Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

this is fixed with 0.4c (it was never a real bug - just a trial to handle incomplete listviews) - Jul 27 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

neither nor.
the comic frame is a temporary q'n'd solution for the problem of missing a usefull distinction between windows.
(the apple windowmanager has no frame at all - no problem as the windows are shadowed. for kde you either need an advanced xserver or the hackish patch for kwin to gain them. so as soon, as xfree gets the xdamage/xcomposite extensions and therefore an alpha channel and (a.o.) shadows, the comicframe will turn useless and be removed. until then, there's no real concept of what it should look like. as the titlebar doesn't share the frames problem of being undistinctable (i'm not sure, if this word really exists...) it has no frame - that's it) - Jul 27 2004
AKDC Beta3 preview 2(see changelog)

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by jrch2k 356 comments

this config is _really_ big (even to me :)
fo a quick solution:
try pressing the alt key, click somewhere in the window and move it around freely - Jul 22 2004
AKDC Beta3 preview 2(see changelog)

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by jrch2k 356 comments

what do you mean rip-off???

this is a port of the nvidia windeco...
nVidia is quite strong on linux (X to be precise, well - at least in matters of 3D), so i don't see why they shouldn't be as present as on window$.
maybe they rather see this as quite good PR (they earn their money by selling and licensing GPUs - not by windecos, you know?)

- do you work for nVidia?
- do you speak in their name?
- if not: where do you want to know about their opinion on this...?!?

if you're an artist and feel the design presented here is insufficient for the great KDE, why don't you share your artificial talent with the rest of us?

if you don't feel able to realize your ideas due to a lack of cpp or other skills:
NO MATTER!
I'm pretty much sure someone will be found to help you bringing your art onto the screen.

If you're just here to troll around:
please move back to the heise.de userfore - some guys here try to work.

Thanks

ps: if you're really just a troll - don't hope to start a discussion with me - i simply won't notice - Jul 22 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

try to set the button color in the config dialog (position the slider until the preview button matches your wishes) - Jul 22 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

try to set custom kicker color - Jul 21 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

as i said:
from the error messages above i conot even guess where or why an error occurs. if you've got more detailed error logs - mailt them and i'll try to help you. - Jul 21 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

not from this error messages.
please log your ./configure and make output (append " 2>&1 | tee myMake.log" or " 2>&1 | tee myConfigure.log")
tar those logfiles together with the config.log in the top source dir and mail them to me. - Jul 19 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

depends on your current icon theme.
most theme inherits from hicolor, so the right place would be ~/.kde/share/icons/hicolor/widthxheight/action/kde.png

you could also place them into your local icon theme (if you have one)
so ~/.kde/share/icons/[myPreferredIconTheme]/.... - Jul 17 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

in fact i'm working on the round itunes buttons, but due to the tilable aspect of the buttons, this is quite hard (try to fract the itunes button into a 3x3 matrix, where the single parts can be somehow used to create a button of any size without scaling them...) - Jul 16 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

set titleshadow (for this design) to zero - Jul 16 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

1.: If you're talking about the lower two edges missing any comic frame when shaping those edges (round corners) try to activate the big bottom bar or use a biiger windowframe. The reason is, that X (the graphical system behind qt (similar to quartz and cocoa)) excludes this area from being drawn. so X simply dows not paint a parts of the window area.
the result is, that the last pixels you can see belong to the application, but not to the windowdecoration - i simply cannot paint in this area.
2.: Your wishes can _not_ be realized by the style, while i could trick around a bit to give kicker this gradient look, *all* kicker dependant widgets would become this look (this also includes configuration stuff of some applets) so applying a 3d look would mess up kicker look, if one does not use kicker as top taskbar exclusively.
Shaping is somehow impossible, as kicker does not get decorated by the kwin client.
The solution to this could be a specialised kicker extension.
3.: Ther *is* a good looking replacement for the konqueror throbber ;) It's part of the sources, but does not get installed by default (just copy it into your icon dir). Unfortunately the throbber currently (kde 3.2x) does _not_ support translucent pixmaps, as it doesn't get erased before repainting. (i.e. the pixmaps would get overlayed as long as the alpha channel is not of equal shape for every animation frame)
4.: can you provide me some nice alpha blended pixmaps of such titlebar buttons? (please try to not copy them directly out of osx)
5.: well, wait and see ;)
6.: could you please become a bit more specific?
But please do not forget: this is qt3 on Xfree - the performance of the rendering system isa _not_ comparable to cocoa on quarts eXtreme, n'key?
It seems qt4 is deefinitly an improvement - we'll see whats going one with the xserver development.
Things that _do_ take some time in baghira:
- Computation of the fake popuptranslucency (i.e. 1. blending, 2. cleaning) - due to the fdo extensions, any optimization on this would be false allocation of time
- animation stuff (of course)

