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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WinterWolf
17 years ago

What I like about Plastik the most is it's mouse over highlighting, for example when I'm near a checkbox it immidieately highlights the checkbox, making it obvious for me that when I click with my mouse it willa ctivate or dectivate the checkbox.

This style also stays out of my way, is attractive and more usable than others.

Maui15
17 years ago

I have the wonderful style but i have a \n old version of it.. i want the newest one. Do i just re-install it like i did for the 1st time or is there somthing spacific i have to do? ( RH 9 )

ceebx
17 years ago

If you still have the source directory of the old one, it's generally the best to do a "make uninstall" first. If not, it's not that bad here as the new one just overwrites the old files anyway (of course only if you have choosen the same prefix). ;)
Then just restart applications to make them use the new style...

svanati
17 years ago

This is a great theme, but I am new to this and I need some help on how to install it on redhat linux 9, or is there a RPM version for redhat linux 9. The install file said to use your kde directory as the configure prefix but I am not sure where it is located. This is a base install. Thanks for all the help. Keep up the good work!

gg3po
17 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's located at '$HOME/.kde/'

beatnik
17 years ago

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!

can someone help me figure out why i can't compile any of the themes from this site? i'm a complete linux newb; i decided from reading to go with Mandrake 9.1 until i learned a little bit more. please help me figure out why it's not letting me run them. also, does anyone have links for good tutorials for compiling sources? ... thanks

ceebx
17 years ago

[can someone help me figure out why i can't compile any of the themes from this site? i'm a complete linux newb;]
You have to install Qt and KDE development ("qt-dev" and "kde-dev" I suppose) packages, they should be in mandrakes package manager.

beatnik
17 years ago

i can't find the files that you listed. i have no idea how i would put these together, because i keep getting that error. can someone shed some light on this error?

jone1941
17 years ago

First off, fantastic job, this is my new default theme. I have one complaint, this seems to be common to a few different themes that I have installed, the KMenu is not resized to the correct width for the font that I have chosen. In the screenshots linked below you can see the dividers do not even reach the width of the menu.

Screenshot (plastik):
http://banfield.plumgroup.com/~mjones/plastik.png

Screenshot (.Net):
http://banfield.plumgroup.com/~mjones/dotnet.png

I'm not sure what is causing this, but I would love to see it fixed as it is my only complaint.

Thanks and great job!

tetabiate
17 years ago

This is one of the best themes I ever
saw. Could it be possible to control
the color of widget borders? In my
opinion, for instance, the color of button
borders is very dim. I don't know if it
is related to the theme itself or to
the application but the size of kcalc's
buttons is very small compared to the
Configure or Help buttons. This does not
happens with other themes. Could it also
be possible to change the appearance of
toolbar separators to something like
that of the alloy theme?

bero
17 years ago

hi there, i'm running Redhat 9.0 with
KDE 3.1 and when i want to install the theme i'm getting some errors..
when configure is done (whitout an error)
and try make i get this error

stik_config_la_closure.lo -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib -L/usr/lib -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -R /usr/lib -R /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib -R /usr/X11R6/lib -module config.lo configdialog.lo -lkdeui
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lart_lgpl_2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

anyone have a sugestion? or a answer for me?
i realy want this theme! it ROCKS! =)

wjarosz
17 years ago

According to the error you are missing the art_lgpl library. Try getting the libart_lgpl and libart_lgpl-devel packages.

bero
17 years ago

oke i installed the RPM's
and ./configure works fine
and make and make install,
but when i want to install a new theme
to KDE, it sas there is no .theme or .themerc file :S

HELP!!

Duff
17 years ago

I love this theme man, so clean. How did you get the taskbar like that, and also what icons are you using? .

K

ceebx
17 years ago

For the screenshot I've used KDE from CVS where the kicker got some improvements...
The iconset I'm using is called "Nuvola", you can find it here on kde-look.

Duff
17 years ago

Sorry im a n00b, what do you mean KDE CVS. Just wanna know how u made taskbar so smooth and without any dragbars etc , sort of like "locked" xp type (sorry that wasnt an insult!!!)

ceebx
17 years ago

Hi Duff,

Ok, Sorry. ;)
KDE CVS is the development version of KDE which will be released as KDE 3.2 in a few weeks.
There are some changes which make the panel look a bit better but you will probably have to wait until KDE 3.2 is out.

wjarosz
17 years ago

I think that a new bug may have been introduced with the new tab code. If you have too many tabs to fit on the screen, then konq will add a little left and right arrow at the top right. Normally, if you can see all the left-most tabs the left arrow will be disabled, and if you can see all the right-most tabs, the right arrow is grayed out. This is no longer the case, the arrows are always enabled.

There is another small annoyance I have, though it seems to be the case with alot of styles, so I'm not sure if it is possible to fix. Since the buttons and lineedits have rounded corners, there is a light-grey pixel at the of the four corners. These become very apparent when viewing an html page with a dark background. Would it be possible to make these 4 corners transparent instead of a fixed light color?

cbiffle
17 years ago

The light pixels on the corner of the widgets isn't actually the fault of the style -- it's a bug in KHTML.

KHTML assumes the text widget to be rectangular and gives it an unfilled box to draw in, rather than letting it draw over the page background.

The style does, in fact, leave the corners as transparent as is possible in KStyle.

If you want to see an even worse example, look at a file upload box.

Mark182
17 years ago

I think this theme is awesome! Look how I used it like default theme - http://www.hot.ee/blinker/snapshot4.png

espenp
17 years ago

This should become the new default style for KDE. Kermamik is cool, but not as smooth as this style! I really love it!

I'm not yet comfortable with the the window decoration though (still using keramik). It's a bit XPish.

Mark182
17 years ago

I can't figure out what to do in Control Center -> Look and Feel -> Theme Manager
I don't see any new installed theme. I got no errors during installing Plastik.

Deciare
17 years ago

I think you might be looking for Control Centre -> LookNFeel -> Style.

Mark182
17 years ago

I think I solved it myself. But not sure. I used 2 commands after installation (as libtool warned me):
libtool --finish/usr/local/kde/lib/kde3/plugins/styles
libtool --finish /usr/local/kde/lib/kde3

and then changed in "styles" to plastik and in "windows decorations" to plastik. But nothing in Theme Manager.

jadrian
17 years ago

Very nice indeed :)
Plastik and Alloy are now my favourit ones. Just couple of obeservations.

The left most tab seems kind of weird.
IMO the left side should be aligned to what it connects to. Check out other styles like .Net, B3KDE or even HighColor default.
Both Plastik and Allow seem to do it "wrong".

I find the colouring a little weird when compared to some other styles. Maybe lack of contrast, some things seem faded...

It doesn't feel that light.
Maybe it's my impression though.

Anyway I'm just pointing out some not so good stuff. Overall I love it! :)
Keep up the good work!

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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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