Plastik - Antiques

Plastik

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes

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Description:

A widget style and window decoration for KDE 3.0/3.1 -- this package won't work for KDE 3.2, you can find future versions of Plastik in kdeartwork!
Please see the screenshots for details!

Enjoy! ;-)

Last changelog:

17 years ago

0.3.9
- Some updates from CVS:
- Fixed konqueror "location:" label bug.
- Checkbox tristate support.
- Progressbar busy indicator support.
- Fix annoying edges around buttons/comboboxes in case KHTML provides
the wrong background color. (maybe only relevant for CVS...)
- Draw the text of focused comboboxes using cg.buttonText() instead
of cg.highlightedText().
- Triangular tab support.
- Fix problem with tickmarks above sliders.
- Changed the color sheme highlight colors.
0.3.8
- Finally, this fixes the window decoration loading problems for
Debian Woody users and maybe others as well!
- Minor text color fixes in the widget style.
[If 0.3.7 worked well for you, you don't need to update.]

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herbertistscheisse
17 years ago

copy the old plastik.desktop from verson 0.3.5 there, it is somehow missed in the tarball:P

gravis
17 years ago

New gentoo ebuild for plastik 0.3.7 :
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=18003&action=view

korsam
17 years ago

This is exactly what I've been looking for. A scrollbar that I can actually see! It installed fine on Mandrake 9.1. Thank you very much!

yglodt
17 years ago

Are there debian unstable packages
available for kde3.1.x ?

Thucydides
17 years ago

Hi,

0.3.5 fixes the missing color scheme problem - thanks. Also, would it be possible to return to the dotted scroll bars, but include in the package the new design (or vice versa), so people can patch and choose the one they want?

Also, I noticed an issue in Kplayer. The seek bar, which appears normally with Keramik or other styles, doesn't show up properly with Plastik. Strange.

mononoke
17 years ago

i also thought, the dots on the scrollbars are more nice..
but, now i think, both are nice.. i would prefer an option in the style-settings dialog, to choose the one people like..

thanx

p.s. anybody knows if somewhere exists a SuSE8.2 RPM already ? thanks

bakirov
17 years ago

I'm agree. Both dots and lines are cute and smooth - yes, it'd better to have an option, if possible, which one to use: dots or lines :)

wurz25
17 years ago

I think an implementation like Beos Tilelbars (or Beos Beta) would be nice.
greetings
nico

donuthole
17 years ago

this looks so beautiful - i want to try it! i can use the style just fine, but the window decoration doesn't seem to work.

i compiled and installed it (with no errours reported), but everytime i select Plastik - it just looks like Keramik.

i'm running RH7.3 with the kde-redhat packages (3.1.3a up to date). any one have any ideas? knifty works well for me now, but plastik looks better - and i wanna try it! :)

cheers!

naPo
17 years ago

i have the same problem...

suse 8.0, kde 3.1.2, rpms von kde.org!!

all other windecs work just fine...

ceebx
17 years ago

Maybe someone other has any idea but I can't help you with this, sorry.

Thucydides
17 years ago

Hi ceebx,

Thanks for your work on Plastik! But running KDE 3.1.3 I've noticed that when I installed plastik 0.3.4 there is no longer a color scheme available to choose in the Control Center... reverting to 0.3.3 brings it back.

Otherwise, I have to say I really liked the old style "dot" scrollbars. I thought they were one of Plastik's nicest touches... oh well...

The few other problems I've noticed with Plastik are:
1) With konsole, if I place the multiple-session toolbar at the bottom, the buttons seem to hang too low and look like they get cut off (I can provide a screenshot if you want).
2) One nice thing about Keramik is that the Kmenu is two shades blended together, giving a nice transition effect. Can this be done for Plastik as well, without compromising the rest of the color scheme?

Otherwise, please add me to the "make Plastik the KDE default" petition.

Thucydides

bakirov
17 years ago

Hi Sandro!

First of all, thank you for this style - it's the best style for KDE, IMO.

I just wanted to disagree :) with your last decision to replace dots on the scrollbar slider handle with simple lines - now, IMHO, scrollbar slider handle lost its cuteness, it has before; the new lines do strike sharply my eyes - it feels like a squizzed spring.