if you've got specific speed issues, please tell me. - Jul 15 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

the kicker pager applet draws either the desktop background or a grey area - and does so for me.
if you set it to bckground image and have a dark image (or worse - moved the image away) you may get a black backgound - what are your exact setings? - Jul 14 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

kwin-dropshadow patch, or xdamage/xcomposite extensions from freedesktop.org - Jul 14 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

the easiest way is to use ksnapshot (comes with kde) - Jul 14 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

which pager do you use? (kpager runs fine for me - do you use a black background image??? :) - Jul 13 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

you need the kwin-dropshadow patch or the xdamage/xcomposite extensions from freedesktop.org to get either fake or true shadow support (latter one means to recompile x - afaik there are no biaries and there's also no stable tar yet) - Jul 13 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

2: iieehhh... please tell me your exact settings (or just mail me the ~/.kde/share/config/kwinbaghirarc)
3: related to the button/deco size relation. kwin draws the buttons after the titlebar (good idea... :) and the buttons overlay the bright line (i made a bright-dark border to provide distinction agains any kind of background) the only solution is to make the titlebar one pixel higher (config dialog)
4: have to check, if there schould usually be a checkmark, then (if) adjust the style code - thanks for notice - Jul 13 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

define the brushed metal look in the config dialog.
you may define the three styles as you like, but the third one is chosen if you want the deco to follow the style (i.e. sometimes use brushed metal style)
furthermore you can switch between the preconfigured deco themes by holding the ctrl key and pressing the left mousebutton over the titlebar (or by using the dcop interface) - Jul 13 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

there are two color schemes included, if you're referring to the brushed metal stuff, have you tried to activate brushed metal as default style (in baghira config dialog)
also consult the section about bab - Jul 13 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

baghira includes a windeco, try this ;) - Jul 13 2004
Sidebar improvement

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by ra1n 26 comments

get sunzi, "art of war" (translated into german as well)
and try to figure out about the importance of knowing, lerning from and stealing from your enemies

(if you're brave, get clausewitz as well (but he has his very own style of expressing himself...)) - Jul 13 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

1. no bug... but badly designed, i confess (look at the active inactive label bove the color)
2. what do you mean "incorrect"? please describe (or show) where you can see an error (to me, it's ok)
3. need screenshot, as i have absolutely no idea, what you're talking about
4. you should see cute little checkmarks near the checked itemtext (i do, textcolored) is it that, what you mean? (this is dependend on the style and the popupsettings (the popupitem has to tell the style, that it's checked - for the kwin client this is only the "no frame" option on kde 3.2.x))
note: i know, but i'm not developing on kde 3.3 - so you'll have to wait for the final 3.3 release - Jul 12 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

known, fixed, sorry
(update soon) - Jul 12 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

1. be sure to have 0.4b
2. activate incactive button frames
3. use the smooth (round?) toolbuttons for (currently) better effect
4. do _not_ have splitters (spacers) between buttons you want to be conjuncted - Jul 12 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

look at the baghira config dialog, menu section.
baghira uses it's own translucency engine for the menu translucency (to avoid artefacts, enable two side shadows etc)
as my engine would mess up when used together with the kde engine, i simply forbid the use of the kde one - Jul 12 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

add splitters.
if you're a coder and what to know how to change it in your code, review the polish.cpp file and look for ktoolbar - Jul 12 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

known, fixed, sorry (i didn't remind the ability to use text on toolbuttons, deactivate it to see usefull buttons) - Jul 12 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

what do you mean "not there"?: not shown in the style dialog or just not used?

did you pass the proper prefix at ./configure

did you uninstall the former version??? (otherewise at least that one should have remained in system)

where there any messages during make and especially make install?

--
'bout the progress: i didn't add any since 0.3whatever (long time) i just reordered them (the animated apple stuff is now in first position)... - Jul 11 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

but i uploded it around 19:00 cet - that should have been enough time (they used to need minutes at max - not houres) - Jul 11 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

sf.net needs really long to update their servers since some days.
try another server or wait some time (unfortunately baghira doesn't fit the kde-look.org 500kb limit) - Jul 11 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

ad 1: i'm thinking to completely disjunct active and inactive deco (_not_ buttons, to not allow user self confusion :) settings
ad 2: not really, you'd have to run a very (and i mean very) complex dynamic offscreen buffer (far beyond anything i did for the popups) or simply use the kdesktop background (what looks poor)
as we'll hopefully soon get some better xserver stuff from fdo, that would be quite overhelmed - Jul 10 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

