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Sep 16 2007

New Plasma theme, and a new blog

Well, first of all, I’ve moved my blog away from Blogger to my own domain powered by the all-mighty WordPress. The first step was to make it look unique an pretty – so a new WP theme was born.

Then I thought of what would be fit to celebrate the moving, and it just occurred to me – why not make a Plasma theme that will be based on this blog design? Making a Plasma theme is surprisingly easy job so I encourage you all to give it a try.

The only obstacle I had, was that the painting of the borders was done by repeating the border pattern, and I needed my borders to be stretched. So, after a small patch to the Plasma’s background painting routine, Plasma now has the ability to paint both pattern (default option) and stretched background borders. The only thing you need to do if you want your borders to be stretched is to create an object in the SVG file called “hint-stretch-borders”.

Here’s a obligatory screenshot of a couple of more prominent widgets using the new theme.
My Plasma Theme Screenshot

P.S. One thing more about the new blog is that for validating user comments I’ve activated the reCAPTCHA system that helps in digitalizing books by giving you (people that make the comments) words that the OCR can not understand

Category: KDE, Comments (19)

19 Comments

  1. Hi, love the theme! Just wondering – will it be possible to remove that thick line cutting through the numbers? I know it’s meant to resemble an old-school alarm clock but that line detracts from the clock. The wallpaper and silver gradient look great however.

    Comment by Darryl Rudd — 16 September 2007 @ 09:40 Reply to this comment

  2. Hi Ivan,

    Congratulations on your new blog! It does look unique and very pretty. :)

    I hadn’t heard anything about Plasma themes until now, but that sounds great. (But I should have expected it – it’s KDE after all).

    Keep up with the great work!

    Comment by Hans — 16 September 2007 @ 09:44 Reply to this comment

  3. @Darryl
    I’m not sure about the unfortunate clock – the way the clock devs make it, that way it’ll be.

    @Hans
    Thanks

    Comment by admin — 16 September 2007 @ 09:46 Reply to this comment

  4. How about “spoons”, because that was the first thing the theme reminded me off ;-)

    Comment by Quintesse — 16 September 2007 @ 13:13 Reply to this comment

  5. And now you’ll get loads of comments from people wanting to try out the new captcha.

    Comment by robert — 16 September 2007 @ 15:18 Reply to this comment

  6. @Quintesse
    Spoons? Heh, nice idea :)

    @robert
    Why do you think I’m posting these replies to comments ;)

    Comment by admin — 16 September 2007 @ 15:31 Reply to this comment

  7. Nice theme – you might be the first to create an alternative plasma theme. You should make sure it ends up in kde-artwork or where-ever-the-hell these things will end up living.

    Also, testing the captchas :P You should also enable the openID plugin.

    Comment by Troy Unrau — 16 September 2007 @ 15:57 Reply to this comment

  8. @Troy
    It’s a small step for me, but a great one for kdekind. :)

    As for the openID, I’ll check it out. Cheers, and hope to see you again at the next aKademy.

    Comment by admin — 16 September 2007 @ 17:10 Reply to this comment

  9. I was wondering what the whole”read books” part of reCAPTCHA was about… Now I know. :)

    Comment by Rexbron! — 17 September 2007 @ 09:24 Reply to this comment

  10. Nice theme!

    Comment by Joergen Ramskov — 20 September 2007 @ 09:04 Reply to this comment

  11. reCaptcha sure is fun..

    Comment by meh — 13 October 2007 @ 07:42 Reply to this comment

  12. Was checking out the obligatory screenshots to see how themable Plasma was. Decided I’d play with reCaptcha too.

    Comment by Kevin Dean — 30 November 2007 @ 20:48 Reply to this comment

  13. Zdravo Ivane,
    svaka čast na radu!
    Nego odakle si ti??

    Comment by Dušan — 1 December 2007 @ 08:58 Reply to this comment

  14. Hey, it’s reCatchpa. It helps digitize public domain books. =)

    Comment by vladsinger — 22 December 2007 @ 21:22 Reply to this comment

  15. Nice theme! thanks

    Comment by Yigit — 20 February 2008 @ 23:52 Reply to this comment

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