Yes, it's cleaner now, but, IMO, with these lines Plastik loses its integrity, its cuteness: I've just installed new style. With dots previous Plastik style was a one whole style - no parts apart - with every part well suited to each other. And now, these lines are foreign for me :) or :( - :) Is it possible to remain previous dotes - they are stylish, really :)

bakirov
17 years ago

OK, one more note on "dots" vs "lines":

dots on scrollbar fit dots on toolbar's edge, taskbar applet separators.

ceebx
17 years ago

Thanks for you feedback.

I wanted to get rid of the dots because they look somehow ugly on the scroll bar gradient, especially with a button color other than gray and actually I like the lines. ;)

Well, in case there are others who prefer dots to the lines I will revert to them and maybe fine tune them a bit... :)

Maui15
17 years ago

hey i love the new look but i get this error: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1 (20021021)) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!
mauster ~/Desktop/plastik-0.3.4$ checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1 (20021021)) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Help please i love your work

ceebx
17 years ago

Which distro are you using? Any problems compiling other kde styles/apps?

bij
17 years ago

Thank's for still posting this here :) Besides loving this thing I was wondering if this will be default in kde 3.2?

ceebx
17 years ago

Thanks but - No, it won't be the KDE 3.2 default.

I think it's a bad idea to change KDEs default style for every minor release. Not that advanced people who maybe don't even know that there is a possibility to change the style and are used to Keramik would find it annoying to accustom to the new style; whereas people who don't like the look of Keramik and know what they want can just switch to another style...
Secondly, Plastik is just not as technical "perfect" as Keramik; E.g. there are some minor issues like pixel errors in KDE 3.2 konqueror tab bars I've not been able to fix so far. Some might not even notice them but IMO it *could* be bad for KDEs fame or what and I don't want to take the responsibility for that. :)

yurkjes
17 years ago

The 'thumb' handles on scroll bars are too subtle with the color scheme (default) from kdeartwork CVS.

My suggestion would be to make them much more apparent/darker/deeper/whatever :).

Currently I can hardly see them but my eyes and brain know they're supposed to be there. Then what happens is that I kind of notice they're there (every so slightly) and have to refocus my eyes on them because they're really distracted by this point. Messes with my brain :)

Thank you for my new default style and deco!

ceebx
17 years ago

Yes, the scrollbar deco is one thing I don't like very much too. I will try to improve them but actually I don't have an idea of how at the moment. :)

ThEOnE
17 years ago

Hi i'm very interested in make my own themes and styles ... if any could help me to begin with this with any information, documentation ... etc ...

Thanks.

ceebx
17 years ago

Hope that helps: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7559&xexpand=33593#c33593

Mark182
17 years ago

I used it to install correctly:
./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share --libdir=/usr/lib

Maybe, it will work in Mandrake

WinterWolf
17 years ago

- highlight column headers like buttons.

Example: I open "Find FIles" now my mouse passes over the name column header, it should have two horizontal stripes top and bottom like buttons.

- highlight slider controls when mouse passes over them. The little thing that you move on a slider should also be highlighted when the mouse passes over a slider area

- have some way to differntiate between tolbar rows. Maybe a bel like in Keramik, but hopefully not as strong of a bevel.

- scrollbar should also be highlighted like buttons, with two vertical stripes

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17 years ago

0.3.9
- Some updates from CVS:
- Fixed konqueror "location:" label bug.
- Checkbox tristate support.
- Progressbar busy indicator support.
- Fix annoying edges around buttons/comboboxes in case KHTML provides
the wrong background color. (maybe only relevant for CVS...)
- Draw the text of focused comboboxes using cg.buttonText() instead
of cg.highlightedText().
- Triangular tab support.
- Fix problem with tickmarks above sliders.
- Changed the color sheme highlight colors.
0.3.8
- Finally, this fixes the window decoration loading problems for
Debian Woody users and maybe others as well!
- Minor text color fixes in the widget style.
[If 0.3.7 worked well for you, you don't need to update.]

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