
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
Widget style + kwin decoration both aimed to be a good balance between eye candy and simplicity
11 years ago
2.0
-some fixes in build files, links less stuff
-fixed icons on tabbars
-fixed a bug in kcalc
2.0 beta2
-built with cmake is a kstyle, built with qmake is a plain qt style
-some fixes here and there
-corrected a crash with qt webkit
-corrected a graphical glitch with textboxes in Plasma
Polyester 1.0.5:
-compiles with gcc 4.3
Polyester 1.0.4:
-Corrected some visual glitches in ksnapshot
Polyester 2.0 Beta1:
-some graphics fixes
-some build system fixes
-translations should be ported
Polyester 1.0.3:
-Polish translation by Tomek Argasiński
-Italian translation
Polyester 1.95:
The widget set it's more or less complete, there are still some issues and i didn't tried all the combinations of configuration options, so some of these can still be broken :)
Polyester 1.90:
This is the first public releases of the qt4/kde4 port of polyester, some 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 :P
-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 http://launchpad.net/polyester
Polyester 1.0.2:
-corrected a bug in the configuration dialog (centered tabbars)
Polyester 1.0.1:
mostly a bugfix release
-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
Polyester 1.0:
This will be more or less the final version for Qt3/KDE3, apart some fixes for the garzillions of terrible bugs I'm sure that are still there :)
widget:
-With colored scrollbars option turned off, the scrollbar handle has colored extremities on mouse over (similar to the Ubuntu theme)
-In the configuration dialog "Menus and toolbars" was misleading, now it's "Advanced"
-nice circles instead of asterisks in password lineedits. Idea from Daniel Molkentin http://daniel.molkentin.de/blog/index.php?/archives/59-Password-shadowing-Pimp-My-Plastique.html (will probably be the default in KDE 3.6 btw)
-default button highlight when animations are disabled
-alphablending (yes, fake of course:)) at the corners of the popup menus
-corrected a bug in the sliders aspect
deco:
-titlebar buttons icons have a cleaner aspect
Polyester 1.0_rc1:
widget:
-less (and bigger) dots on QSplitters
-button like menuitems works with transparent menus
-menu stripe works with transparent menus
-entirely redesigned the configuration dialog (should be more usable)
-a lot of code cleanups in the configuration code
-light gradient in the progressbar blank area
-corrected an ugly rendering bug in the QGridView headers
-corrected a rendering bug in the slider with reverse layout
-minor cosmetic changes to the following widgets:
-scrollbars
-sliders
-default buttons contour
-spinboxes
-inactive tabs
-better mouse over highlight with checkboxes and radiobuttons
-border of buttons and other 3d widgets
deco:
-option to make rectangular titlebar buttons (at the moment is the default)
-antialiased titlebar buttons border
-redesigned the configuration dialog to be similar to the style configuration
-added svg sources of the titlebar buttons icons so it's easier to make modifications
-some code cleanups
-drawing of titlebar buttons follows the global contrast settings
Polyester 1.0_beta2:
-Now Gentoo ebuild should work
widget:
-Nicer animation on buttons when the mouse cursor leaves them
-Shadowed text of buttons and menubar configurable separately
-Fixed a bug in the rendering of scrollbar handles
-Don't render dots on scrollbar handle when the handle is too little
-Optimization: lot useless loops in the animation code (i.e. deactivating the QTimer when is not needed :))
deco:
-More Fitts' law friendly: titlebar buttons works also when the mouse cursor is at the top edge of the screen
-No longer draws the round border if the window is maximized
-Uses 16x16 icons in titlebar where available instead of scaling down bigger icons
11 years ago
2.0
-some fixes in build files, links less stuff
-fixed icons on tabbars
-fixed a bug in kcalc
2.0 beta2
-built with cmake is a kstyle, built with qmake is a plain qt style
-some fixes here and there
-corrected a crash with qt webkit
-corrected a graphical glitch with textboxes in Plasma
Polyester 1.0.5:
-compiles with gcc 4.3
Polyester 1.0.4:
-Corrected some visual glitches in ksnapshot
Polyester 2.0 Beta1:
-some graphics fixes
-some build system fixes
-translations should be ported
Polyester 1.0.3:
-Polish translation by Tomek Argasiński
-Italian translation
Polyester 1.95:
The widget set it's more or less complete, there are still some issues and i didn't tried all the combinations of configuration options, so some of these can still be broken :)
Polyester 1.90:
This is the first public releases of the qt4/kde4 port of polyester, some 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 :P
-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 http://launchpad.net/polyester
Polyester 1.0.2:
-corrected a bug in the configuration dialog (centered tabbars)
Polyester 1.0.1:
mostly a bugfix release
-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
Polyester 1.0:
This will be more or less the final version for Qt3/KDE3, apart some fixes for the garzillions of terrible bugs I'm sure that are still there :)
widget:
-With colored scrollbars option turned off, the scrollbar handle has colored extremities on mouse over (similar to the Ubuntu theme)
-In the configuration dialog "Menus and toolbars" was misleading, now it's "Advanced"
-nice circles instead of asterisks in password lineedits. Idea from Daniel Molkentin http://daniel.molkentin.de/blog/index.php?/archives/59-Password-shadowing-Pimp-My-Plastique.html (will probably be the default in KDE 3.6 btw)
-default button highlight when animations are disabled
-alphablending (yes, fake of course:)) at the corners of the popup menus
-corrected a bug in the sliders aspect
deco:
-titlebar buttons icons have a cleaner aspect
Polyester 1.0_rc1:
widget:
-less (and bigger) dots on QSplitters
-button like menuitems works with transparent menus
-menu stripe works with transparent menus
-entirely redesigned the configuration dialog (should be more usable)
-a lot of code cleanups in the configuration code
-light gradient in the progressbar blank area
-corrected an ugly rendering bug in the QGridView headers
-corrected a rendering bug in the slider with reverse layout
-minor cosmetic changes to the following widgets:
-scrollbars
-sliders
-default buttons contour
-spinboxes
-inactive tabs
-better mouse over highlight with checkboxes and radiobuttons
-border of buttons and other 3d widgets
deco:
-option to make rectangular titlebar buttons (at the moment is the default)
-antialiased titlebar buttons border
-redesigned the configuration dialog to be similar to the style configuration
-added svg sources of the titlebar buttons icons so it's easier to make modifications
-some code cleanups
-drawing of titlebar buttons follows the global contrast settings
