{"id":359,"date":"2008-03-23T20:52:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T20:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/index.php\/Graphics\/A_simple_way_to_test_Plasma_them"},"modified":"2008-03-23T20:52:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T20:52:30","slug":"a_simple_way_to_test_plasma_them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/a_simple_way_to_test_plasma_them\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple way to test Plasma themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago when testing the code that draws the svg themes in Plasma (like applet backgrounds, panels and tooltips) i wrote a very simple plasmoid that its sole purpose was to test that code, its very uninspiring name was SvgPanelTest, because surprise surprise it was a test for the class named SvgPanel:P<br \/>\nIt turns out this applet can be actually useful also for theme designers that wants to test the themes they&#8217;re doing without killing plasma all the times.<\/p>\n<p>Since now there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/dot.kde.org\/1206097090\/\">contest<\/a> to make Plasma even more gorgeous, i&#8217;ve decided to publish it in an easily buildable source package, and i hope that it could somewhat help you (yes, YOU :P) to make a beautiful theme that will make vista and osx to look as they are coming straight from the 80&#8217;s (well even if it&#8217;s a very little help :D)<\/p>\n<p>You can download it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/files\/svgpaneltest-0.1.tar.bz2\">here<\/a> (also a kde-look page <a href=\"http:\/\/kde-look.org\/content\/show.php?content=77544\">here<\/a>) or from KDE&#8217;s svn  in \/playground\/plasma\/applets\/svgpaneltest<\/p>\n<p>Some notes:<\/p>\n<p>To build it a KDE4 developing environment is needed (see <a href=\"http:\/\/techbase.kde.org\/index.php?title=Getting_Started\/Build\/KDE4\">the techbase article<\/a>)<br \/>\nat least KDE 4.0.2 is required, but a recent svn snapshot is preferred.<\/p>\n<p>A plasma restart could be needed to see it listed among the plasmoids, or you can also start it with the command<br \/>\nplasmoidviewer svgpaneltest<br \/>\nor, with a very recent svn snapshot (from some minutes ago actually :P)<br \/>\nplasmoidviewer svgpaneltest \/path\/to\/your\/theme.svg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago when testing the code that draws the svg themes in Plasma (like applet backgrounds, panels and tooltips) i wrote a very simple plasmoid that its sole purpose was to test that code, its very uninspiring name was SvgPanelTest, because surprise surprise it was a test for the class named SvgPanel:P It turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[99,2,10,21,7,101],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics","tag-graphics-2","tag-kde","tag-kde4","tag-linux","tag-plasma","tag-plasmoid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}