


Various KDE 1.-4. Styles by lost 13 comments
i would like to see that :-) - Sep 25 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
but beware to have the right version! - Sep 03 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
well, i thought about re-porting the patch to kde3.4 kde3.5-cvs, as my notebook is too lame to handle xcomposite very well. and on the other side, the (xc|k)ompmgr kills my xserver regularly, so i'm not using it at all xD
i just got back to kde last week, after trying to get kde-cvs (aka kde4) running, but qt4 doesn't seem to like my system, as i haven't got any fonts running in qt4 - thats not soo good ;-)
i have no clue about the xinerama-problem. i tried to re-write the compositing manager, but have failed on a very slow and lame program...
so if i get some time, i'll do my very best to re-port the patch, but i can't guarantee anything... - Sep 03 2005

Wallpaper Other by Luck 6 comments

KDE 3.x Splash Screens by tony042 4 comments
but since i'm not dual-booting i "can't" use it xD - Dec 14 2004

KDM3 Themes by jriddell 8 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by gr3gg 60 comments
and what about her?
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuxez/img/features.jpg
=)
sorry for off-topic-ing
back to topic: what i would like to see in kopete would be vertical toolbars and that stuff, like sim can do :) - Nov 06 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by gr3gg 60 comments
and whats wrong with kopete when looking at this:
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuxez/img/kopete.jpg ?
i like it more that way, than your idea...well that's just my opinion :) - Nov 06 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by freqmodn 1 comment
regards... - Oct 22 2004

Wallpapers Windows by HDLM 4 comments
but still quite cool xD - Oct 21 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
if you wan't to use xorg's composite extension, than checkout this:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=16114
if you still want to use this patch here, than get urself a kdebase-3.3.1.tar.bz2 or whatever kdebase-3.3.1-source-package you want and unpack it, cd into kdebase-3.3.1 and do:
patch -p0 < /path/to/kwin_shadow_patch/kdebase-XXX.patch
./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` --disable-debug
cd kwin
make
make install (as root)
ps ax | grep kwin
kill && kwin &
exit (if kwin started)
thats all, simple, isn't it? :) - Oct 20 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
take this, if the other link is broken again. i hope the author doesn't mind...
link:http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuxez/projects/kwin_shadow/ - Oct 20 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=16114
i'm posting there patches too :) - Sep 14 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
cd ${S}
epatch ${FILESDIR}/kdebase.kwin-kwin_shadow-3.3.0.patch
at the end of the src-unpack section. then unpack the patch-file and put kdebase.kwin-kwin_shadow-3.3.0.patch in /usr/portage/kde-base/kdebase/files
and then type emerge kdebase
to be able to use this even after an emerge sync, make use of $PORTAGE_OVERLAY. read the gentoo-docs... - Sep 13 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
do you mean this patch here or the other patch, which crashed your control-center?
well, i haven't figured out any conrol-center problems with the kwin-drop-shadow patch. but nobodies an all-seeing eye ;) - Sep 12 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
the win-deco is something i started a while ago, but haven't finished yet, due to other coding-things...
man, if i just could figure out, why my compmgr doesn't work when using a buffering picture for drawing :/ - Sep 12 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
i still need to implement the drawing routine and 2 events *i think* and then i need to test it, and debug it...and to hope it works, well the first try didn't :( - Sep 11 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments

Wallpaper Other by TheOneAndOnlyFoo 7 comments

Wallpaper Other by TheOneAndOnlyFoo 7 comments
btw. cool webdesign... - Sep 11 2004

