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yf12s

Paul Kucher
Hi, I am yf12s and I create KDE Plasma Screenshots, KDE 3.x Window Decorations, Various KDE 1.-4. Styles and more.

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TextShadowEdit

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by SegFault 36 comments

Well, for those of you who get configure errors about the files being from the future, you may want to run a make -f Makefile.cvs before running configure. That seemed to fix it. - Jan 01 2005
KDE CC/IC, Konqueror, KMail (IN CVS)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by lokheed 128 comments

Hey, here is a proposal. Any chance this could be SVG so that way it could scale with different window sizes more gracefully? Obviously, you still need CSS and HTML holding the page together. I guess I don't know how well SVG integrates into web pages yet, since I have never seen it in practice. - Jan 01 2005
KDE CC/IC, Konqueror, KMail (IN CVS)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by lokheed 128 comments

The graphic that greets you when launching kcontrol is kde 2ish. We need something Crystal-like. I like your design because it plays off of the default splash screen. But maybe like splash screens, this could be something themeable in the future, and for instance a Nuvola-style help template and kcontrol graphic could be made. - Dec 25 2004
Gaim - Flash Notify

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by cratos 6 comments

I am not a fan of Kopete's contact list model. I'd rather have everything separated on an account basis. Plus, the last time I tried Kopete it had a lot of trouble downloading my contact lists from the server properly and you could not delete contacts locally after a change was made at the server level. Maybe these issues have been resolved, but I'm still not a fan of some of the integration features in Kopete. I wish there was a way to use more traditional styles. - Nov 05 2004
Gaim - Flash Notify

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by cratos 6 comments

I'm glad you did this. This is one of the things that I like about the windows version of Gaim. Now I have it in KDE! - Nov 05 2004
Improving KDE

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by andrunko 313 comments

The rubberband leaves artifacts all over the screen that only go away when you refresh it. If the screen is double buffered under xcompmgr, they do NOT go away. Any way to fix this? - Oct 20 2004
KPDF Icon with chunky mag

Icon Sub-Sets by Liron 11 comments

I love your icon because it is not over the top like the others. It fits well with Crystal. - Oct 09 2004
Nuvola

Icon Sub-Sets by dave 245 comments

Your icon set is awesome, but I recommend going back to your original house icon. The green flat one just isn't doing it for me. Thanks buddy. Keep up the good work! - Sep 12 2004
Nicer xorg 6.8 shadow

Various Stuff by manor 17 comments

Because that stuff is all faked transparency from what I understand. This is based on REAL transparency that can move when you drag windows, unlike the menu effects since KDE 3.1. - Sep 12 2004
qbuildkde

Developers Apps by slesa 35 comments

I'm not sure on the i18n package since I don't install it. But it wouldn't uninstall dependencies. It would only uninstall the programs you don't want, front ends to Kparts or whatever, not the underlying libraries. I mean, overall you probably aren't looking at that much more disk space after you get rid of unwanted apps. I am seeing it more from a clean up of the path and less clutter in the KMenu perspective. - Sep 08 2004
qbuildkde

Developers Apps by slesa 35 comments

No, I would think it could be much simpler than that. For instance, the 'configure' script is the only one that you need because it retains information like the prefix of the directory where you installed the software. Also, 'make uninstall' will uninstall software. Perhaps by keeping a few key files from the build directory and then a GUI can handle the running of these scripts if you want to uninstall something. Of course it would be much more complicated than that if you wanted to remove one program from a KDE package that was already installed. It would be much easier to exclude the program from compilation instead of uninstalling it after the package has been 'make install'-ed. - Sep 08 2004
qbuildkde

Developers Apps by slesa 35 comments

What KDE needs is a GUI configurator like xconfig is for the Linux kernel. One advantage Gnome has over KDE is that you don't have to install a bunch of unwanted programs if you don't want to. This is a problem for Gnome in that installation is a pain in the butt. However, KDE installs a bunch of programs that are useless or unworthy of my hard disk space. Now with KolourPaint, why do I need KPaint? Why do I need KEdit if I have KWrite and Kate? And even so, I might opt to not have some of these programs all together. In other words, we need a little utility that will let you check off programs you want to build in the various packages. I think KDE has it down when it comes to bundling the distribution over fewer packages. However, let's have some more flexibility during the compilation process. I also think it would be neat to make a control center module that would let you uninstall programs from the KDE distribution, but that is a different issue entirely. - Sep 07 2004
electoral-vote

Karamba & Superkaramba by Integral 16 comments

I'm not familiar with the book, but it could be biased. Don't take whatever you read to heart, that is just naive. The author could have cherry picked information and told you what he wanted you to believe. I'm not saying that's the case, but all the research I've done indicates that the only recounts that went Gore's way were ones he had his people handling. - Aug 26 2004
Baghira

