Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

dunno about checkinstall, but it seems that either bab didn't compile successfully or it was not installed into the proper position. (/usr/bin/bab)
as bab is the first item in the chain, i guess this will hold for anything else as well.

did you get any further error messages during the compile process?
(try to
make 2>&1 | tee myMake.log to get a readable textfile you can e.g. grep for errors)

if not: i probably can't help you - you'll need help from rmp experts who know more about the checkinstall needs

maybe you need to run make install before running checkinstall (would help, as the files then should be in proper location) - Aug 21 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i did not update baghira itself (wouldn't be possible, as sf.net does not allow to delete or overwrite files)
but just informed everyone aabout the missing includefile (the second update was actually necessary, because typing " - Aug 21 2004
Context-Sidebar

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by rabauke 14 comments

if it's autohiding, you won't waste any space - right? ;) - Aug 21 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

bitstream vera sans
(if there are icons on the desktop, quill script - dunno if this one is free) - Aug 21 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

there was no gradient.
(the "brighter" color is virtually - you just see the center of the b/m gradient) - Aug 21 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

not tested qt3.3.3 yet, but smells like an include error (maybe qt needs an include file before qobject now???)
answer tommorrow, when i updated my system. - Aug 21 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

they're brighter, because the brushed metal background is nevernever resized.
scaling is pretty slow, because the pixmap has first to be converted into an image (or a stored image has to be converted to a pixmap) - very slow function - and furthermore smooth rescaling isn't a fast function as well.
no good for a style ;)
(should qt provide acces to static gl functions will i try the effect - but until then: no) - Aug 21 2004
Context-Sidebar

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by rabauke 14 comments

i misunderstood him, but i thought he was rather thinking of some kind of contest sensitive (autohiding) toolbar replacement than about dashboard (what will make it necessary to write a comm protocol first, where this should really align to the gnome Dashboard protocol) - Aug 20 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

seem uic/moc isn't found
1st make sure you have installed them (part of qt, development section (i've no ideas about packaging))
whereis uic
whereis moc
should reply a nice path
then (ihmo) qt expects them to be in $QTDIR/bin, so make sure sure they can be fould there.
you won't be able to compile ources that include .ui files otherwise
you can also create the header/source files by hand
uic foo.ui -o foo.h
uic -impl foo.h foo.ui -o foo.cpp - Aug 20 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

oh, and if you want to go on with debian you should get some gnu/linux knowledge.
try this:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ - Aug 19 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

you need to install
- gcc
- glibc
- glibc - development packages
- xfree/qt/kde development packages

if you're fairly new to linux/compilers you may want to use a binary package for fast results - Aug 19 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

the comicframe thing is fixed (sorry for that)
about the comboboxes:
i (virtually) lower the frame to appear under the label (gb name)
now if a developer decides to place objects in his groupbox very high (intersecting the label but still under the text) the frame will be overwriiten (as part of the label)

solution:
1. i kick the groupboxes as they are (especially the shadows)
2. ask the application author to slightly redesign his groupbox
(no, i'm not gonna check and if necessary rearrange the groupboxes)
3. i find another solution... - Aug 18 2004
Daneel

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by neptune3k 21 comments

(D'OHH)
ok, forget about it - just read the description - Aug 17 2004
Daneel

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by neptune3k 21 comments

...reiser4 or are you setting a dbase on top of the filesystem? - Aug 17 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

well, i hardly can do, as i don't use a ppc...
dunno if you can, but if you can you can...
ok, seriously:
to fix that problem i first need to exactly know where the problem occurs, therefore i need to know (exactly) on which widgets the error occurs and what exactly is the result. (i think you're talking about the coloring stuff)

so you either need to count me the widgets or make screenshots of them (and some widgets that you think should also have this problem, but don't have)

afterwards, we'll see - but i cannot fix things i cannot test and have no idea about (the ppc architecture in difference to the intel arch - only thing i know is the little/big endian stuff)

if you want to work on this - mail me.
(but this is no promise for success) - Aug 14 2004
Liquid