Wallpaper Other by TheOneAndOnlyFoo 7 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
but, for the starting the program i'm working on will be a program - man what a useless statement ;)
after this is working, i will think about integrating it into kwin. this way, i don't kill my kwin all the time *hehe* :)
cya - Sep 08 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
the other problem is, that keith's shadows aren't drawn relative to the shape of the window, so you wil have corruptions, because they take window_height x window_width, but not every deco is built to fill that space out -> the spare sections give weird colours ;)
and on the other hand, it is a good start to get familiar with x-calls and so on... ;) - Sep 08 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
well i think i'll try from scratch ;) - Sep 07 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
currently i'm trying to put that thing just as it is in, because doing it by myself gave me stupid badrenderpicture errors, i wasn't able to fix :( - Sep 04 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
just that tiny preview is displayed
but if you want you can mail it to me and i'll put it up on my homepage to the other 3 ;) - Sep 04 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
but lets see if there's a chance to get this working... - Sep 01 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
well i just did some kwin-hacking again ;)
transparency can be toggled per kwin, so there's no need for transset ;)
if i can bite my ass, i will do some more research about xcmoposite and xcompmgr for kwin-integration ;)
but for now its time to get some sleep (-_-)zzzZzzZzzzzz - Aug 31 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
and if there would be someone building such a package, i would host it on some webspace, or put the link on the download-section - Aug 31 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
but i 'just' ported and modified the patch...but it was hard enough to understand whats happening in there ;)
the kdelibs3.3 and kdebase3.3 patch should apply without any warning on kde 3.3.0...
by the way: was anyone so heroic and tried the binary? i would be interested, wheather it works or not - if not, i could just delete it (but backup your original libs first) - Aug 30 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
well, if you like kde, you could just use metacity instead of kwin and could still use kde, but without the windeco... - Aug 30 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
my laptops cpu is strong enough, but the graphics ship is not :/
i'll checkout cvs tomorrow, maybe there is some new code
ok i've got to hang on that shell-script here again... - Aug 30 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
well, you should know that the current state of xcomposite/xdamage/xshadow is unstable. its slow, and causes some shadow-corruptions.
but if you just want to try it, you can set in /etc/portage/package.unmask
>=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.99.2
x11-misc/xcompmgr
x11-misc/transset
to unmask the needed ebuilds. then you can emerge it by calling:
emerge xorg-x11 xcompmgr transset
(maybe you need to 'emerge sync' before)
you need to uninstall xfree first, if it is installed.
don't expect too much, but with a fast cpu and a good gfx-card it could be useable. by the way, you have to download about 45megabytes of data... - Aug 30 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
well patching/installing is described in the install-file *wonderwonder* :)
well its not more as wget your.fave.host/.../kde/stable/3.3/src/kdebase.*.tar.bz2
tar jxf kdebase.*.tar.bz2
cd kdebase.*
patch -p0 < path/to/patch/kdebase.kwin_shadow*
./configure ..prefix=$KDEDIR && cd kwin && make && make install
instead of wget you could your distributions kdebase-src package, if there is one in the matching version
about the windeco: where i get it? between the left and right side of my head ;) or this way: yeah its my work...but it's not finished yet...you should be glad, that you haven't seen the shaded mode yet, you would be scared a lot ;)
i need some buttons...i have already ideas, but i'm not getting started to make them to buttons :/ - Aug 30 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by zuxez 71 comments
WARNING: i'm thinking again ;)
i know that it uses the xcomposite extension. just using 24bit for colors and using the rest (8 bits) for alpha-blends. its just a module which can be loaded by xorg. its quite not fully useable (as you can see on the xorg_screenshot -> shadows are corrupted a bit) and its kinda slow, too. but it gives a start on this things.
ok qt-menu-transparency is borked when xcomposite enabled, and windowmoving without real hardwareaccel is a real pain.
and in my opinion i still think its server-side, because of the xcomposite-extension in the xserver it uses. metacity just utilizes this extension. so the client (metacity) is only controling the window shadows/translucency rendered by the server