KDE 3.5 Themes by thomas12777 1262 comments

Yeah, me too. (Mandrake 10.0 with KDE 3.2.2) - Aug 04 2004
Grounation

Cursors by dvornik 34 comments

Yeah, same here. The window resize cursors don't show up on mine. - Jul 20 2004
asteroid

KDE 3.5 Themes by clee 28 comments

I use Automake 1.8.x, but cvs.sh doesn't like it so I had to make some changes. You may want to fix that in the future for less-savvy users. Great style! I've been waiting for this for a while. - May 08 2004
HomeOffice 1.0 Preview

Icon Sub-Sets by dadeisvenm 3 comments

You say you use Sodipodi, but you should really try Inkscape, which is a lot better:

http://inkscape.sourceforge.net

Inkscape is going for full SVG compliance, Sodipodi does not. - May 04 2004
GRUB NextBoot

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by marktaff 44 comments

Awesome feature, and it's already in KDM. But, could you make this LILO compatible? - Apr 21 2004
Plastik for Firefox

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by djworld 167 comments

The Favicon should be a piece of paper if there isn't one for a particular web site. The directory icon doesn't look right. Great work! I've abandoned my Firebird Crystal theme after porting it to Firefox as others are leading the way with better Firefox themes. How does this work? Because I can't tell the difference between this and Qt. Does it use Qt for the drawing? Can you do this for Thunderbird (at least the Plastik part)? - Mar 20 2004
KDE 3.2 Aquafied

KDE Plasma Screenshots by ntesa 6 comments

Copy the KMenu icon and rename it menuk-mdk.png, this will overwrite the stupid star. Also, you can ditch the stupid blue background for the KMenu in the kicker preferences.

I'm with you, and I hate it when Mandrake changes the defaults, especially stuff like this that is so obvious. One of the first things I do when I install it is ditch all of their branding. It takes about three to four hours to fully get rid of, but it's doable. - Mar 15 2004
Konqueror Blue Compass Icon

Icon Sub-Sets by marcm2003 4 comments

but what does it signify? What would I use this for? - Mar 09 2004
Crystal Animated Gear

Icon Sub-Sets by emuman 12 comments

I don't like the rotating ball either. Make an optional version without it. - Mar 08 2004
kinternet icons for kicker

Icon Sub-Sets by Kuser_double 3 comments

These icons look like they were adapted from HiColor. Nice about 4 years ago, but not today. Sorry, I had to be blunt. - Feb 06 2004
QSplitter mod

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by lkmts 8 comments

This is an awesome improvement. I wish it would get merged into Qt/KDE. - Dec 28 2003
Crystal 1.0 Theme for Mozilla Firebird

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by yf12s 15 comments

I have submitted the theme to them per your request. I was holding off until I could finish every last aspect of this theme before submitting it to texturizer, but now is good enough. I am waiting for Everaldo to make some nice tab-related icons. There are 16x16 tab icons but these icons look horrible at 32x32. I'm hoping something new is in the works. - Dec 28 2003
Crystal 1.0 Theme for Mozilla Firebird

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by yf12s 15 comments

That's Ximian's Industrial Theme for GTK2. Remember that Firebird is available in both GTK+ and GTK2 with XFT.

So, I just went to rpmfind.net and got the Ximian Artwork 0.2.26 package for Mandrake, but you can get and compile the theme engine from http://art.gnome.org if you use something else. I'm not sure on the availability of binary packages for your particular distribution. - Dec 28 2003
Amaranth (Vibrant)

Icon Sub-Sets by Doches 6 comments

Nice and simple. - Nov 30 2003
Relax

Icon Sub-Sets by pirke 34 comments

I forgot to add that I like your Firebird Icon. - Nov 28 2003
Relax

Icon Sub-Sets by pirke 34 comments

Very good. Keep it up! - Nov 28 2003
Outline

Icon Sub-Sets by everaldo 10 comments

Keep up the great work Everaldo. - Nov 27 2003
KDE 4 Kids

Icon Sub-Sets by everaldo 27 comments

As usual, great work! - Nov 27 2003
Knifty (KDE >= 3.2)

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by ceebx 78 comments

I really like this theme, but I think that your WM decoration for Plastik is better. Thank you again for Plastik, keep up the great work! - Nov 09 2003
Mcc-Crystal-One

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by gotux78 8 comments

Is the MCC now written in Qt??? It appears that way by the screen shot. It used to be GTK 2, that's why I ask. - Oct 26 2003
Almost Industrial

KDE 3 Color Schemes by hakker21 2 comments

I've been looking for an Industrial knockoff for KDE for quite some time. This one still is just an adjusted Plastik, and doesn't have the elegance of Ximian's Industrial.

If I had the time, I'd try to make a true knockoff. I don't know if this is possible.

For instance, the gradients just don't exist in Industrial like they do in Plastik. Also, The whole theme needs to look flatter with more rounding of edges.