KDE 3.5 Themes by sarath 35 comments

kiconedit crashes with any style that dares to replace the background with something different from a color.
i hacked around that in the last baghira version - look at the code.
if you need advice, tell me. - Aug 14 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

the style is bsd licensed, the deco gpl
bsd is much more free than gpl (you can allmost do anything with he code, including the use for closed source commercial stuff)
personally i prefer the gpl over bsd, but it was mosfet's choice (and despite the fact that bsd would allow to redistribute the code as gpl and there's not much of liquid code left) i still took it as base and therefore honor his wish - Aug 14 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

if you're (hopefully) referring to the shadowed groupboxes - i rewrote the whole code on this section and now it's first ways faster and second "glitchfree".
if you were not: usually the checkboxes and radios should align to the window background, if they do not: please tell me in which app exactly the glitch appears - Aug 14 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i'm not really sure what you're looking for, but e.g. try 0/30/205 to get a blue quite flat button - or just try around with the sliders - Aug 12 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

hardly, the aquarius function works totally different.
however, using higher values for r/g/b and similar values (r ~ g ~ b) will result in low saturated buttons (r == g == b -> grey)
so e.g. try 200/200/255 - Aug 12 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i'm not gonna release a fc binary - mainly because i do not run fedora (or any other valid distro)
if someone is willing to create some binaries, he's welcome.
(ask me to get upload permittance for sf.net) - Aug 11 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

addidng space between the buttons is up to you and ord kwin. baghira hasn't changed in this matter anyway (simply add a spacer between the buttons if you want one)

the kwindeco has changed in matter of buttons only (i also change the default height setting, but you're still free to freely adjust it - change minimum titlebar height value)
also the button shape and height as only changed marginally - and the new ones are in fact more apple like.
what you notice most and will worry about is the button coloring.
the buttons are since 0.5 free colorable.
0.5a introduced new default colors (at least for close/max/min)
enter the config dialog, press "configure button colors" and load defaults.
you may then adjust the colors to your wishes. - Aug 08 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

do you get a usefull backtrace from this?
if, please mail me (don't post it here!) - Aug 08 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

nope, actually i did.
i did not update the version number (and i forgot for the 0.5a update i'm currently uploading as well)
actually the config for the style hasn't changed for 0.5 - all the light gradient stuff is done internal - there are no more options for you to tweak ;)
(don't forget: every option costs speed for app startup) - Aug 07 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

unfortunately, there's no way back to the old rect buttons (most users seem to prefer the new ones though - i do as well ;)
you can try to modify the utils.cpp file.
search for the drawRectangularButton function and modify it by setting
pos = center;
before doing anything else.
maybe you like that - Aug 07 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

you can't.
this is a little hack i applied to the kmenu applet.
as i couldn't get it really to work as i wnated it and i replaces the default applet and you need the kicker sources to compile it, i never released it.
(the problem is, that the window name information isn't consistent about the use of the dash to separate the app name from other things) - Aug 07 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

about the tab buttons:
i guess konqueror and konsole use the same library (ktabbar?) and it assumes that the buttons have height for width (i.e. the hight equals the width)
as this doesn't hold for baghira (i forced the buttons to have a 4:3 look, like the iTunes buttons) i'm pretty sure that causes the mess up.
i'll try to catch those buttons somehow and not apply the resize to them.
thanks for notice - Aug 06 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

