
Floating Extenders
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
Ever wanted your extenders to be floating, like your other dialogs?
Atleast I did, and I found the lack of configuration, or even support for tuning this from the themes, very disturbing.
So I checkout the latest KDE4.2.1 branch plasma libraries and recompiled them to give myself floating extenders!
Hope you enjoy it!
PS. Yes, I know this is a very clumsy way to package it... I should create a patch or something, but I am not really that much into those things.
OBSERVE! Only compile and install this on KDE 4.2.1.
INSTALLATION
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
su
make install
Replace /usr with your KDE4 prefix.
Enjoy.
JARDA001
9 years ago
btw can you tell me what plasma theme you use? its very nice ;)
thanks
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Montblanc
11 years ago
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Znurre
11 years ago
I will post my changes soon, so you can apply them to other versions as well.
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JMB
11 years ago
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BurkeOne
11 years ago
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JMB
11 years ago
Your version of plasma built and installed without any hiccups and worked immediately after logout/login.
Is there any chance that this change will work its way into trunk? According to the discussion at http://forum.kde.org/panel-popup-border-t-37139.html I got the impression that trunk is moving in the opposite direction.
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mck182
11 years ago
Hey and what makes your knotify popups transparent? Is it a theme or it's made by compositing being turned on?
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JMB
11 years ago
The default behaviour is to remove the border closest to the panel to give the impression that the popup extends from that panel. That's great in theory but it sometimes looks a bit weird if you use custom-width and/or hiding panels.
Umm, that *is* what the patch is supposed to do, right, Znurre?
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Znurre
11 years ago
When I use any other theme than Aya, extenders looks out of place in my opinion... Oxygen is one of the worst examples, sadly, since the rest of KDE 4 is so well polished.
PS. The theme on the screenshots is new-theme by TheRob with aya Tasks and 100% transparent systemtray controls.
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