equinoxe

Laur Ivan

Hi, I am equinoxe and I create KDE 3.5 Themes, KDE Plasma Screenshots, Various Artwork and more.

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KDE 3.5 Themes

msstyle loader prototype

KDE 3.5 Themes Aug 30 2004

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KDE Plasma Screenshots

Tweaked kicker :)

KDE Plasma Screenshots Oct 24 2002

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Various Artwork

An idea

Various Artwork Feb 04 2004

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Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements

UI enhancement (KDE 3.1.3)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements Aug 07 2003

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test

mac like slack

KDE Plasma Screenshots 25 comments

by polemos

Score 50.0%

May 09 2005

That's the way I had the defaults when i did the patch in kde (macos..), but it's highly dependent on the font you use (try the thick shadow with a thin font).. having it as a halo looks decent regardless on the font, so I agree with David and the other lads/lasses for such default setting. It was supposed to get integrated in the setup wizard (look like mac when you choose a mac behaviour etc.), I don't think anyone got around to do it yet...

Cheers,

Laur - Oct 13 2004

msstyle loader prototype

KDE 3.5 Themes 29 comments

by equinoxe

Score 58.0%

Aug 30 2004

Yes, there s quite a bit of that involved, but as far as which bitmap does what in the style, it's pretty straight forward. plus the fact that kde style uses a subset of the msstyle library (the msstyle includes all kind of extra bits that are unusable in kde - e.g. the start bar stuff, menu things)

thanks for the thinkeramik pointer :) I'll have a look and hopefully i'll figure out how to draw the scrollbars...

Cheers,

L - Aug 30 2004

thanks a mill. that's it! :) i'll be looking at ti later on :)

Thanks again,

L - Aug 30 2004

Thanks for the feedback! :)

The "cancel" on the initial dialog box implies a QString::null (if i remember correctly), and the subsequent code tries to open the file with that name (no safety code here). that's why it crashes..

I'll try to do something about scrollbars, but i must admit i'm not entirely sure how to paint it and that's why i'm looking fr help from a "pro" :)

Cheers,

L - Aug 30 2004

can you please give me some more details? like the style name(/location)? Thanks,

L - Aug 30 2004

for the double posting. i got a timeout (0 sized reply) from the server... - Aug 26 2004

Looking Glass

KDE Plasma Screenshots 3 comments

by AncientGreek

Score 50.0%

Mar 29 2004

One could but wonder what are the hardware specs of the machine performing the demo :) - Mar 31 2004

My Login Manager

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements 123 comments

by Braindead

Score 50.0%

Mar 24 2004

De gustibus non disputandum est (each one with his/hers own taste). it's 2000+ years old :).

imho one should adopt a more positive attitude (along the lines "I don't like this so I'll make my own" in this case)... - Mar 24 2004

An idea

Various Artwork 8 comments

by equinoxe

Score 50.0%

Feb 04 2004

Thanks :) - Feb 05 2004

Done. It's the second thumbnail :) (also in the download). - Feb 04 2004

Knifty

KDE 3.x Window Decorations 100 comments

by ceebx

Score 50.0%

Aug 24 2003

Nop. it's checked. and the rc file has it as "true". I really don't know where this comes from... :( The only messages I get are complaining about creating pixmaps without a QApp running.. but I can't say its the windeco or other app... - Aug 22 2003

Just updated to kde 3.1.3 and I have no shadow anymore :( whatever I do... I recompiled the source and reinstalled it and still no shadow.. :(((

Cheers,

Laur - Aug 21 2003

Very cute and not as tireing as keramik :)
Good work! - Aug 11 2003

UI enhancement (KDE 3.1.3)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements 139 comments

by equinoxe

Score 50.0%

Aug 07 2003

As mentioned below, You need to compile/patch libkonq as well :) - Aug 12 2003

Hi,

I have posted some quickies below for getting shadows. - Aug 12 2003

look below :) - Aug 12 2003

Hi,

Some examples of entries are:
"OS X" , QString("0, 1, 16.0, 192.0, 2, 4, 0"));
"Windows XP" , QString("1, 1, 32.0, 139.0, 2, 4, 0"));
"Soft outline" ,QString("0, 0, 4.0, 170.0, 1, 4, 0"));

- the first 2 entries are x,y offsets (0,0 means right behind the text).
- following two determine the halo (factor, max opacity).
- thickness (how large the halo is
- selected algorithm (4 is the only implemented and probably will be removed
in 3.2)
- selection (inverse video or use the background text color) - boolean 0/1

Cheers,

Laur - Aug 12 2003

It looks like the shadow sources are not compiled for some reason... :(. There are 2 ways to solve this:
1. remove all the objects (make clean) in kdesktop
2. check Makefile.am sources and add the files by hand.