- did you look in the kcontrol center or in the style/windeco module?
- are you sure, compilation didn't fail?
- does kdeconfig --prefix return a valid path? - Aug 06 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

juk itself isn't "skinnable".
it's just baghira and some action buttons (black arrows) try to get them from a osX emu page (e.g. osx-e.com) but notice: the icons there are property of apple - you're viloating cr by downloading them.
there's a (free) icon theme for baghira iTunes buttons coming up - Aug 06 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

no way, sorry (and this time i mean "no way" - unlike the stuff i told about the light gradient :)
all i can do is replace the highlight brush with some kind of pixmap, but qt then paints that pixmap as brush over the whole highlighted area (i.e. i have no runtime control over the painting function)

about your screenshot:
the tab/button conflict is upon the konqueror/qt position/size calculation i just paint the tabs and buttons where the application tells me to do (i guess konqueror messes up with the centered tabs when calculating those positions)
the stuff around the rounded buttons appears, as the pixmaps are precalculated and not alpha blended on runtime (as that is slow) - i suggest to not use the rounded taskbuttons if you wish a translucent kicker - Aug 05 2004
Baghira SuSE 9.x RPM

KDE 3.5 Themes by Massive 154 comments

hardly. konqueror (in this case at least) and qt calculate the positions of the tabs. i do only paint them.
as the button widgets lie on a higher stack position, they'll shadow the tabs (tis i s a good idea, as otherwise the tabs could make it impossible to use the buttons)
so i fear konqueror/qt mess up with the geometry when tabs are center aligned and therefore fail on proper tab calculation - sorry - Aug 05 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

thanks, but i guess kde can live without legal issues with apple ;) (me too, btw.) - Aug 05 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

did you use a binry or compile from source?
(if you use the binary, please mention this to the binary provider)
if you compiled from source, you linked baghira against a qt version you're currently not using (3.3.1) usually it will link against the default qt libs (i'm still using qt 3.2.x as well) - Aug 05 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

ah, ok, i see...
if it's possible to combine the sidebarbuttons (or at least check if a button is a sidebarbutton) i may do so, but i'm not sure if it is (i fear not, imho their just kbuttons - so i cannot really distinguish between them and common buttons) - Aug 04 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

sounds as if either the windeco compile fails, or the files are installed into the wrong path. please ask elias, as i have no idea on getoo. - Aug 04 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

the windeco buttons (which exactly are you talkng about?) are now freely colorable. is it that what you mean?
if you feel the preset colors doesn't align your opinion (i think i use colors different from the preset as well) - change them.
the button pixmaps are quite the old ones, but all (round) buttons base upon the same (grey) button.
the button icons (x/+/-) are blended on separately, and also taken from the old buttons (or a similar copy)

the buttons on kde look do not hover as their button color is set to a fixed color (by the hmtl stuff)
the webbuttons itself got colored, e.g. try
http://www.herr-der-ringe-film.de
(shameless promotion :) - no, not my page) - Aug 04 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

well good news then...
this is somehow modified in the upcoming release.
b/m will have a continous comic frame, darkened version of the titlebar (left) color - no matter wheter you activate the comicframe or not.
the other decos will have a fracted comic frame. the top part is a darkened version of titlecolro as well, the rest a darkened version of titleblend (right) color. - Aug 03 2004
New home to Home

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zammi 15 comments

did you read my above posting?
trust me, (ok, afaik) the only way to get this is to redesign the way menus work, e.g. by making use of dcop.

the current solution from kmenubar does only replace the whole menubar widget on the screen - it does _not_ shift control to another application (while this should never be allowed...)

if you know a piece of code that allows to reparent widget into different applications, please mail me - thanks - Aug 02 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

the dialog code is autogenerated from the ui files (you need to have them.. ;)
Check if uic (and moc) is available on your system (whereis uic)
if not: get them! (somewhere in the qt development packages (_not_ dev part of the libraries, while you'll still need them to compile qt apps)) - Aug 02 2004
New home to Home

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zammi 15 comments

the topmenu is done by making the menubar a toplevel widget (putting it into its own, but unmanaged window - similar to dockwindows or tearoff popups (while they're managed))
the inclusion into kicker is realized via xembed.
while the titlebar could also embed the menu, it has no control over its look what would look freaky as long as the titlebar doesn't look like the style background (i.e. plain, or background pixmap)
for instance, you cannot get a translucent menu within a translucent kicker (as the menu still belongs to another application - kwin cannot just take control over a foreign widget (that could also belong to another user!!!))

