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Widget style + kwin decoration both aimed to be a good balance between eye candy and simplicity
11 years ago
2.0
-some fixes in build files, links less stuff
-fixed icons on tabbars
-fixed a bug in kcalc
2.0 beta2
-built with cmake is a kstyle, built with qmake is a plain qt style
-some fixes here and there
-corrected a crash with qt webkit
-corrected a graphical glitch with textboxes in Plasma
Polyester 1.0.5:
-compiles with gcc 4.3
Polyester 1.0.4:
-Corrected some visual glitches in ksnapshot
Polyester 2.0 Beta1:
-some graphics fixes
-some build system fixes
-translations should be ported
Polyester 1.0.3:
-Polish translation by Tomek Argasiński
-Italian translation
Polyester 1.95:
The widget set it's more or less complete, there are still some issues and i didn't tried all the combinations of configuration options, so some of these can still be broken :)
Polyester 1.90:
This is the first public releases of the qt4/kde4 port of polyester, some important notes:
-First of all it must be considered a very early alpha quality code not intended for everyday use, it could blow up your computer or eat your cat, use at your own risk :P
-as i said is not very stable and probably not all configuration option works
-at the moment there is only the style, i don't know if or when i will port the window decoration
-it can be compiled with cmake (and you will need a kde4 snapshot o do so) typing
cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=whathever you want
make
make install
-or with qmake (you will need only qt4 with devel package, but you won't get the configuration dialog)
in order to use qmake you must go in the style subfolder and type:
qmake qmake.pro
make
make install
-probably i won't release another release tarball for quite some time, but if you're curious there is a bazaar repository at http://launchpad.net/polyester
Polyester 1.0.2:
-corrected a bug in the configuration dialog (centered tabbars)
Polyester 1.0.1:
mostly a bugfix release
-corrected a build problem with automake 2.6+
widget:
-better management of the menu stripe width
-another hack for gtk-qt: the menu stripe is always off (yeah, it's a broken solution but it was managed too bad...)
-when both toolbar separators and menubar emphasis with border are turned on don't draw an extra line under the menubar
deco:
-when the focus policy is set to "focus follows mouse" the bad flickering should be done (need some testing)
-corrected a bug that caused the windows not being completely painted when kcompmgr is activated
Polyester 1.0:
This will be more or less the final version for Qt3/KDE3, apart some fixes for the garzillions of terrible bugs I'm sure that are still there :)
widget:
-With colored scrollbars option turned off, the scrollbar handle has colored extremities on mouse over (similar to the Ubuntu theme)
-In the configuration dialog "Menus and toolbars" was misleading, now it's "Advanced"
-nice circles instead of asterisks in password lineedits. Idea from Daniel Molkentin http://daniel.molkentin.de/blog/index.php?/archives/59-Password-shadowing-Pimp-My-Plastique.html (will probably be the default in KDE 3.6 btw)
-default button highlight when animations are disabled
-alphablending (yes, fake of course:)) at the corners of the popup menus
-corrected a bug in the sliders aspect
deco:
-titlebar buttons icons have a cleaner aspect
Polyester 1.0_rc1:
widget:
-less (and bigger) dots on QSplitters
-button like menuitems works with transparent menus
-menu stripe works with transparent menus
-entirely redesigned the configuration dialog (should be more usable)
-a lot of code cleanups in the configuration code
-light gradient in the progressbar blank area
-corrected an ugly rendering bug in the QGridView headers
-corrected a rendering bug in the slider with reverse layout
-minor cosmetic changes to the following widgets:
-scrollbars
-sliders
-default buttons contour
-spinboxes
-inactive tabs
-better mouse over highlight with checkboxes and radiobuttons
-border of buttons and other 3d widgets
deco:
-option to make rectangular titlebar buttons (at the moment is the default)
-antialiased titlebar buttons border
-redesigned the configuration dialog to be similar to the style configuration
-added svg sources of the titlebar buttons icons so it's easier to make modifications
-some code cleanups
-drawing of titlebar buttons follows the global contrast settings
Polyester 1.0_beta2:
-Now Gentoo ebuild should work
widget:
-Nicer animation on buttons when the mouse cursor leaves them
-Shadowed text of buttons and menubar configurable separately
-Fixed a bug in the rendering of scrollbar handles
-Don't render dots on scrollbar handle when the handle is too little