Also, you may want to check if there's a Makefile.am.rej lying around somewhere... - Aug 12 2003

The settings for various styles are:
("OS X"): "0, 0, 1, 16.0, 192.0, 2, 4, 0"
("Windows XP"): "1, 1, 1, 32.0, 139.0, 2, 4, 0"
("Soft outline"): "2, 0, 0, 4.0, 170.0, 1, 4, 0"

Just replace the "schema" line in kdesktoprc" and refresh the desktop. I do it having a "set background open" and hitting "apply" after manually changing something (after checking/unchecking a box to enable it). This will send the dcop message to the desktop and tell it to read from the file again.

Cheers,

Laur - Jul 14 2003

Hi and sorry for the great delay...

Yop, it's in the cvs (most of it).. - Jul 14 2003

The request was to keep as minimalistic as possible. I assume the setup wizard will set up the appropriate scheme for shadowing (osx, xp etc.) when the setup is started.

Cheers,

Laur - Jul 14 2003

Heh.:) I should do some docs about the shadow... Anyway, in kdesktoprc, you have to change the "ShadowCurrentScheme". Several settings are provided in the sources...

[FMSettings]
ItemTextBackground=invalid
NormalTextColor=255,255,255
ShadowCurrentScheme=1,1,32.0,169.0,2,4,0 #0,0,4.000000,255.000000,3,0,0
ShadowEnabled=true
ShowFileTips=true

Cheers,

Laur - Jul 14 2003

Hi,

can you please send me an e-mail off the board with the error you get?

Cheers,

Laur - Jun 24 2003

hmm.. this looks like you haven't installed kdelibs (kdefx to be exact) or your includes in kdebase point to the old (original?)includes. Try defining the KDEDIR/KDEHOME paths and ./configure and make again.

Cheers,

Laur - Jun 24 2003

There is a simple(r) way out:

kdelibs should patch with kde 3.1.x without problems. Then libkonq and kdesktop should patch cleanly too. The only bit is the frontend which is different in 3.1 series. ...and i'm working on that :)

Then, theoretically, you should be able to use the config file generated already in 3.2 :) - Jun 23 2003

Hi, I just got this morning a patch from Bernardo in ShadowEngine (kdelibs/kdefx). I've added that to the patch today. So you could download the patched patch (:P) or could change the second constructor to:

+
+ShadowEngine::ShadowEngine(ShadowItem *fx) :
+ m_shadowItem(0L)
+{
+ setShadowItem(fx);
+}

the m_shadowItem(0L) was missing so if the location was not 0L, the setItem() would try to delete it... - Jun 23 2003

Yes, that's true. My mistake. I forgot to include the changes in libkonq. They are now in the patch. You should be able to patch libkonq now. As for integration to CVS, Chris Lee is working on it :) so it should be soon (I hope) - Jun 23 2003

Hi,

To be honest, I think you should have placed the message in the general discussion list. My patch doesn't really deal with this kind of things. It's just ammending the way things are drawn on the desktop (which is a sort of iconview...) - Jun 18 2003

"web" (it's on kde3.1) with a "light style 3rd rev" as style. - Mar 18 2003

this patch is meant for the kde CVS. You can find all the information on how to install the CVS along with the default installation on kde.org (download source - installing 2 kde instances on the same system).

If you need more info, e-mail me instead posting a message :)

Cheers,

Laur - Mar 18 2003

..and sorry about that. Also, I havent got around to read the messages for quite a while, and sorry about that as well.

However, your politically correctness is actually cancelled just few words after you state it :). Instead of slagging, you could have posted me the message as other people did and/or make a better patch. Obviously you know how. - Mar 13 2003

As Deciare mentioned, the changes are replacing the text background checkbox/button in the dialog box. Anyway, I think the change of shadow and high customisability of it should not be encouraged.

I'd rather have it hidden (as other feats in kde are) and per-distro set. Anyway, I don't think most users would configure the shadow type more than 1-2 times (if ever), especially because it requires to have the font configuration panel open as well (different shadows look better with different fonts and aliasing settings)...

