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Widget style + kwin decoration both aimed to be a good balance between eye candy and simplicity
11 years ago
2.0
-some fixes in build files, links less stuff
-fixed icons on tabbars
-fixed a bug in kcalc
2.0 beta2
-built with cmake is a kstyle, built with qmake is a plain qt style
-some fixes here and there
-corrected a crash with qt webkit
-corrected a graphical glitch with textboxes in Plasma
Polyester 1.0.5:
-compiles with gcc 4.3
Polyester 1.0.4:
-Corrected some visual glitches in ksnapshot
Polyester 2.0 Beta1:
-some graphics fixes
-some build system fixes
-translations should be ported
Polyester 1.0.3:
-Polish translation by Tomek Argasiński
-Italian translation
Polyester 1.95:
The widget set it's more or less complete, there are still some issues and i didn't tried all the combinations of configuration options, so some of these can still be broken :)
Polyester 1.90:
This is the first public releases of the qt4/kde4 port of polyester, some important notes:
-First of all it must be considered a very early alpha quality code not intended for everyday use, it could blow up your computer or eat your cat, use at your own risk :P
-as i said is not very stable and probably not all configuration option works
-at the moment there is only the style, i don't know if or when i will port the window decoration
-it can be compiled with cmake (and you will need a kde4 snapshot o do so) typing
cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=whathever you want
make
make install
-or with qmake (you will need only qt4 with devel package, but you won't get the configuration dialog)
in order to use qmake you must go in the style subfolder and type:
qmake qmake.pro
make
make install
-probably i won't release another release tarball for quite some time, but if you're curious there is a bazaar repository at http://launchpad.net/polyester
Polyester 1.0.2:
-corrected a bug in the configuration dialog (centered tabbars)
Polyester 1.0.1:
mostly a bugfix release
-corrected a build problem with automake 2.6+
widget:
-better management of the menu stripe width
-another hack for gtk-qt: the menu stripe is always off (yeah, it's a broken solution but it was managed too bad...)
-when both toolbar separators and menubar emphasis with border are turned on don't draw an extra line under the menubar
deco:
-when the focus policy is set to "focus follows mouse" the bad flickering should be done (need some testing)
-corrected a bug that caused the windows not being completely painted when kcompmgr is activated
Polyester 1.0:
This will be more or less the final version for Qt3/KDE3, apart some fixes for the garzillions of terrible bugs I'm sure that are still there :)
widget:
-With colored scrollbars option turned off, the scrollbar handle has colored extremities on mouse over (similar to the Ubuntu theme)
-In the configuration dialog "Menus and toolbars" was misleading, now it's "Advanced"
-nice circles instead of asterisks in password lineedits. Idea from Daniel Molkentin http://daniel.molkentin.de/blog/index.php?/archives/59-Password-shadowing-Pimp-My-Plastique.html (will probably be the default in KDE 3.6 btw)
-default button highlight when animations are disabled
-alphablending (yes, fake of course:)) at the corners of the popup menus
-corrected a bug in the sliders aspect
deco:
-titlebar buttons icons have a cleaner aspect
Polyester 1.0_rc1:
widget:
-less (and bigger) dots on QSplitters
-button like menuitems works with transparent menus
-menu stripe works with transparent menus
-entirely redesigned the configuration dialog (should be more usable)
-a lot of code cleanups in the configuration code
-light gradient in the progressbar blank area
-corrected an ugly rendering bug in the QGridView headers
-corrected a rendering bug in the slider with reverse layout
-minor cosmetic changes to the following widgets:
-scrollbars
-sliders
-default buttons contour
-spinboxes
-inactive tabs
-better mouse over highlight with checkboxes and radiobuttons
-border of buttons and other 3d widgets
deco:
-option to make rectangular titlebar buttons (at the moment is the default)
-antialiased titlebar buttons border
-redesigned the configuration dialog to be similar to the style configuration
-added svg sources of the titlebar buttons icons so it's easier to make modifications
-some code cleanups
-drawing of titlebar buttons follows the global contrast settings
Polyester 1.0_beta2:
-Now Gentoo ebuild should work
widget:
-Nicer animation on buttons when the mouse cursor leaves them
-Shadowed text of buttons and menubar configurable separately