afaik gtk can extract menus as well (if they get the proper netwm tag, they'd also be includable) but please don't ask me how! (but tell me, if you know ;) - Aug 02 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

err... as long as you don't use rectangular buttons, the look of the sidebarbuttons did _not_ change betwen 0.4c and 0.4d (not since somewhen in the 0.3 series anyway)
could you please provide a screenshot of what they looked like before and after? (if you just mean rect buttons should be rather combined, i.e. no rounded edges, mentioning that will be enough - but again: i'm yet not if this is possible at all) - Aug 02 2004
New home to Home

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zammi 15 comments

1. making the menu part of the titlebar is not possible unless you decide to change major parts of qt and/or netwm or making kwin netwm incomatible.
(actually you could include the MacOS style (top) menubars into the title - but they'd keep their look, dependend on the style, not the deco)

2. you could add as many buttons into the titlebar as you like whether you include that feature into the deco or the kwin client and maybe it would even possible to make them cover the application (while the latter could be a bad idea) but why?
with kde 3.3 the user will be able to add about 9 (!!!) buttons into the titlebar, where imho 3-4 are right enough (close/min/max/ maybe "keep above")
i think the titlebar really shouldn't become too complex and you can still have the home icon on your desktop and even as a sidebar button in konqueror (personally i have one as icon on an autohiding kicker panel on the left of my desktop)

3. moving the windowtitle to the bottom (or left or right) isn't a big deal at all, but again: covering the application may first be impossible and second not a very good idea at all.
besides this most users expect window informations on the top of the window (as m$ and apple and most unix windowmanagers in the past did like this) - Aug 02 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i'm not really sure what you're talking about, as the only new thing about the tabs in 0.4d is the hovering (and the sidebar buttons hover by default)

the sidebar buttons should look like central chooser elements (i'm really not sure, if it's possible to give them rounded ends - i've no idea if they're indexed - while i could try to figure out)

however, this look is size triggered (as the bottom buttons for krusader etc.)
This is lame, but the only way, as long as the buttons don't derive a class of their own (so i could distinguish them from ordinary buttons) - Aug 02 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

*ggg* you still didn't got me...
what i rather meant was:
does it appear to _all_ (each and every) menubar over all the time or just some (menubars of some applications)

but as mentioned before, i redesigned the code in this matter, so don't worry - it should be fixed on next release - Aug 02 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

understood that.
the question was rather, if it occurs to all toolbars (konqueror, kmail, etc...) or just to some few (gwenview, e.g.)
however, i redesigned the code and put that from the drawing stuff to the widgets eventfilter - what will also hold for the mac style menus - Aug 01 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

does it happen to all menubars on kde 3.3?

(in this case, i'll redesign the code - mosfet's solution to this was rather a hack) - Aug 01 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

to have slimmer border lines, the choosers and listviewheaders only draw borders on the right side.
if you hover a section, this one is repainted - with the result that it's border is being repainted as well... in button color.
this is changed for the next release, as i found the effect is a bit odd (borders will allways be painted in inactive color)

about the "shadows" of pressed buttons:
the idea is rather, that the button emits light.
when pressed down into the parent, this will cause reflections (the widget is illuminated in button light color)
so they're no shadows and are therefore intended to be colored in the button color - Jul 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

be sure to have the kde effects (all!) deactivated.
i.e. no translucency (should be forbidden anyway), no fade or scroll effect from the kde settings.
use the effects from baghira instead - Jul 31 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

It was removed, because the coloring function was not compatible with the new aquarius function.
However, it is possible to gain color effects similar to the old icy coloring making use of the aquarius function.

try around with the sliders a bit - maybe you'll find values that will please you.

if you like blue, try 173/188/243 e.g. - Jul 30 2004
KFormDesigner

Developers Apps by cpasteur 29 comments

errr... don't get me wrong, but i never had any problems to understand the qt designer code (reading itself isn't a big deal since i mastered elementary school :)
could you just give a simple example how to create messy code?
(e.g. click here, group there - Jul 30 2004