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Easy Decoration and Widget Style creation
by Emil Sedgh on Wednesday 07/Mar/2007, @23:50

Hi all
I think KDE needs more and more Widget Style and WinDecos, but currently creating them is hard, needs code and compiling and...
I was thinking that its a dream that we make Widget Style/WinDecos by easy XML files and SVG artwork.is that really possible?
I know Dekorator is there, but currently:
--Everybody who wants to use Dekorator, needs to install it (its not default)
--Installing themes for it is not easy (yes, i know thats just download and copy, i mean it should use KHotNewStuff)
--Selecting themes in different Theme Engines makes some problems, there just be one list, windecos list, currently you have to choose Engine and select your theme in the Engines list.

KHotNewStuff is really needed for Windeco selection, icon part and Style widgets part.

PS:why didnt you talk about the Oxygen Sound Theme??

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Re: Easy Decoration and Widget Style creation
by superstoned on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @01:58

There are some plans in this area, so it might be possible in KDE 4. But nobody is really working on this yet, as far as I know. Currently, themes are C++ code, apparently because of performance reasons...

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Re: Easy Decoration and Widget Style creation
by logixoul on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @04:02

At one point there was work on a SVG-based widgetstyle engine for KDE 4, CoKoon. Then the author lost interest I think.
There is also Detente for pixmap-based widgetstyles in KDE 3.

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Re: Easy Decoration and Widget Style creation
by blacksheep on Saturday 10/Mar/2007, @19:56

Qt 4 has introduced the possibility to do styles using CSS some syntax. There was even an article about that at this site. Dunno how that works for doing gradients, and other drawing effects...

Anyway, I have just started a project for a KDE style that uses GTK+ for the rendering (the opposite of gtk-qt-engine) [1]. Saying this cause I have done this QSimpleStyle layer which simplifies doing a C++ style using QStyle. It handles the placement of widgets parts, their sizes and etc, as well as highlighting, for you. You just need to paint primitives (like the step button of a scroll bar) and set the size of some attributes (stuff like how much pixels the label of a button should be displaced when pressed).

I will be doing a simple Qt style with it as an example... Anyway, if someone is interested, drop me an email.

[1] http://gtk4qt.sourceforge.net/

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Re: Easy Decoration and Widget Style creation
by ed on Tuesday 13/Nov/2007, @09:33

I was wondering if theres a web site that has widget styles to download in rpm form. i use FC7 and im kinda sick of kemerik style. its one of the style i use. i love it but i want to have a veriety to choose from. that give a 3d look to buttons and all that great stuff. thanks for a reply. i am also using the crystal theme. i also have dekorator, and its not as hard to install themeś as you think.

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