Aug 24 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

no, unfortunately not.
i do a lot of hacking to get the central gradient and i currently cannot say if it's possible to handle that by an option (at least not very efficient)

if there should really be a lot of request to have plain brushed metal, i'll see what i can do, but currently this is not on top of the priority list - Aug 24 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

doesn't matter - the error can occur on those systems as well (it's rather gcc than qt related, depends on how the sources are builded) - Aug 23 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

did you read the note above (there will be a kde3.3 aligned version anyway soon) - Aug 22 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

button width: search for "pixelmetric" in baghira.cpp
toolbar height: search for "kmenubar" in polish.cpp - Aug 22 2004