Ivan Čukić » Contest

eeeLancelot: Just Gimme the Prize

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:27:03 +0000

The theme music in the background of this post (obviously, you don’t hear it, but let your imagination go wild) is from a rather dull movie, but with a more than awesome soundtrack:

“I have something to say, it’s better to burn out than to fade away… There can be only one!” ~ Kurgan

Well, I just wanted to show you the prize I won thanks to Qt Centre’s contest I mentioned sometime ago. Special kudos go to miss (or Mrs) Erica Brescia and Bitrock for providing me with this beauty!

And, I would like to take this chance to congratulate the other winers of the contest, and that I hope that they will enjoy their prizes as much as I do mine.

eeeLancelot

I’ve named my new pet eeeLancelot for obvious reasons. It currently runs with some strange looking KDE manufactured by Xandros. But not for long, I’ve begun the Debianization, so soon it will be a clean Debian GNU/Linux with KDE 4.2.

Cheerio!

Bragging rights (QtCentre Programming Contest 2008)

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:04:40 +0000

Well, the QtCentre Programming Contest 2oo8 is finally over and the winners are announced. OK, we all knew we are winners a month ago, but at that time we were called just finalists

Theme Contest and New Features

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:26:58 +0000

Plasma now supports different looks for panels depending on the screen edge where the panel is located. You can find more details about how to make this kind of themes at KDE’s Techbase. Basically if you want to create a custom look for a left panel, just create all background elements for it and add prefix ‘west-’ to the name of every element. (east for right, north for top and south for bottom panel).

If you don’t want to name all the elements yourself, you could always use the Slim Glow theme as a base template since it uses this new feature of Plasma.

Reminder: Start making the Plasma themes, there is a contest going on!

Plasma Themes Contest

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:36:02 +0000

This is a post from the Dot, I’m just copying the announcement here as well. So, if you would like to comment, just do it there please.

The KDE Plasma team is inviting everyone to participate in a contest to create Plasma themes from which a select few will be chosen to be included as a part of the upcoming KDE 4.1 release. This is a great opportunity to contribute to a very visible component of the KDE project, the Plasma desktop.

A great feature of Plasma is the ability to theme components of the desktop using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs). This means there is no need for you to know C++ or any other programming language to create a great looking theme.

You only need to know how to use one of many graphics tools (e.g. Krita, Inkscape, The GIMP, Karbon, etc.) and that is all. Depending on your prowess with such tools, you can create great looking plasma themes in as little as an hour.

You can find a quick guide to creating Plasma themes in the Creating a Plasma Theme in 7 Easy Steps Techbase article.

Rules:

Submit your work in the Plasma Themes section of KDE-Look.org website. Put a notice ‘(for theme contest)’ in the title of the theme.
Submissions will be accepted as a tar.gz file of the theme folder.
Submission deadline is 9th April, 2008 18:00 UTC. Themes submitted after the deadline will not be considered for this release.
Winners will be announced by 18th April, 2008.
All artwork must be original or otherwise meet the requirements for distribution as part of a GPL licensed project. Preferred license is LGPL.

Guidelines:

Consistency. All theme parts should fit nicely with each other.
Completeness. Although Plasma automatically loads required images from the default theme when they are not present in the active theme, it is suggested that you include SVGs for all theme elements.
Uniqueness. The unique always stand out in the crowd; so should your theme.

Have fun! The Plasma Team.

This is a post from the Dot, I’m just copying the announcement here as well. So, if you would like to comment, just do it there please.