0.4a contains the kwinclient sources from 0.4 - my fault (sorry)
0.4b somewhat soon (definitly this weekend) - Jul 10 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

do you get a usefull backtrace? (mail me)
(it's not crashing for me at all, and i don't know what could have broken it) - Jul 09 2004
Baghira SuSE 9.x RPM

KDE 3.5 Themes by Massive 154 comments

first off, this is not a "skin", n'kay?! ;)
windows uses skins, kde has styles... (while windows has no style at all =)

to answer your questions:
the buttons follow the button color in kcmshell colors (color section of kcontrol) you don't need to set some kind of hover color, just set the button color, baghira does the rest.

to use baghira with gtk2 applications like firefox, you could use the gtkqt engine for gtk applications.
however i currently would suggest to use one of the dozens osx like gtk styles that can be found all over the web.
the reason is that baghira moves deeply into the qt architecture to fake the osx look, so many things do not work with gtk applications and may lead to unwanted effects (i.e. color switching of the scrollbarslider is not supported etc.) - Jul 09 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

fixed - Jul 09 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

gap: in general it's quite easy to change this value (from within the code, afaik, there's no kde option)
the (current) key problem is, that i cannot query the buttons position (e.g. relative to the spacer items) and so simply would not know if i should draw the current button as left/right/center part of a button group or as a single button

deco: 0.4a included an outdated file (0.4) of the deco itself - sorry about that, i'll soon push 0.4c

icons: unfortunately, they're apples purpose, therefore i could not distribute them with baghira - Jul 09 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

the fdo page has a install guide (but as this stuff is still experimental, you'll need to rather compile a complete differnt x surrounding - what is a good idea...) - Jul 09 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

me too...
i just recompiled (0.4a) using gcc-3.4.1 witout any errors, compile failures or anything else (and no, no compile cache or anything like this, directly out of the package i uploaded)
maybe (gcc group stated that) gcc-3.4.0 is somwhat buggy.
try 3.4.1 (i can confirm, it works)

however. i just noticed, i included an outdated version of the kwin client (glossy won't work) so i'll push 0.4b soon.

please mail me your backtrace (as long as it's somewhat usefull and your config.log (not the configure output)) - Jul 08 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

this is nonrelated to baghira.
you either need the kwin-shadow patch (only available for 3.2.2) or the fdo xserver extensions (xdamage/xcomposite) which are currently unstable and only available via cvs
one of the next x.org releases hopefully contains those extension by default - Jul 08 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

i'm currently compiling gcc-3.4.1 to provide support for this compiler (as it now really seems, as if gcc will keep the iso-cpp strategy) until then the (plain, not somehow patched by distributors) 3.3 series (before 3.3.4?, i currently use 3.3.2 ) should work fine. - Jul 08 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

oh, and btw, you could have told me about your gcc version (makes things easier to me)

Thanks - Jul 08 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

well, it really compiles fine on my system (and it seems on some others as well) - otherwise i wouldn't release it!
however i just cannot test any existing version of gcc out there - sorry.
if i get problem notifications with some compilers, i correct them with the next release. - Jul 08 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

no, there where several wishes like this before
(didn't you get my remail?) - Jul 08 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

try to
#include "baghira.h"
on top of the file (which gcc version, btw.) - Jul 08 2004
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KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

currently: yes.
updating the "shadows" isn't smooth, as the shadows are only fake (xfree cannot handle the alpha channel / translucency)

once keith's extensions (fdo) made it into the x.org server, you'll get true translucency and true shadows
(and now don't ask me when this is gonna happen... :) - Jul 08 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1258 comments

sf.net sometimes need a while to update prdownloads - just try again (should work now) - Jul 08 2004
Liquid

KDE 3.5 Themes by sarath 35 comments

try to delete the autom4te cache in the top source dir, then make -f Makefile.cvs; ./configure && make again - Jul 08 2004
Firefox & Thunderbird icons

Icon Sub-Sets by aax24vb 28 comments

technically not, but as far as i understood gerv, i'm just not allowed to use icons different from the officially distributed ones (ok, no one can see what i'm doing on my desktop - but i'd like to honor the mozilla foundation wishes)

changing the wind'oh icons isn't that hard either, btw. - Jul 07 2004
Firefox & Thunderbird icons

Icon Sub-Sets by aax24vb 28 comments

Could you then just please give a hint which clause they do affect (i'm not a lawyer and i couldn't read anything in the license, that would explicitly forbid to create standalone icons and use or share them)
I think a lot of guys around here are similar confused, so if you exaclty know, why this conflicts with the terms of the mozilla license - please enlighten us.

Thanks - Jul 07 2004