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This is a titlebar-less decoration, inspired by Google Chrome, and
Nitrogen minimal mod
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/KDE+4+Nitrogen+minimal+mod?content=109355).
Instead of the traditional full-width titlebar, a mini-titlebar is
placed at the upper-right corner of the application window --- where
usually is unused by the application menu bar.
Because notebooks today have very wide screens but limited in height,
I think this saving in the vertical space can be good.
Build
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Please following instructions in the INSTALL file.
Usage
=====
Just use the small bar in the top-right corner as your good old titlebar.
Ctrl-MouseWheel grows/shrinks the bar. So if your window title is
really long, you can make the bar wider.
Theme
=====
Begin with v0.1, Chromi uses themes from Aurorae Theme Engine
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Aurorae+Theme+Engine?content=107158).
You can download dozens of Aurorae themes in the configuration UI.
Chromi ships with Scnd101's "Chrome Aurorae" theme
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Chrome+Aurorae?content=119106)
as the default. If you customized the theme SVG files in older
versions, please move SVG files from /usr/share/kde4/apps/chromi to
/usr/share/kde4/aurorae/themes/chrome. Chromi no longer load theme
files from the former directory.
Config File
===========
You can change various settings in the [Engine] section in ~/.kde/share/config/chromirc:
DefaultTitlebarWidth=250
The default width of the mini-titlebar.
MinimalWindowWidth=500
Window narrower than this will use full titlebar. Set it to -1 to disable this checking.
Known Problems
==============
* Full-width titlebar has no hovering effect.
11 years ago
0.2 (2010-02-23):
* Support customized button positions.
Only buttons in the right side are shown.
App icon and shade buttons are not supported yet.
0.12:
* If the initial window width is less than MinimalWindowSize (default is 500), use full titlebar.
* Use Aurorae's KNewStuff file. We used a renamed file (chromi.knsrc
vs. aurorae.knsrc), but then themes installed in Chromi is shown as
uninstalled in Aurorae, and vice versa. Now Chromi installs the
untouched aurorae.knsrc, and only do so when it's not found.
Note all themes previously installed in Chromi will still shown as
uninstalled in Aurorae. You'll need to install them again.
0.11:
* Remember titlebar width settings for each window classes.
0.1:
* Use Aurorae themes
* Revert to traditional, full-width titlebar for dialog and toolbox
windows.
* Ctrl-MouseWheel grows/shrinks titlebar.
* Transparent theme has system color as the background. So you can set
the "titlebar color" in SystemSettings to tweak the tone of the
theme. (Thanks for furumaro's suggestion.)
* Smoothed corners of the titlebar. (Thanks for IkaCoast's suggestion.)
0.03:
* Maximize button uses "restore" image when maximized.
* Use hover/pressed image.
* Fixed preview.
0.02:
Borrowed artwork from Chrome Aurorae
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Chrome+Aurorae?content=119106). Button
animations still missing.
0.01:
A minimal implementation that barely works.
11 years ago
0.2 (2010-02-23):
* Support customized button positions.
Only buttons in the right side are shown.
App icon and shade buttons are not supported yet.
0.12:
* If the initial window width is less than MinimalWindowSize (default is 500), use full titlebar.
* Use Aurorae's KNewStuff file. We used a renamed file (chromi.knsrc
vs. aurorae.knsrc), but then themes installed in Chromi is shown as
uninstalled in Aurorae, and vice versa. Now Chromi installs the
untouched aurorae.knsrc, and only do so when it's not found.
Note all themes previously installed in Chromi will still shown as
uninstalled in Aurorae. You'll need to install them again.
0.11:
* Remember titlebar width settings for each window classes.
0.1:
* Use Aurorae themes
* Revert to traditional, full-width titlebar for dialog and toolbox
windows.
* Ctrl-MouseWheel grows/shrinks titlebar.
* Transparent theme has system color as the background. So you can set
the "titlebar color" in SystemSettings to tweak the tone of the
theme. (Thanks for furumaro's suggestion.)
* Smoothed corners of the titlebar. (Thanks for IkaCoast's suggestion.)
0.03:
* Maximize button uses "restore" image when maximized.
* Use hover/pressed image.
* Fixed preview.
0.02:
Borrowed artwork from Chrome Aurorae
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Chrome+Aurorae?content=119106). Button
animations still missing.
0.01:
A minimal implementation that barely works.
ArneBab
6 years ago
Thank you for this cool project!
Now I’ll just have to find out how to adapt the color to my colorscheme ☺
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thecurseddevil
9 years ago
but the problem comes when there is no menu bar in apps such as calibre and firefox
also is this possible that the decoration automatically resizes to the end of menu bar (i.e 'help')while resizing,max.,min etc?
i mean that wud be great!
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dee2er
9 years ago
Everything worked great using Kwin but with Compiz the little titlebar and buttons are generally drawn just below where they should be, sometimes they are drawn in a random place and sometimes not at all. Aurora decorations on there own appear normally as do native deco's like Oxygen.
Otherwise, outside of my experience using Compiz, Chromi is awesome. Thanks for your great work.
