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Re: New features in KDE 3
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @10:40
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I think kicker should use some xml skin system like noatun, sonique or winamp3.
This would simply rock! Imagine that you could choose a background for kicker (a png with any format) or even some images for the background, then each item on kicker could be a png in any format...
It's hard to explain it well.
Later I'll post some screenshots and some xml to show what I mean. |
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Re: New features in KDE 3
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @11:08
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Ok, here's the idea:
http://www.protoman.f2s.com/pic01.png (144k, png)
Now let me explain how this theme would be build (I'll supose the background is only one image called blue.png) - this is only a idea, so I'll kick values for posx and posy (position x and position y) for the items. So here's the xml:
<kickertheme>
<kmenu>
<posx>20</posx><posy>112</posy>
<icon>kmenu.png</icon>
</kmenu>
<openapps>
<posx>62</posx><posy>96</posy>
<cols>2</cols><rows>4</rows>
</openapps>
and so goes on for dock, clock, other applets, etc.....
this can be more generic, as instead of a tag for each applet, a generic <applet> tag that receives a applet name.
</kickertheme>
Anyway, this is my idea, what do you think?
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Re: New features in KDE 3
by not me on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @14:41
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I think it is already possible. Kicker can have a backround image already. Kicker's buttons can have "backround tiles" that show up behind the icons. You can change Kicker's icons with an icon theme, and you can change the appearence of the applet handles, buttons, etc. with a regular theme. You wouldn't want to specify the positions of buttons and applets in the theme itself, that is for the user to decide. The only thing that is missing is the XML to tie it together. Currently KDE's themeing capabilities are somewhat widely distributed in different places. You're welcome to invent an XML theme parser for KDE, since no one else has shown a desire to do so (although unified theme support is an often-requested feature).
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Re: New features in KDE 3
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @15:01
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Yes, the only think that seems to be missing is enabling other formats of kicker other than a rectangle.
This could even be extended to it's applets. Imagine how cool a circle clock or elipsed buttons for open apps.
With this and hability to use kicker as any format, things should be very easy, but I really would like to extend it more to something like Object Desktop.
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Re: New features in KDE 3
by Spark on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @15:38
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I like your ideas.
It would be really need to be able to skin kicker like say... k-jofol. :)
Someone could do a sience fiction kicker, etc...
Look at Athene (www.rocklyte.com) to know what I'm talking about (you can download and install it, it's pretty easy and a nice demo of a fully skinnable desktop! Very impressive).
Of course that's very hard to do, cause you have to provide places for applets, the menu entry's, etc. You can't hardcode them, cause the user could decide to load an unknown applet or something like that.
I don't expect this very soon, but would probably be a nice idea for KDE 4.0 ;)
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