Ivan Čukić

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Glow with the power of Awesome

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development section, on 9 December 2012

Marco announced a new version (rework) of the Air theme for Plasma.

That reminded me of the fact I forgot to blog about the new version of Slim Glow that will be in 4.10.

The most noticeable change is that the system tray icons, share-like-connect icons, and others are now based on the awesome Font Awesome by Dave Gandy (http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome)

The second is that it is now even slimmer. The desktop widgets have smaller border, especially those like the folder view.

The theme is now again a regular citizen of kde-look.org. Since the non-default themes were moved from standard installations into kdegraphics module, I started receiving requests to make the theme available through the Get Hot New Stuff since rarely anyone wants to install ~~kdegraphics~~ kdeartwork. I understood the desire for this, so I complied.

Comments:

Eric Donkersloot
Hi Ivan,
Any idea when the next version of Slim Glow will be released?
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-80122" rel="nofollow">Eric Donkersloot</a>: Yes, it somehow got passed me - probably since the icon gets hidden when the battery is full.
@<a href="#comment-80194" rel="nofollow">šumski</a>: Can you provide me with a screen-shot?
šumski
Sure (sorry for a slow reply) Notifications as they appear on screen: http://i.imgur.com/hvnSgxS.png Notification list: http://i.imgur.com/yZLHj8o.png 2nd one is problematic. Not a big deal, just a *little bit* strange IMHO;-)
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-82211" rel="nofollow">šumski</a>: Agreed, will fix it in the next iteration, along with the battery plasmoid. Thanks!
Eric Donkersloot
Hi, somehow the "full battery" icon does not seem to have been updated, please see this link: http://ompldr.org/iaDg5aw
Is this a bug?
By the way, this is the best KDE plasma theme I know of. Great work.
Markus S.
The "Awesome" KMix icon is hardly awesome. It looks dated.
Markus S.
@<a href="#comment-51260" rel="nofollow">tadeas</a>: It works at least with 4.9.
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-51260" rel="nofollow">tadeas</a>: You should try it out. I don't think I've used any fancy new features, but I might be wrong.
@<a href="#comment-51274" rel="nofollow">Markus S.</a>: I wouldn't call it 'dated' but the air icon does look more slick. On the other hand, air icon (IMO) is anything but obvious. Especially when you also have almost the same icon for the wireless network.
csslayer
Keep up good work!
BTW Is it kdeartwork or kdegraphics..?
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-51064" rel="nofollow">csslayer</a>: kdeartwork :)
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-51245" rel="nofollow">Jan</a>: I have never used a dark colour scheme, but have always been using a dark plasma theme.
For me, it is better that way because the desktop then doesn't visually draw attention to itself - it sits in the background - where it should be.
tadeas
Does this work in KDE 4.8?
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-51195" rel="nofollow">Albert</a>: It is understandable - they might want only one plasma theme, and it would potentially pull in other themes, screensavers etc.
curator
@<a href="#comment-51195" rel="nofollow">Albert</a>: And look at the package size: 140MB. I had a slow DSL connection for a long time, providing only ~48kb/s - 50 minutes of downloading just for ONE THEME? No, thx ;)
Albert
You mean people want new artwork but don't want to install the package that provides such new artwork?¿
I'm shocked how weird people is, really :-/
Jan
Does look interesting from the screenshots. Now if only there were a good dark color theme. All the ones I've tested so far either go way too far with the darkness or have bad contrast that makes them hard to use with most applications.
šumski
New panel background and tasks look amazing :-)
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-51317" rel="nofollow">šumski</a>: Glad you like it. I got bored with glassy stuff :)
hacosta
Do i need to install the awesome icons separately?
If so, where can i get them from?
(running 4.9.90)
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-51367" rel="nofollow">hacosta</a>: No need. Just install the theme and you're there.
mutlu
Now even beautifuller! ;P
Bob
Hi, thanks for Slim Glow. It's the most sane looking plasma theme their is.
I do notice a slight usability issue though! The notification widget does not really stay "lit up" if there are existing notifications. Thus, if I am away from my computer when a notification occurs, I have no way to know without clicking on it to display them. This is kind of annoying, as I rely quote heavily on that notification widget.
It does kind of change color from a dark gray to a lighter gray, but it's hard to distinguish.
Is it possible to make it maybe blue or even a lighter shade of gray if it has notifications? As long as it's possible to distinguish between it having notifications and it being empty. If you catch my drift?
Thanks
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-60055" rel="nofollow">Bob</a>: Didn't think of that mainly because the notification applet (at least for me) is not even shown if there are no notifications).
But I guess you're right - will probably change it soonish.
David
Which are the (non-icon) fonts in use in the desktop screenshots, and the one used for writing "Slim Glow" in the first picture? They look awesome Thanks!
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-51561" rel="nofollow">David</a>: It is the oxygen font - see <a href="https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/artwork/oxygen-fonts" rel="nofollow">kde:oxygen-fonts</a>
David
@<a href="#comment-51562" rel="nofollow">Ivan Čukić</a>: thank you! Now my desktop looks nicer. :)
Links 12/12/2012: Linux 3.7 is Out, OpenMandriva | Techrights
[...] Glow with the power of Awesome That reminded me of the fact I forgot to blog about the new version of Slim Glow that will be in 4.10. [...]
šumski
You'll need listitem element for the new 4.10 notifications (when pulled down), without it, it fallbacks to Air, so that looks funky with darker themes :-)
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-60055" rel="nofollow">Bob</a>: Updated on kde-look.org
Slim Glow versione 5.0 disponibile per KDE
[...] KDE e fu sviluppato già a partire dal rilascio delle prime beta di KDE 4.0. Lo sviluppatore Ivan Čukić ha rilasciato nei giorni scorsi una nuova versione di questo tema, la 5.0. Questa nuova versione [...]

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