but, i could be completely wrong again :D
well i'm not using it at all at the moment. cause it slows down gaming, even without 'seen' shadows/trancparency. but i will stay in touch, as i just replaced xorg-x11 install which comes with portage on gentoo, with xorg-x11-cvs which came from my side ;)
what i would like in the xserver-design would be a modularization (strange word? :) like the linux-kernel has. we would be able to perform module-[un-][re-]loads on the fly, without restarting the xserver...damn, i like to dream :D - Aug 30 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 134 comments
the patch for kde3.3.0-final will be released this weekend - at least i think so. well, i've fixed some minor shadow glitches and needless redraws. but there's still an glitch which is reproducible all the time. the good news: i know whats causing the glitch - the bad news: fixing this would cause more redraws/performance or it would need checking the order of the clients :/ (maybe i'll think about that more intensive, tomorrow)
i tried to give a more complete shadow-updating in kstyle, but QScrollView updates in applications aren't recognized and forwarded as they should :/
one more 'bad' news. this could be the last patch for kwin utilizing these shadows. the reason will be explained with the release.
i'm going to sleep now... good night :) - Aug 25 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 134 comments
might be corruptions. but you can replace kde completely by a newer version. 3.3.0 final should be
released in the next 7 days (can't remember the actual date)
and you have to take the patch for kde-3.2.3. the link should be some posts before or just click
here:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/waitandbleed/kdebase.kwin-kwin_shadow-3.2.3.patch
thats only the kwin-patch. the kdefx-patch is located in the file from deciare himself (with the
readme and the whole other stuff)
note: with the final release of kde 3.3 (and me being back in berlin) i will do a new content-page containg at least actual 3.3-patches and maybe 3.2.3 too - Aug 17 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 134 comments
2. unpack 'em
3. cd into kdebase-x.x.x and do:
patch -p0 < kdebase.kwin.patch
(and for kdelibs: cd kdelibs-x.x.x/kdefx
and do patch -p0 < kdelibs.kwin.patch
4. configure, make, make install etc.
(i think kdelibs needs to be completely recompiled, but kdebase can be done by cd kwin && make && make install after ./configure)
hmm i missed to put the readme into the patch-archive :/
but in the file on this side here there is an readme/install describing the install procedure. you can have a look at this...
and please, do a click on [good] at the vote for this project. thanks :) - Aug 14 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 134 comments
http://mitglied.lycos.de/waitandbleed/kde.kwin_shadow-3.3.0_rc2.tar.bz2
they've only f**ked up the ruleswidgetbase.ui and two other lines of code ;)
patch should apply without ANY fuzz/offset/error message :)
atleast it does so here ;)
ok i'm on vacation for on and a half or two weeks, so don't expect much interactivity from my side...but i'll have a look
in the meanwhile i will continue coding on this:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/waitandbleed/current_work.jpg
yeah i know, not the best (i'm a design misstalent ;), but i like it, and its my first kwindeco :)
hey guys, please vote with a good for this project here. we wanna stay no 1, don't we? :) - Aug 10 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 134 comments
did it work? - Aug 07 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 134 comments
these need to be installed, and then patched with this patch. should be installed in $KDEDIR/include
a little note: you don't need the kdelibs-patch if you don't want to use it. it just enables the click-through-the-shadow feature. but its very useful, especially when you use thik shadows (they cover a lot of useful clickarea :( - Aug 07 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 134 comments
here's the real one:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/waitandbleed/kde.kwin_shadow-3.3.0_beta2.tar.bz2
question: should an active shadow always be larger than an inactive? i'm asking, becaus if you scroll your wheel through an inactive shadowed window, it gets the active shadow but is _not_ raised. therefor its nearer to the desk than the inactive window on top...i think it looks kinda strange...what do you think?
and by the way: sorry for my english, that s**ks real hard ;) - Aug 04 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 134 comments
*fix of the annoying bug (apply->nothing happens)
*added user-adjustable shadowdelay-time
*added kwin-rules support
(look at the screenshot for more on this)
the screenshot
http://mitglied.lycos.de/waitandbleed/features.jpg
the patch:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/waitandbleed/kde.kwin-kwin_shadow-3.3.0_beta2.patch.tar.bz2
enjoy :) - Aug 04 2004