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biophysics
10 years ago
rya@rishi:build > make
[ 0%] Built target kwin3_chromi_automoc
[ 11%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/kwin3_chromi.dir/kwin3_chromi_automoc.o
[ 22%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/kwin3_chromi.dir/factory.o
[ 33%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/kwin3_chromi.dir/client.o
[ 44%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/kwin3_chromi.dir/button.o
[ 55%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/kwin3_chromi.dir/themeconfig.o
Linking CXX shared module ../lib/kwin3_chromi.so
[ 55%] Built target kwin3_chromi
Generating config.moc
[ 55%] Built target kwin_chromi_config_automoc
[ 66%] Generating ui_config.h
[ 77%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/kwin_chromi_config.dir/kwin_chromi_config_automoc.o
[ 88%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/kwin_chromi_config.dir/config/config.o
/home/rya/delete/kwin-deco-chromi/src/config/config.cpp: In member function ‘void Aurorae::AuroraeConfig::slotGHNSClicked()’:
/home/rya/delete/kwin-deco-chromi/src/config/config.cpp:622: warning: ‘Engine’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/KDE/KNS/../../knewstuff2/engine.h:44)
[100%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/kwin_chromi_config.dir/themeconfig.o
Linking CXX shared module ../lib/kwin_chromi_config.so
[100%] Built target kwin_chromi_config
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BenderBendingRodriguez
10 years ago
There is just one quirk though, in system settings it covers the search but no biggie i LOVE IT OVERALL
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genericity
10 years ago
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BenderBendingRodriguez
10 years ago
And if someone knows how to install chromi then he definitely doesn't need search box :)
P.S. Sorry for polluting this thread but i am so grateful for this app, i even consider that it should be default on every system (after rebuilding some things of course) but what can i do :)
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BenderBendingRodriguez
10 years ago
http://anpn.de/aurorae-0.2.0.ebuild
There it mentions a gentoo specific fix, any idea how i could apply it?
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genericity
10 years ago
You need to open the file src/CMakeLists.txt, replace ${KDE4WORKSPACE_KDECORATIONS_LIBS} with kdecorations in the 3rd line. So it should look like:
target_link_libraries(kwin3_chromi ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS} ${KDE4_PLASMA_LIBS} kdecorations ${X11_X11_LIB})
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BenderBendingRodriguez
10 years ago
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okias
7 years ago
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BenderBendingRodriguez
10 years ago
cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kdecorations
I am using gentoo and KDE 4.4.1
Any idea how to fix it?
I looked for that string in all the files but i didn't find it anywhere.
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genericity
10 years ago
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TheRob
11 years ago
I do have a question regarding the second
ss tho.
The taskmanager seems to have launcher support, so what taskmanager is it in
the panel?
//Robert
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genericity
11 years ago
http://github.com/jinliu/plasma-superbar-cxx
The launchers are from your Kickoff favorites.
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TheRob
11 years ago
I'm guessing there is no settings window
atm right?
also, I know it's prolly not even supposed
to work under this version:
Platform Version 4.4.64 (KDE 4.4.64 (KDE 4.5 >= 20100220))
but it does :D it just stretches over the
whole panel, which judging from your ss
isn't supposed behaviour.
however, I'm gonna use this taskbar, I have
been waiting too long for something like
this to come around not to make use
out of it!
one more thing, the "box" or "button"
doesn't appear in a running task when
starting it... just after re-starting
plasma... ...in kde trunk.
too bad they have to change the api
this much within plasma for each version.
you prolly use kde stable right?
sorry for the long and boring post.
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genericity
10 years ago
However, I'll abandon that attempt, and try to add launcher support to panzi's Smooth Tasks (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Smooth+Tasks?content=101586) instead. It has much more features than my pet project.
You can try the first result here:
http://bitbucket.org/jinliu/smooth-tasks/get/a82d04ea9e6b.gz
There's a lot of pieces missing (pin/unpin/tool tip/etc.), but I'm now pretty sure they are not so hard to implement.
BTW: Only tested on 4.4.1. Hope it works on your KDE trunk :-)
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stribianese91
11 years ago
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echoes
11 years ago
OpenSUSE 11.2 x86_64
KDE 4.4.0
Compositing Enabled
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genericity
11 years ago
Make sure to upgrade *-dev packages to 4.4, delete the "build" directory, and build from scratch. Hope this can fix the problem.
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stribianese91
11 years ago
I'm using this ppa ppa:samrog131/ppa for installing chromi, but the version 0.11 hasn't the title bar! Is this your PPA?
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genericity
11 years ago
I changed the window embedding code so that may be the problem. Could you try this version to see if it works:
http://github.com/jinliu/kwin-deco-chromi/tarball/v0.11a
I reverted the change in the above version.
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stribianese91
11 years ago
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tpdi
11 years ago
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
to
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
The file INSTALL lists dependencies as kdelibs6-dev and xorg-dev; I used kdelibs5-dev, but had to additionally install kdebase-workspace-dev.
I compiled and am using chromi under Kubuntu Karmic (9.10).
I note that on my Atom netbook, some Aurora themes make window drawing noticably slower than other themes do.
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genericity
11 years ago
Most of processing power is spent on SVG rendering. This makes Chromi (and Aurorae) slower than other "hand-drawn" decorations. It's especially evident in window resizing, where a lot of repainting is going on.
Perhaps we can make an alternate version whose rendering code is based on Oxygen. Should work better with netbooks.
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