Ivan Čukić

Nov 22 2008

Plasma themes and Lancelot

Since I have received so many complaints because “Lancelot doesn’t follow/obey/… Plasma theme”, and I am tired of pointing the people to the FAQ, I decided to make the necessary files needed by Lancelot for all Plasma themes that ship with plasma-addons package.

Share and Enjoy:

Category: Lancelot, Comments (15)

15 Comments

Cool & nice..

Comment by solardeity — 22 November 2008 @ 13:30
Great! I waiting for this.

Comment by tuxvotec — 22 November 2008 @ 13:34
If the Oxygen theme the same as the old style, I really liked the simplicity of the categories menu (flat black, with flat white for highlighting)?

You just ca’t win.

Not that I’m going to complain, it’s a lovely app to use with or without highlights.

Unfortunately the KDE-unstable (trunk) version has disappeared from the SUSE servers for a while now. Just looking forward to its return.

Comment by maninalift — 22 November 2008 @ 13:42
Sorry “If” –> “Is”

Comment by maninalift — 22 November 2008 @ 13:43
\m/

Comment by Dread Knight — 22 November 2008 @ 13:52
Wow, really nice!

Now, are these extra themes hard coded into Lancelot, or did you add the necessary files into these Plasma themes for Lancelot to use them?

Comment by jrick — 22 November 2008 @ 14:20
hey, can the holy grail icon be replaced with other icons? it’s too small and doesn’t stand out from other icons. maybe you could add something like circular(whatever) button on which the holy grail rests? i kinda thinking ‘similar’ to the vista one? seriously, why KDE doesn’t make the menu icon, in all aspects, distinct to other icons? *wishing* *wishing*

Comment by frustphil — 22 November 2008 @ 14:27
@frustphil

You can replace the grail in your taskbar with another icon, but AFAIK you can’t change it in the lower right hand corner of the menu.

Comment by jrick — 22 November 2008 @ 14:40
Nice screenshot, Ivan.

But note: Sometimes JPEG just isn’t the right tool for the job (compression artifacts). PNG would have been better here.

Comment by Mark Kretschmann — 22 November 2008 @ 15:03
smart move.

Now other people can skin it for you, and therefor you do not need to listen to all the people complaining about colors.

Thanks for a great app, with constant updates..

Comment by student — 22 November 2008 @ 18:30
Uff!!! I love Lancelot and those themes looks very very very beautiful!!!

Comment by Fenix-TX — 22 November 2008 @ 21:16
@maninalift
The default (Oxygen) theme is not shown in the screenshots. It is the same as it always was

@jrick
No. They are not hard-coded (almost nothing in L is). I’ve just created files for those themes that L needs.

One note though – those files are shipped with L, and not with the themes, just like with the default one. (there is no point for someone who doesn’t want to install L to have its theme files)

@frustphil
You’ve got your answer. As far as the default menu icon goes, it exists, but nobody uses it really – the menus most of the time use the KDE logo.

Mark
Yes, I’m a votary of PNG too, but I wanted to make the image as lightweight as I could. (I usually, when using jpeg, go for > 90% quality, and this time I lowered it to 50%).

@student
Well, as you saw, the fact that the other people /could/ create the themes for L (it was possible since L’s inception) had no effect, so I had to do it

Comment by Ivan Čukić — 22 November 2008 @ 21:55
Oh your work is gorgeous!! This is what the KDE menu should have been! Keep up the great work please!

Comment by Mike — 23 November 2008 @ 16:06
Sorry,.. But, thanks for this awesomeness.

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