Other than a couple of changes, I can't see the difference between this and Plastik (another fine theme, but it is nothing like Industrial). - Oct 25 2003
Liquid-Mozilla

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by apsivam 7 comments

This will help complete the desktop for users of Liquid. I have to say I've abandoned Liquid years ago, but your theme is well done. - Oct 20 2003
KDE Style Proposal

Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by ununumio 8 comments

This style looks like a cross between Bluecurve and Ximian Desktop 2's default theme. I like it a lot, wish it were in KDE. - Jul 02 2003
ULTIMATE KDE TAB FEATURES

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by WinterWolf 18 comments

If you highlight text in Konqueror, "right-clicking" will not give you a copy option in the context menu. You have to go to Edit, which is a real pain. - May 27 2003
ULTIMATE KDE TAB FEATURES

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by WinterWolf 18 comments

Create a tab Mozilla-style with a button to the left of the first tab by default.

Nice ideas. I would like to see them in KDE. On the topic of Konqueror, why isn't there a copy and paste option in the context menu? It seems like a natural way to do work in the file manager. This is my #1 complaint about that program, the tabs are functional and are low on my priority list. - May 27 2003
crystal xcursors

Cursors by mart 125 comments

You don't know how long I've waited for such a theme. This is about how I'd expect it to be for Crystal. - May 20 2003
Polish News Module

Karamba & Superkaramba by maciunio 95 comments

How did you do that? Or where did you find the top bar? - May 15 2003
KWin drop shadow patches

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 58 comments

I really like what you've done. Can you tell me if the KDE Core Developers are considering your code for inclusion in kdebase for version 3.2? I can't wait to see it merged. If they aren't, I want to write to them because this is really taking shape, even with your recent speed boosts. - May 07 2003
Bluecurve

Karamba & Superkaramba by andy72 6 comments

I like it. Does anyone know where I can find the bluecurve style for Gnome and KDE in RPM for Mandrake? I don't want it for KDE in particular, but I really like it for Gnome. - May 03 2003
I use Linux because I am interested in computing. I AM NOT one of those who actually thinks Linux can take down Microsoft. I AM NOT one of those who dislikes Microsoft.

I use Windows more than I use Linux. I am interested in both. Anyone who thinks that Linux can take on the Windows marketshare is out of their mind. Maybe they should be hanging out with Steve Jobs somewhere with all of the other hippies.

But if Linux is a socialist operating system, I don't want to have anything to do with it. I think it's just something fun to do, not some ideological movement. - Apr 16 2003
I am sticking to the Eurotrash comments. Europeans shouldn't kid themselves. The United States is #1.

I used to think I was above this and I was silent. That used to show my superior attitude and point of view. However, the silence of the righteous merely lets war protests gain more credibility than they deserve. Gain some common sense and realize your position.

Someone talked about the brains of Europe making society what it is today. My ancestry is eastern European. However, what once was a respectable, formidable continent is on the brink of irrelevance. You have to always be strong if you want to be taken seriously. Reputation is a bad thing to hang on to, and that is merely what one of the poster's base argument was.

Anyone who criticizes my president is the real moron. I would love to tell Gerhard Schroeder and Jacques Chirac to go to hell. The same hatred you share for my leader I likewise share for yours.

But what pisses me off is that, like Microsoft, a monopolistic force has to be better than the nonexistent competition. I am getting down to your level so you can see my point, and so you can realize how great the United States actually is. There is nothing you can do about the war in Iraq, so get over it. - Apr 15 2003
This is way too awesome. I downloaded it before the Eurotrash votes it off of the site. Thanks! - Apr 15 2003
MandrakeGalaxy colour consistency

Various Stuff by Deciare 5 comments

I suppose you have to be in love with gradients to like it too. - Apr 10 2003
MandrakeGalaxy colour consistency

Various Stuff by Deciare 5 comments

. . . the times.

Where is translucency in this theme? I am a Mandrake user and found this theme a little hacked together.

But your improvements are very nice. Good job! - Apr 10 2003
Crystal GT

Full Icon Themes by everaldo 385 comments

A couple of days ago I saw that Everaldo posted his latest development project, called the Outline Icon Set. Then, he took it down, why is that?

Also, I really don't think that you should be creating a new icon set when Crystal isn't finished. I can provide a list of icons that still need to be done. - Apr 01 2003
dotNET

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by clee 112 comments

I have sent you e-mail. - Mar 18 2003
dotNET

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by clee 112 comments

This is why I love KDE. I just saw your initial screenshots and thought that my favorite style had changed for the worst. But if you say it's configurable, I don't have problems with that. Although I do not use Liquid, I can appreciate the great lengths that Mosfet has gone to in allowing custom options.

Do you take feature suggestions?

Perhaps change your progress dialog and check boxes/radio buttons to mimic the Windows XP green and gray ones. Is this possible? I've seen it done in other styles, but I am happy either way with the old look.

This is the cleanest style for KDE around, and I greatly appreciate your efforts. Thanks. - Mar 18 2003