Tag Archives: kde4

Some commits to Plasma

Today 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 😀

My first plasmoid :)

It’s a simple trashcan applet, it still has some quirks but it does more or less what it is supposed to do 🙂
It’s on kde svn at /trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/trash/

Another alpha of Polyester 2

I am very busy this period, so it’s some week I don’t touch a line of code 🙁
So today having a more or less free day, I’ve decided to finally release the last installments of
Polyester and Tastymenu I had sitting on my hd by quite some time, so now I can return to the boring stuff 😛
Polyester 1.95

First alpha of Polyester2

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

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

Mart

Tale of a little pixel