-Fixed a bug in the rendering of scrollbar handles
-Don't render dots on scrollbar handle when the handle is too little
-Optimization: lot useless loops in the animation code (i.e. deactivating the QTimer when is not needed :))
deco:
-More Fitts' law friendly: titlebar buttons works also when the mouse cursor is at the top edge of the screen
-No longer draws the round border if the window is maximized
-Uses 16x16 icons in titlebar where available instead of scaling down bigger icons
11 years ago
2.0
-some fixes in build files, links less stuff
-fixed icons on tabbars
-fixed a bug in kcalc
2.0 beta2
-built with cmake is a kstyle, built with qmake is a plain qt style
-some fixes here and there
-corrected a crash with qt webkit
-corrected a graphical glitch with textboxes in Plasma
Polyester 1.0.5:
-compiles with gcc 4.3
Polyester 1.0.4:
-Corrected some visual glitches in ksnapshot
Polyester 2.0 Beta1:
-some graphics fixes
-some build system fixes
-translations should be ported
Polyester 1.0.3:
-Polish translation by Tomek Argasiński
-Italian translation
Polyester 1.95:
The widget set it's more or less complete, there are still some issues and i didn't tried all the combinations of configuration options, so some of these can still be broken :)
Polyester 1.90:
This is the first public releases of the qt4/kde4 port of polyester, some important notes:
-First of all it must be considered a very early alpha quality code not intended for everyday use, it could blow up your computer or eat your cat, use at your own risk :P
-as i said is not very stable and probably not all configuration option works
-at the moment there is only the style, i don't know if or when i will port the window decoration
-it can be compiled with cmake (and you will need a kde4 snapshot o do so) typing
cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=whathever you want
make
make install
-or with qmake (you will need only qt4 with devel package, but you won't get the configuration dialog)
in order to use qmake you must go in the style subfolder and type:
qmake qmake.pro
make
make install
-probably i won't release another release tarball for quite some time, but if you're curious there is a bazaar repository at http://launchpad.net/polyester
Polyester 1.0.2:
-corrected a bug in the configuration dialog (centered tabbars)
Polyester 1.0.1:
mostly a bugfix release
-corrected a build problem with automake 2.6+
widget:
-better management of the menu stripe width
-another hack for gtk-qt: the menu stripe is always off (yeah, it's a broken solution but it was managed too bad...)
-when both toolbar separators and menubar emphasis with border are turned on don't draw an extra line under the menubar
deco:
-when the focus policy is set to "focus follows mouse" the bad flickering should be done (need some testing)
-corrected a bug that caused the windows not being completely painted when kcompmgr is activated
Polyester 1.0:
This will be more or less the final version for Qt3/KDE3, apart some fixes for the garzillions of terrible bugs I'm sure that are still there :)
widget:
-With colored scrollbars option turned off, the scrollbar handle has colored extremities on mouse over (similar to the Ubuntu theme)
-In the configuration dialog "Menus and toolbars" was misleading, now it's "Advanced"
-nice circles instead of asterisks in password lineedits. Idea from Daniel Molkentin http://daniel.molkentin.de/blog/index.php?/archives/59-Password-shadowing-Pimp-My-Plastique.html (will probably be the default in KDE 3.6 btw)
-default button highlight when animations are disabled
-alphablending (yes, fake of course:)) at the corners of the popup menus
-corrected a bug in the sliders aspect
deco:
-titlebar buttons icons have a cleaner aspect
Polyester 1.0_rc1:
widget:
-less (and bigger) dots on QSplitters
-button like menuitems works with transparent menus
-menu stripe works with transparent menus
-entirely redesigned the configuration dialog (should be more usable)
-a lot of code cleanups in the configuration code
-light gradient in the progressbar blank area
-corrected an ugly rendering bug in the QGridView headers
-corrected a rendering bug in the slider with reverse layout
-minor cosmetic changes to the following widgets:
-scrollbars
-sliders
-default buttons contour
-spinboxes
-inactive tabs
-better mouse over highlight with checkboxes and radiobuttons
-border of buttons and other 3d widgets
deco:
-option to make rectangular titlebar buttons (at the moment is the default)
-antialiased titlebar buttons border
-redesigned the configuration dialog to be similar to the style configuration
-added svg sources of the titlebar buttons icons so it's easier to make modifications
