


Plasma Themes by ivancukic 15 comments
How exactly do you try to upload new files? Going to point some admin to your problem here. - Apr 08 2019
There is a bug with the metadata.desktop file, which prevents the installation via the Plasma GUI:
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=Velours 5
is no valid entry, there cannot be a space in the name key (which is used as identifier).For the display name the normal Name= entry is used, so there the space is fine.
As result the automated installation using in the background kpackagetool fails when it checks the validness:
$ kpackagetool5 -t Plasma/Theme -i /path/to/velours-plasma5.tar.gz
kf5.kpackage: pluginname: "Velours 5"
Error: Installation of /path/to/velours-plasma5.tar.gz failed: Package plugin name Velours 5 contains invalid characters
So you might want to change this to (based on the folder name used in the tarball):
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=velours-plasma5
BTW, is uploading new files still broken? Would be a shame if this theme is not available via GHNS (once that bug is fixed of course :) ). Please tell, so we can poke the right people to look into it. - Apr 08 2019

Plasma Themes by ivancukic 15 comments
Question: do you have time to care a bit for this, or shall I take over? No idea how to do the latter here on store.kde.org, possibly will have to create a forked product entry?
To unbreak the theme with current/upcoming versions of Plasma 5, at least this is needed:
change in the metadata.desktop file
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=default
to
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=spoons
otherwise GHNS/KNS will install this as an overload to the default theme (currently Breeze in the folder "default", breaking Breeze (and formerly Air/Oxygen).
Current released versions of Plasma blur things behind Plasma dialogs/tooltips, using the mask of the window. As workaround ons has to disable the Blur effect in the KWin windows settings. For the future (Plasma 5.16), the theme can control that blur behaviour though, but this entry in the metadesktop file:
[BlurBehindEffect]
enabled=false
- Mar 27 2019

Groupware by kossebau 2 comments
But to answer your question, yes, it is possible :) It may be even just a few lines so it warns a few day before, just have a look at the code, in services/birthday, it should be very simple. - Mar 12 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 12 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments
And yes, so far noone has packaged the current version. That is a shame, as IMHO things have enhanced a lot :) - Feb 08 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments
Are the faces still small on next start of Kicker? - Feb 08 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments
They all use the SmallIcon* classes to create the icons in the menu, which take the value from ControlCenter/Look/Symbols, tab Enhanced, select Small Symbols, Size box. So you can adapt it there, but that should change the size for all menus. If you want to change it only for the contacts applet, you have to add the Size behind the name in the call to SmallIcon*. See http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKIconLoader.html#m7 - Feb 06 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by skadge 22 comments
Anyone is welcome to write things like the LastFm plugins. Have a look into properties/examples as a starting point, and do not hesitate to contact me: kossebau (at kde org. - Jan 06 2007

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 12 comments
2. Support for moving applets is given by Kicker, nothing an applet developer can do about. To move things around, undo the fixing of the kicker bars and click the small handler bar next to the applet, like one has to do for all applets (don't mix the treatment with that of builtin buttons, they behave differently :/ )
3. Icon is too huge? Iconsizes should be calculated by the size of the kicker bar. Could you send me a small screenshot, to show what you mean? kossebau (at kde org. - Dec 27 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 12 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 12 comments
So plain users should just add the applet to Kicker and have fun. The config file is only needed for people adding their own properties and services, which includes coding :)
Hm. Perhaps I should promote the applet separately.
Added a hopefully useful comment to the description for now. - Dec 18 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments
What I experienced is that the menu (and so kicker as the menu "runs" inside the kicker process) does not update to resource selection changes (perhaps due to a bug in kdelibs?). Something I had no time to investigate so far. - Mar 04 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments
Klappflax.kcsrc:
[Color Scheme]
Name=Klax II
activeBackground=208,104,7
activeBlend=128,0,0
activeForeground=255,255,255
activeTitleBtnBg=214,205,187
alternateBackground=240,217,175
background=244,221,178
buttonBackground=244,221,178
buttonForeground=0,0,0
contrast=2
foreground=0,0,0
frame=208,104,7
handle=244,221,178
inactiveBackground=189,171,138
inactiveBlend=208,104,7
inactiveForeground=245,236,226
inactiveFrame=244,221,178
inactiveHandle=244,221,178
inactiveTitleBtnBg=140,90,35
linkColor=0,0,192
selectBackground=128,0,0
selectForeground=255,255,255
shadeSortColumn=true
visitedLinkColor=128,0,128
windowBackground=255,242,215
windowForeground=0,0,0 - Feb 15 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments
Added simple support for edit of contact in KAddressbook's editor in 0.3.2. Due to a bug in KAddressbook it only works properly if KAddressbook is already running. :( - Feb 13 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments
Perhaps something for KDE 4 :) - Feb 12 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments
Support for smarter/configurable grouping is on the TODO list. But this might take time until march 06 or later, sorry. Then, the source is there, go ahead yourself :P - Jan 30 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 39 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 6 comments
no idea if it really works with KDE 3.3. It is prepared to, but I did not test it lacking a 3.3 on my machine. Please try and tell us.
What do you mean by "Switches"? Keyboard Shortcuts?
About how to lock: This is planned for 3.5. But will not be implemented in this preview (at least by me ;)
Friedrich - Jul 19 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kossebau 6 comments
2) The idea to show the status of a session (un-/locked) is good, will think about picking it up.
3) For now only running sessions are shown, due to kdm missing support for a call to start a session with a given user. Might change for 3.5, but no promises.
4) Well, I myself don't like the extra titles too much, but they help visually, really. Play with the code :)
5) Sometimes you might want to change this setting on the fly. I did ;) But there might be an option to suppress this setting. The default will be customizable, of course.
5 #2) too much visual noise I think.
On the removal of shutdown: These actions are usually used once upon a session so I think they do not deserve too much screen real estate on their own. And they all operate on the current session, so they should be available together.
Friedrich - Jul 12 2005