

If you're interested in cleaner code, you may want to port KONX to either this widget style or to my SkeletonStyle framework. dotNET is nifty, and I love it but it's got a few hairy code areas, and this codebase is a bit cleaner as I started fresh with it.
Also, thanks for the pointer about the toolbar buttons. I'll take a crack at that ASAP. - May 07 2004
For any other packagers out there - if you would like to make a binary package for my style, please contact me via email; I will be happy to link to your packages from the official style page, so that we don't have to have "Asteroid for Debian" and "Asteroid for Mandrake" as separate pages here on looky. The database is already full enough, no need to go duplicating the same widget style six times over for different packages. - May 07 2004
Until then, please restart your applications and let me know how you enjoy the style! - May 06 2004
If you're daring, you can fix my brain damage with the package and get it to compile with Qt 3.1. It should even work against Qt 3.0 but I won't make any promises there; I haven't tested it, of course, but the code was originally written against a Qt 3.0 beta, and I haven't added any specific 3.2+ hooks that would fail. I just packaged it poorly, that's all. - Dec 29 2003
For what it's worth - I wrote this style originally in November 2001.
Just dug it out, updated the code from the old Qt 3.0beta QStyle API to make it compile with the newer Qt releases, and slapped it together to gauge the level of interest.
So, when it finishes - lemme know what you think.
-clee - Dec 22 2003

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by shm 13 comments
Take a look at the screenshot he uploaded earlier today. :)
-clee - Nov 13 2003
1) GTK+ is, IMHO, a pain in the ass to code for, especially when it comes to coding styles.
2) Ximian's "Industrial" theme looks _very_ similar to dotNET with Pseudo3D, also. And the inconsistencies between it and dotNET will be very difficult to notice, or at least it looks like it... and I'm making dotNET look more like it where I can.
3) I've had the preliminary code for a GTK+ version of dotNET laying here on my HD for a while, but it doesn't look anything like the Qt version, and I'm still not quite finished with this one, so...
However, I think that dotNET and Ximian's "Industrial" will go very nicely together. Now we just have to wait for them to release it.
-clee - Jun 07 2003

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by clee 18 comments
As far as the pinstripe goes... well, look around in the source! (Yes, this effect makes it possible to have real MacOS X-style progress bars.)
Now if only keithp would move along with the X Translucency Extension... :) - May 31 2003

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by clee 18 comments
-clee - May 31 2003

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by clee 18 comments
As it is, this is the most straightforward and efficient way to handle it. If you can come up with something better (as in code, not ideas) then please, feel free to show us up.
-clee - May 30 2003

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by clee 18 comments
If there is an easy way to make an MNG out of a window, frame-by-frame, please let me know. - May 29 2003

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by WinterWolf 35 comments
See http://c133.org/kiwi/new-label.png for an example... although the alignment is off in that screenshot and the menus are actually coming along a lot nicer recently.
Also, GNOME doesn't really have Mac-style menus. They have a menu widget in their top panel, yes, but it doesn't change to the current application's menus when you change applications; in KDE, it does. (And in 3.2, the Mac-style menubar will be a Kicker applet, so you'll be able to have your K button and system tray and clock all on the top panel at the same time.)
3.2 is going to be even more fun than 3.1 :) - Apr 28 2003
I don't have a copy of Windows (any version) installed, so could you maybe give me a screenshot link or two (in an email, preferably) explaining what you mean? (The progressbars are next up for a reimplementation anyway.) - Mar 18 2003
In KDE 3.2, there may even be a graphical configuration dialog for per-style configuration settings so that one never needs to muck with the ~/.qt/kstylerc manually at all. This would be nice.
As always, though, I am providing what I feel are the best and most reasonable defaults. Pseudo3D is now default because I think that it looks a hell of a lot better than the old default, because I've reimplemented the style for most of the widgets (only a few stragglers remain, and I'm targetting them too). But it costs me nearly nothing to keep the old code in there, and it even serves as inspiration when I'm looking for how I want to do something in Pseudo3D.
Anyway, my point being - making things like this configurable is good, and taking away the freedom of choice from you guys just because I happen to think Pseudo3D is neat would be stupid and unfriendly. I just wish that the GNOME developers felt the same. - Mar 18 2003
Also, I'm thinking about merging in the changes from the dotNET-R and making that an option as well. Not sure yet. We'll see. (But one thing is for sure - dotNET is definitely not stagnant. :) - Mar 16 2003
Right now it's still very basic, but it's fast, and clean, and small (sorta like dotNET :). We're aiming to make it an iTunes for KDE; if that sounds interesting to you, please try it out and give me some feedback. - Mar 15 2003
I'm also considering renaming it to dotORG, but that's something that I'll think about later on.
For the adventurous, if you don't already, you can hang out on irc.openprojects.net, in #kde, and chances are pretty good that you'll catch me in there. - Nov 30 2001
So tell me what to make better! Everybody wins. If you think that a full rewrite would be better, implementing a better look'n'feel that isn't even remotely similar to a MS GUI, then I eagerly await your patches or the announcement on the main page here. Until then, let the other people tell me how much they like it, because it's a nice boost for my ego. : ) -clee - Oct 19 2001
Other news: I'm porting this to Qt3, slowly. But it'll be there for KDE3, maybe even in the default distribution. What do you guys think? Should this be included with KDE3? - Oct 16 2001
Again, thanks for the comments. If you do notice any bugs, even minor ones, please don't fail to let me know about them. My email is lee@azsites.com.
-clee - Oct 15 2001