Polyester 1.0_beta2:
-Now Gentoo ebuild should work
widget:
-Nicer animation on buttons when the mouse cursor leaves them
-Shadowed text of buttons and menubar configurable separately
-Fixed a bug in the rendering of scrollbar handles
-Don't render dots on scrollbar handle when the handle is too little
-Optimization: lot useless loops in the animation code (i.e. deactivating the QTimer when is not needed :))
deco:
-More Fitts' law friendly: titlebar buttons works also when the mouse cursor is at the top edge of the screen
-No longer draws the round border if the window is maximized
-Uses 16x16 icons in titlebar where available instead of scaling down bigger icons
kamesh
8 years ago
Hi Martin,
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43563
When polyster style is enabled then Libreoffice crashes. I have filed a bug in Libreoffice and they have told me that the bug lies with Polyster style. The following is the comment by one of the developers there.
Lubos Lunak 2012-01-16 08:55:37 PST
The bug is in the style. Function PolyesterStyle::drawComplexControl()
dereferences the widget pointer argument in the CC_ToolButton case even though
Qt documentation says the argument is optional and can therefore be NULL.
You'll need to report to the style developers.
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anderslund
10 years ago
Krita also crashes using polyester, but in kde apps the style can be set as an argument (--style <style>). That is not possible with OOo, which i unfortunately needs to run.
According to krita devs, polyester can not handle their costum spinbox. I do not know what the problem is with OOo, except it is affecting the main application window of any OOo app i tried starting.
I hope this can be fixed, as polyester is my all time favorite!
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H00K
10 years ago
at least in 2.0 there is a problem with coloured text in tabs — like e.g. Konversation uses.
This is the biggest complaint I have about this, otherwise great, style.
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madsoft
10 years ago
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panshizhu
11 years ago
I downloaded the polyester 2.0 for kde4 and found no kwin decorations of polyester.
Please, I hate the Oxygen kwin deco and like the polyester best. bring the polyester kwin decoration back to KDE4.
Thanks for all.
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mart
11 years ago
and that's the hard part :p
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xep
11 years ago
why font in tabbars and menubars so bold? button margins assimetric...and many other (
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mngrif
11 years ago
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yaoziyuan
11 years ago
i want to have polyester kwin for kde4 as an alternative when i ever find Crystal kwin boring. currently i can only get the polyester widget style from compiling the source code, but not the kwin for kde4. why?
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usrkl
12 years ago
Do you know if can you will ready it for KDE 4.2?
Thank you. :-)
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anderslund
12 years ago
This is with the kde4 beta version.
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AMO88
12 years ago
This theme is definitely unmatched, and I'm definitely going to use it once I finally switch to KDE4! (4.2 probably)
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wahoospa
12 years ago
Love everything about Polyester.
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mart
12 years ago
the kde3 version is an old theme i drew a looong time ago (only kde3):
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Glaze?content=23966
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klez-hack
12 years ago
I could lend a hand?
Goodbye,
klez-Hack.
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theZoid
12 years ago
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knowheretorun
12 years ago
* ability to customize menubar emphasis text color
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knowheretorun
12 years ago
http://i25.tinypic.com/rvljs4.png
(menubar emphasis color is set to plain white)
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kotyz
12 years ago
polyester.cc: In member function 'virtual void polyester::polyesterButton::drawButton(QPainter*)':
polyester.cc:480: error: 'abs' was not declared in this scope
polyester.cc:486: error: 'abs' was not declared in this scope
polyester.cc:501: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:502: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:503: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:504: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:513: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:514: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:515: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:516: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:520: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:521: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:522: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:523: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:527: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:528: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:529: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:530: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:534: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:535: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:536: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:537: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:542: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:546: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc: At global scope:
polyester.cc:1421: warning: unused parameter 'e'
make[3]: *** [polyester.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4/client'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4/client'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Any ideas what's wrong?
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kotyz
12 years ago
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deadbabylon
12 years ago
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mart
12 years ago
but that package is the new one
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bandreabis
12 years ago
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deadbabylon
13 years ago
$ cmake .
-- Found Qt-Version 4.3.3
CMake Error: Qt4 qdbusxml2cpp was not found. Make sure it has been built and installed by Qt
-- Configuring done
Fedora 8/Rawhide
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protoman
12 years ago
Thanks for the tip, removing the required qt4 line, compiles fine.
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