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Some commits to Plasma

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new plasma desktopToday you will find the plasma desktop looking something like this. This after some commits I did today that fixes two things.

First of all now the text fits better into the icon applet and you won’t get anymore text always elided also when this is not necessary.

And the new white text on dark background combination (that fits the general dark color scheme of plasma) ensures that the icon text is always readable no matter what the background is. Maybe in the future the text will appear with a blurred halo/drop shadow like in the poor old kdesktop or maybe it will stay so, we’ll see 😀

First alpha of Polyester2

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So I’ve decided to stop procrastinating and release a first alpha of Polyester 2 into the wild 🙂 you can get it here

some veeery important notes:

  • First of all it must be considered a very early alpha quality code not intended for everyday use, it could blow up your computer or eat your cat, use at your own risk 😛
  • as i said is not very stable and probably not all configuration option works
  • at the moment there is only the style, i don’t know if or when i will port the window decoration
  • it can be compiled with cmake (and you will need a kde4 snapshot o do so) typing
     cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=whathever you want
     make
     make install
  • or with qmake (you will need only qt4 with devel package, but you won’t get the configuration dialog)
    in order to use qmake you must go in the style subfolder and type:
     qmake qmake.pro
     make
     make install
  • probably i won’t release another release tarball for quite some time, but if you’re curious there is a bazaar repository at the bazaar repository

KDE4 in a Polyester dress

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KDE4 with Polyester2 theme

The Qt4 version of Polyester is coming along nicely, is still too unstable for a first release but i hope an alpha isn’t too far.
Here you can see a KDE4 beta1 screenshot as it appears with the Polyester theme.

As you can see it won’t be exactly identical to Polyester1, because I want to experiment some of the new goodies offered by qt4, so maybe in the future it will be even more aesthetical changes, i don’t know.

If you are impatient to try it there is always the bazaar repository on launchpad.net/polyester

Polyester 2: the mighty future!

BlaBla

I’ve started porting Polyester to qt4/kde4, it has been a nightmare even to get it compiled and it will be a very very big pain in the ass.
Curious to see a very very early screenshot? here it is 🙂

Polyester kde4as you can see at the moment the only things that looks decent are the buttons, the rest is a little bit… aehm 🙂

Polyester 1.0.1

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Yeah, it’s alive :). Finally i’ve decided to release a new version of Polyester. it contains only some minor bugfixes, in particular the long-annoying bug with kcompmgr should be gone (sometimes the windows weren’t completely painted).

As usual here you can download it and here it’s the changelog:

-corrected a build problem with automake 2.6+
widget:
 -better management of the menu stripe width
 -another hack for gtk-qt: the menu stripe is always off (yeah, it’s a broken solution but it was managed too bad…)
 -when both toolbar separators and menubar emphasis with border are turned on don’t draw an extra line under the menubar
deco:
 -when the focus policy is set to “focus follows mouse” the bad flickering should be done (need some testing)
 -corrected a bug that caused the windows not being completely painted when kcompmgr is activated