-some code cleanups
-drawing of titlebar buttons follows the global contrast settings
Polyester 1.0_beta2:
-Now Gentoo ebuild should work
widget:
-Nicer animation on buttons when the mouse cursor leaves them
-Shadowed text of buttons and menubar configurable separately
-Fixed a bug in the rendering of scrollbar handles
-Don't render dots on scrollbar handle when the handle is too little
-Optimization: lot useless loops in the animation code (i.e. deactivating the QTimer when is not needed :))
deco:
-More Fitts' law friendly: titlebar buttons works also when the mouse cursor is at the top edge of the screen
-No longer draws the round border if the window is maximized
-Uses 16x16 icons in titlebar where available instead of scaling down bigger icons
floppy
15 years ago
And please make the menu-highlights as they were in previous versions, the new ones don't look very good with glass-style.
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CARTMAN
15 years ago
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mart
14 years ago
i am not sure if removing it would be a good thing, maybe it has only an incorrect size...
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CARTMAN
14 years ago
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bahsurman
15 years ago
Could you do it variable the option "active menu item more button-like", please? I think, it was more pretty before, in a plain style.
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xarafaxz
15 years ago
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musicmaker
15 years ago
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mart
15 years ago
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permafrost91
15 years ago
I do have two feature requests though, if this is at all possible:
1) the latest lipstick has tick-mark checkboxes which I find to be a nice touch and would, in my opinion, give Polyester a nice extra feature
2) being able to customize what color the buttons change to when highlighted.
But hey, these are mere trifles compared to what you have already done with this! I'm eagerly expecting your next release.
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rodgerSan
15 years ago
I'm using it with smoothblend and nuvola icons, it's really nice!!
Thanks!
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Superstoned
15 years ago
it's great, menu selection looks MUCH better!
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Diablo82
15 years ago
But a menubar color chooser, like in the latest vistesque patch, would be a nice addition :)
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SvenArcher
15 years ago
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Superstoned
15 years ago
thanx from me too!
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protoman
15 years ago
they look very good
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nareshv
15 years ago
can u provide an enhancement for u`r theme?
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6thpink
15 years ago
Just download the tarball and put it into distfiles before doing the "ebuild polyester.whatever digest".
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matrix1977
15 years ago
I can move the tarball to /usr/portage/distfiles, OK, but where can I get an ebuild file ?
polyester.ebuild is not in portage.
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matrix1977
15 years ago
configure gives me this error:
checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!
I've installed KDE Split ebuilds on my Gentoo machine, no monolithic KDE packages, everything else works fine, so what can I do ? It's definitely not difficult, I'm sure, but I'm no expert, so can you help me please ?
regards
matrix1977
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6thpink
15 years ago
./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
instead of just
./configure
If you are doing it with the ebuild it should just work.
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startprogger
15 years ago
./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
it won´t work. What to do now?
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matrix1977
15 years ago
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poison
15 years ago
It's really hard to read for me with the shadow =/
Otherwise: great style =)
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mart
15 years ago
now it's configurable (the "use shadowed text" checkbox)
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poison
15 years ago
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