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Re: New features in KDE 3
by Joeri Sebrechts on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @10:23

They're called themes.

I wouldn't like KDE to look like XP's Luna, or MacOS's Aqua. It needs to at least be original in some way. And might I use this chance to be on-topic to say that I think it's childish how MS made a badly-done copy of the Aqua gui? You should check out XP's gui before they released Luna, and after. Completely different styling. It's not at all that surprising that Luna (just the name is a rip-off) showed up a bit after Aqua.

Besides, I don't even like Luna. I think it's ugly (it doesn't have sheens, which are a core element of the liquid effect).

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Re: New features in KDE 3
by surak on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @18:48

But you *can* make KDE look like Luna or Aqua. Well, I don't know about Luna, but Aqua for sure, which is available in several incarnations on kde.themes.org. :)

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Mosfet's Liquid engine
by Michel on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @20:49

... or even better than those slow pixmap-based renderings of Aqua at themes.org, go to mosfet.org and download his Liquid style engine :) Luna-style window decoration coupled with Aqua.

Michel

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Re: Mosfet's Liquid engine
by Spark on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @15:44

I always hated all available KDE styles and themes, but I immidiatly fall in love with Liquid. :)
It does not even compare to every other Aqua or Luna clone I've ever seen. It's so much better! It feels like a "real" and "native" style, not a clone or something.
And it's unbelievable fast.

Here is my desktop:
http://home.wtal.de/borgmann/konqueror.png

Note that the menu on the top is for some weird reason shown BEHIND the menu bar in this shot. Usually it's not so it looks better in reallife. ;)

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Re: Mosfet's Liquid engine
by Sarah Gould on Thursday 13/Sep/2001, @21:04

Is Mosfet's Liquid Engine like a window manager? Is it like Window Maker (or Sawfish, etc), or a copy of KDE with a new look?

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Re: Mosfet's Liquid engine
by Michel on Thursday 13/Sep/2001, @21:47

It's a style engine for KDE, Sarah. That means it changes the appearance of Qt and KDE apps for you - just like you can choose to have your KDE desktop look like Mac, Windows or Unix currently.

Basically it consists of:
1. a set of window decoration for KWin, the KDE window manager
2. a style engine to change the appearance of the widgets (buttons, scrollbar etc) of Qt/KDE apps
3. a colour scheme to switch the colours

Pretty amazing stuff! GNOME won't have easily-switchable colour schemes until GNOME 2 next year.

Regards,

Michel

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