Comments on: Plasma themes and Lancelot

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Lancelot y los temas de plasma | KDE Blog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:59:56 +0000

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By: 16777216

16777216 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:00:40 +0000

Sorry,.. But, thanks for this awesomeness.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:06:46 +0000

Oh your work is gorgeous!! This is what the KDE menu should have been! Keep up the great work please!

By: Ivan Čukić

Ivan Čukić — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:55:10 +0000

@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

By: Fenix-TX

Fenix-TX — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:16:05 +0000

Uff!!! I love Lancelot and those themes looks very very very beautiful!!!

By: student

student — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:30:43 +0000

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..

By: Mark Kretschmann

Mark Kretschmann — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:03:34 +0000

Nice screenshot, Ivan.

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

By: jrick

jrick — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:40:14 +0000

@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.

By: frustphil

frustphil — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:27:15 +0000

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*

By: jrick

jrick — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:20:28 +0000

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?