Just my 2c :) - Mar 13 2003

..for your suggestion :). sent.. - Mar 13 2003

Well, you actually can use it everywhere if you please, because the shadow algorithm & base is placed in kdefx. all you need is to look in kdesktop/kfileividesktop.cpp and see how the shadow is drawn. ...and copy the code into your one :)

Cheers,

Laur - Mar 13 2003

Hi,

Unfortunately, it looks like kicker control section has a link to background/libbgnd.la instead of kdeui/kdefx. Try going in kcontrol/background and do a "make clean all".
It should fix any problems.

I'd go recompile kdebase from scratch, but that's me :)

Cheers,

Laur - Mar 12 2003

I'll do a proper shadowconfig in the next couple of days (with kdevelop that is :) ) and a patch to the kcontrol module to be able to set up the few shadow types from a combo box. - Feb 18 2003

..I've mentioned that the shadowconfig is a quickie :). I'm reluctant to installing the desktopdata.h in include because is meant to be an internal class only for kdesktop. I'd rather have a combo box with predefined themes, since all people will desire will most likely be one of the configurations displayed in the readme file. - Feb 14 2003

Well, i did mention that i'm a bit useless on doing patches :)

What do you mean "file manager"? I think adding the effect in konqueror is rather extreme :). However, it can be done by moving all the fx stuff from kdesktop to libkonq (I think) (or kiconview in kdelibs/kdeui).

As for the patch, please do! :) you can send it to me @ laurivan*at*eircom.net and i'll have a look... - Feb 12 2003

heh. a new one is available now. I'm rather useless in doing patches, but a patch -bR - Feb 11 2003

a mil for the optimism. :)

3.1 is frozen now and I still have few more bits to do on the patch to check the font's color and do an "inverse video" for the shadow.

maybe after 3.1 (3.1.1?). I'm still waiting for more feedback on how configurable this should be... :) - Jan 27 2003

On the desktop I found out that "Impact" (thicker fonts in general) look better with the patch if they're antialiased. Thin fonts seem to fade into the shaddow/background.

On the kicker I think it's "Verdana". Both come standard with MS Win. Verdana I think is free and it can be found on sourceforge. - Jan 27 2003

It's Impact. If it's in the ms free webfonts you can get it off sourceforge (can't remember exactly the page but a googleing should provide). Otherwise, a M$ license may be required... - Jan 24 2003

this evening. I promise :). I did a patch last night (@ 2am) and i've noticed today that it didn't include the new files :(.

Also, I've changed the kdelibs extension so it won't break binary compatibility (as mentioned on the kde-devel list). - Jan 24 2003

for letting me know :) any screenshots around?

Hope we'll see it soon. - Jan 23 2003

OUCH!

imho per-desktop handling is a huge development task with relatively little usability gain. The halo should solve the different backgrounds problem elegantly enough.

- Jan 23 2003

Well, I can certainly do a diff with the cvs :). But you'll probably have to compile kde again (see description on why).

I'd appreciate though if anyone has a kde cvs and could compile kdeui with the change from the above descrption and tell me if it keeps binary compatibility :) - Jan 23 2003

KDE3.2 cvs

KDE Plasma Screenshots 4 comments

by armstrong

Score 50.0%

Jul 08 2003

The default config has been minimized in the favor of an external "theme"/wizard setting :) - Jul 09 2003

Lickable

KDE Plasma Screenshots 10 comments

by noonespecial

Score 50.0%

Feb 01 2003

Some things must have changed in the kicker code since I did the patch. I'll do an update later today and put out a new patch.

Thanks for pointing that out.

L - Feb 03 2003

...3.1 libs and base are needed. the kdelibs bit of the patch affects only kdeui lib. and it's binary compatible, so it's the only thing you need to build. Then you need to recompile/install kdesktop. However, as mentioned above, it works best with relatively thick fonts (or aliased), the shadow is only black @ this stage. As they say: "stay tuned for a new more configurable verion of the patch" in the next couple of days :) - Feb 03 2003

Yop, it's definately possible. I'm working to improve my quick halo hack with a configurable version and a more complete behavior: people using my code might have noteiced the unpleasant behavior when the item is selected.

Also, there will be 3 (or 4) shadow algorithms available for people to play with :)

ps: you could have had the kicker pixmap patch added as well :)))

Cheers,

Laur - Feb 03 2003