-Optimization: lot useless loops in the animation code (i.e. deactivating the QTimer when is not needed :))
deco:
-More Fitts' law friendly: titlebar buttons works also when the mouse cursor is at the top edge of the screen
-No longer draws the round border if the window is maximized
-Uses 16x16 icons in titlebar where available instead of scaling down bigger icons
11 years ago
2.0
-some fixes in build files, links less stuff
-fixed icons on tabbars
-fixed a bug in kcalc
2.0 beta2
-built with cmake is a kstyle, built with qmake is a plain qt style
-some fixes here and there
-corrected a crash with qt webkit
-corrected a graphical glitch with textboxes in Plasma
Polyester 1.0.5:
-compiles with gcc 4.3
Polyester 1.0.4:
-Corrected some visual glitches in ksnapshot
Polyester 2.0 Beta1:
-some graphics fixes
-some build system fixes
-translations should be ported
Polyester 1.0.3:
-Polish translation by Tomek Argasiński
-Italian translation
Polyester 1.95:
The widget set it's more or less complete, there are still some issues and i didn't tried all the combinations of configuration options, so some of these can still be broken :)
Polyester 1.90:
This is the first public releases of the qt4/kde4 port of polyester, some important notes:
-First of all it must be considered a very early alpha quality code not intended for everyday use, it could blow up your computer or eat your cat, use at your own risk :P
-as i said is not very stable and probably not all configuration option works
-at the moment there is only the style, i don't know if or when i will port the window decoration
-it can be compiled with cmake (and you will need a kde4 snapshot o do so) typing
cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=whathever you want
make
make install
-or with qmake (you will need only qt4 with devel package, but you won't get the configuration dialog)
in order to use qmake you must go in the style subfolder and type:
qmake qmake.pro
make
make install
-probably i won't release another release tarball for quite some time, but if you're curious there is a bazaar repository at http://launchpad.net/polyester
Polyester 1.0.2:
-corrected a bug in the configuration dialog (centered tabbars)
Polyester 1.0.1:
mostly a bugfix release
-corrected a build problem with automake 2.6+
widget:
-better management of the menu stripe width
-another hack for gtk-qt: the menu stripe is always off (yeah, it's a broken solution but it was managed too bad...)
-when both toolbar separators and menubar emphasis with border are turned on don't draw an extra line under the menubar
deco:
-when the focus policy is set to "focus follows mouse" the bad flickering should be done (need some testing)
-corrected a bug that caused the windows not being completely painted when kcompmgr is activated
Polyester 1.0:
This will be more or less the final version for Qt3/KDE3, apart some fixes for the garzillions of terrible bugs I'm sure that are still there :)
widget:
-With colored scrollbars option turned off, the scrollbar handle has colored extremities on mouse over (similar to the Ubuntu theme)
-In the configuration dialog "Menus and toolbars" was misleading, now it's "Advanced"
-nice circles instead of asterisks in password lineedits. Idea from Daniel Molkentin http://daniel.molkentin.de/blog/index.php?/archives/59-Password-shadowing-Pimp-My-Plastique.html (will probably be the default in KDE 3.6 btw)
-default button highlight when animations are disabled
-alphablending (yes, fake of course:)) at the corners of the popup menus
-corrected a bug in the sliders aspect
deco:
-titlebar buttons icons have a cleaner aspect
Polyester 1.0_rc1:
widget:
-less (and bigger) dots on QSplitters
-button like menuitems works with transparent menus
-menu stripe works with transparent menus
-entirely redesigned the configuration dialog (should be more usable)
-a lot of code cleanups in the configuration code
-light gradient in the progressbar blank area
-corrected an ugly rendering bug in the QGridView headers
-corrected a rendering bug in the slider with reverse layout
-minor cosmetic changes to the following widgets:
-scrollbars
-sliders
-default buttons contour
-spinboxes
-inactive tabs
-better mouse over highlight with checkboxes and radiobuttons
-border of buttons and other 3d widgets
deco:
-option to make rectangular titlebar buttons (at the moment is the default)
-antialiased titlebar buttons border
-redesigned the configuration dialog to be similar to the style configuration
-added svg sources of the titlebar buttons icons so it's easier to make modifications
-some code cleanups
-drawing of titlebar buttons follows the global contrast settings
Polyester 1.0_beta2:
-Now Gentoo ebuild should work
widget:
-Nicer animation on buttons when the mouse cursor leaves them
-Shadowed text of buttons and menubar configurable separately
