Ivan Čukić

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Plasma themes and Lancelot

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development: Plasma section, on 22 November 2008

Since I have received so many complaints because “Lancelot doesn’t follow/obey/… Plasma theme”, and I am tired of pointing the people to the FAQ, I decided to make the necessary files needed by Lancelot for all Plasma themes that ship with plasma-addons package.

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Lancelot y los temas de plasma | KDE Blog
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Ivan Čukić
@maninalift The default (Oxygen) theme is not shown in the screenshots. It is the same as it always was :)
@jrick No. They are not hard-coded (almost nothing in L is). I've just created files for those themes that L needs.
One note though - those files are shipped with L, and not with the themes, just like with the default one. (there is no point for someone who doesn't want to install L to have its theme files)
@frustphil You've got your answer. As far as the default menu icon goes, it exists, but nobody uses it really :) - the menus most of the time use the KDE logo.
Mark Yes, I'm a votary of PNG too, but I wanted to make the image as lightweight as I could. (I usually, when using jpeg, go for > 90% quality, and this time I lowered it to 50%).
@student Well, as you saw, the fact that the other people /could/ create the themes for L (it was possible since L's inception) had no effect, so I had to do it :)
Mike
Oh your work is gorgeous!! :D This is what the KDE menu should have been! Keep up the great work please!
16777216
Sorry,.. But, thanks for this awesomeness.
solardeity
Cool & nice.. :-)
tuxvotec
Great! I waiting for this.
maninalift
If the Oxygen theme the same as the old style, I really liked the simplicity of the categories menu (flat black, with flat white for highlighting)?
You just ca't win. ;)
Not that I'm going to complain, it's a lovely app to use with or without highlights.
Unfortunately the KDE-unstable (trunk) version has disappeared from the SUSE servers for a while now. Just looking forward to its return.
maninalift
Sorry "If" --> "Is"
Dread Knight
\m/
jrick
Wow, really nice!
Now, are these extra themes hard coded into Lancelot, or did you add the necessary files into these Plasma themes for Lancelot to use them?
frustphil
hey, can the holy grail icon be replaced with other icons? it's too small and doesn't stand out from other icons. maybe you could add something like circular(whatever) button on which the holy grail rests? i kinda thinking 'similar' to the vista one? seriously, why KDE doesn't make the menu icon, in all aspects, distinct to other icons? *wishing* *wishing*
jrick
@frustphil
You can replace the grail in your taskbar with another icon, but AFAIK you can't change it in the lower right hand corner of the menu.
Mark Kretschmann
Nice screenshot, Ivan.
But note: Sometimes JPEG just isn't the right tool for the job (compression artifacts). PNG would have been better here.
Fenix-TX
Uff!!! I love Lancelot and those themes looks very very very beautiful!!!
student
smart move.
Now other people can skin it for you, and therefor you do not need to listen to all the people complaining about colors.
Thanks for a great app, with constant updates..

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