-Fixed a bug in the rendering of scrollbar handles
-Don't render dots on scrollbar handle when the handle is too little
-Optimization: lot useless loops in the animation code (i.e. deactivating the QTimer when is not needed :))
deco:
-More Fitts' law friendly: titlebar buttons works also when the mouse cursor is at the top edge of the screen
-No longer draws the round border if the window is maximized
-Uses 16x16 icons in titlebar where available instead of scaling down bigger icons
janet
14 years ago
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vlatko27
14 years ago
please help,
vlatko
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beli0135
14 years ago
Installed rpm for SuSE 10.1 and?
What with it? Polyester doesn't appear in themes.
Sorry for being stupid, but how to use it?
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mart
14 years ago
(see http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/#kde35)
I fear you will have to build it yourself :-(
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beli0135
14 years ago
OK.. everything passed OK.
However, I still do not know how to use it. How to change my theme to it, as there is nothing in theme manager.
Please explain. Some documentation would be nice also.
Thanks
Emil
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mart
14 years ago
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petar
14 years ago
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liviopl
14 years ago
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dentharg
14 years ago
It should be polyester-1.0_beta1.ebuild
Otherwise you can't create digest and emerge it.
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mart
14 years ago
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sbenitezb
14 years ago
An Office 2007 screenshot. I like the way those buttons look.
http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/jensenh/images/547376/original.aspx
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Lethe
14 years ago
I really like the way scrollbar/menu spacing etc. is adjustable - I hate big widgets :-)
One small bug... in the [configure...] of the style, if you only adjust a spin box or color and [OK] the apply button doesn't become active. I found I had to toggle a checkbox to get it to happen.
Other than that - perfect (even more perfect with the colour scheme 'coffee' gotten from here)! This is the style/theme I have been looking for.
Thanks,
Nick
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cabbitgrrrl
14 years ago
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14 years ago
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HessiJames
14 years ago
i don't know, who's 'fault' this is, but when i set the header of a list view to 'not clickable', polyester still colors the first column like a sorting column.
btw. thanks for this great style. greetings hessi
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PARENA
14 years ago
QPainter::setPen: Will be reset by begin()
KCrash: Application 'kcontrol' crashing...
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.
Very weird. I'm using GCC 3.4.5 here (3.4.6 at home).
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mart
14 years ago
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PARENA
14 years ago
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14 years ago
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PARENA
14 years ago
Anyway, there's a small bug when you have maximized windows and rounded corners. The corners are a bit broken. You can see the rounded corners as well as the non-rounded once. Try it out. You can see it especially well when you only have a window maximized vertically.
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mart
14 years ago
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screemo
14 years ago
Could you possibly make an option to move the close button more to the upper right corner, so that when windows are maximized, you can close them by moving the mousepointer all the way to the last pixel of the upper right corner and still hit the button ?
Now there's like 1-2pixels, and you have to move back to click the close button.
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suslik
14 years ago
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screemo
14 years ago
This is indeed both a kwin and widget-style, maybe you should take a look at the descripton. Or maybe even try it before commenting ?
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suslik
14 years ago
Widget style is awesome, but
who in a right mind would call that abomination 'win deco'?
That is what I meant - for all intents and purposes, Polyester is only a widget style. But, a demn good one!
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