alvanx

Benjamin M.

Hi, I am alvanx and I create Plasma Color Schemes.

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Plasma Color Schemes

Ordinary Green

Plasma Color Schemes Jun 13 2013

7.4

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Plasma 4 Extensions by megabigbug 18 comments

Love the widget! Been using it for over a year. One suggestion: How about a refresh button in the context menu?

Thanks a lot! - May 17 2014

mouse-swap

Plasma 4 Extensions by pru 3 comments

Perfect, that was the problem. Somehow it didn't actually get installed the first time around. Thanks a lot! :-) - Dec 24 2013

mouse-swap

Plasma 4 Extensions by pru 3 comments

Hi, I'm really excited about this plasmoid, been using a shortcut to mouse settings for years!

But I don't know if it is working. I installed it though GHNS and can't find it among the plasmoids through search. - Dec 23 2013

BasKet Note Pads

Utilities by kelvie 347 comments

Oh that would be awesome. Though it seems like they still haven't made up their minds.

If I can add one more item to your wishlist: online sync so I can use the same software on different systems. :-) - Dec 20 2013

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Hey jimmy88,
hope you're doing alright?

I would bet so many of your fans here just cannot wait to get compatibility with the latest Firefox.

Thanks again for your tremendous and masterful work with this theme! - Sep 24 2013

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Next to the download buttons to the right on this page is actually an option to subscribe. That way, you can receive email notifications with every update. (If you can't find it, just search the page for "subscribe" with your browser's search function.) - Sep 18 2013

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Any word on the update? Thanks so much! - Aug 14 2013

makePDF

Dolphin Service Menus by mlgiessing 1 comment

I've tried it and it works great!! Thanks for providing this.

One question: Is it possible to specify the OCR language? Thanks! - Aug 05 2013

discburner

Plasma 4 Extensions by djustice 1 comment

Looks great from the pictures! :) Could you provide it in a way that it can be installed through GHNS? - Jun 22 2013

KParts Plugin

Browser by fischer 139 comments

Dear dev,
kparts-plugin is pure magic. I cannot believe how it enhances my productivity in Firefox. I just love the power of KDE. Thank you! - Jun 22 2013

KParts Plugin

Browser by fischer 139 comments

You could just keep it disabled (no restart required in Firefox) and then enable it when you have a pdf to look at. I do that sometimes. - Jun 22 2013

BasKet Note Pads

Utilities by kelvie 347 comments

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=basket-devel&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=201303

Now the maintainers are actually planning to announce that it was abandoned. Really hope somebody will pick it up - and maybe rewrite it in Qt5?? :-) - Jun 22 2013

KWeshTuNotes

Notes by kahal 10 comments

Is KWeshtuNotes still alive or are there any plans to continue it? Thanks a lot. - Jun 19 2013

Switchable Graphics

Various KDE Stuff by admiral0 12 comments

Thanks! I use Kubuntu right now, and it installed fine after I installed libpci-dev.

How does Switchable Graphics work regarding power consumption? Can it/does it turn off the card that is not being used, or does it run both at all times? The biggest benefit for me would be to have a GUI for switcheroo. Or, does it require both cards to be activated, and what it does is just to set which is going to be active?

One more question: Is left-click on the icon in the system tray supposed to do anything?

Thanks a lot. - Jan 10 2013

Switchable Graphics

Various KDE Stuff by admiral0 12 comments

Hi, could you provide some compilation instructions (even better: packages!) for the less adept among us? Thanks a lot. - Jan 10 2013

openBibleViewer

Education Apps by metaxy 24 comments

Care to provide a package for Ubuntu 12.10? Thanks a lot! :-) - Jan 09 2013

Eventlist

Plasma 4 Extensions by geflei 298 comments

This fixed it, thank you. Great widget.

There is one more thing I noticed. The options dialog window is way bigger than it needs to be.

Thanks for your great work. - May 16 2012

Eventlist

Plasma 4 Extensions by geflei 298 comments

Great, thanks, works now!

I have one issue now: The widget claims that Akonadi isn't running when it is. It worked right when I added the widget, so the problem seems to be that eventlist doesn't recognize when akonadi is started.

Thanks! - May 12 2012

Eventlist

Plasma 4 Extensions by geflei 298 comments

Hi, I'm excited to try out this widget, but all the opensuse 12.1 packages are for KDE 4.7. Is there any way to provide a package that works with 4.8 (and akonadi 1.7?) Thanks! - May 10 2012

openBibleViewer

Education Apps by metaxy 24 comments

0.6 looks very promising. If 0.7 comes with SWORD support (as indicated in the changelog on git), that will be great! One question: How can I install TheWord modules, in particular on Linux? The module installer only helps to install Zefania XMl texts.

Small request, but how about an openSUSE 12.1 repo? Thanks and good work! :-)
- Dec 08 2011

Veromix - volume control / soundmenu

Plasma 4 Extensions by nik3nt3 269 comments

Thanks for the reply, I hope it will help.
When I try to start the service manually, I get "Failed to create secure directory: Keine Berechtigung [no rights]
main loop". The service doesn't appear to be started. I also don't have pulseaudio running. But I guess right now I don't want to take the trouble to switch over. Maybe another time. - Oct 14 2011

Veromix - volume control / soundmenu

Plasma 4 Extensions by nik3nt3 269 comments

Are you building the openSUSE package as well? If so, I have to say that it doesn't have all (or any?) of the dependencies sorted out. I am glad you had them listed here. I had to pull in swh-plugins and python-kdebase4 (which is the package that has the plasma-scriptengine-python) manually. Also, Veromix runs twice in my system tray, and the only thing I can get it to display was amarok playback information. I thought I might have to set pulseaudio as phonon-backend, but I don't find packages for that, so I must be wrong. How can I get it to display more than playback information? And how can I reduce it to 1 instance? Thanks! Can't wait to see on my own system what veromix can do. - Oct 13 2011

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Ok, never mind! It worked when I first disabled Oxygen KDE, but now it's not working again! Must be something else. - Jun 23 2011

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Oxygen KDE seems to blame that the add-on Bar Tab Lite (the FF 4-5 version of Bar Tab) isn't working. Bar Tab Lite offers a huge advantage when you start FF with the last session, as it only loads those tabs that you activate. It saves a lot of startup time (and memory) when Firefox only loads 1 or 2 tabs at startup in contrast to 40, and at the same time. The Oxygen KDE theme seems to somehow disable this function.

I tried to deactivate different add-ons to see which of them was to blame, and to my surprise, it ended up being the Oxygen KDE theme. With FF having become such a memory hog, it is not going to be viable for me to use FF without Bar Tab. Is there any way you could verify this problem is caused by Oxygen KDE and work things out so I can use your theme again? I really like it. - Jun 23 2011

Smaragd (Emerald for KDE)

Various Plasma Theming by skulptor 131 comments

The SUSE download link to the build service doesn't find anything. - Jun 15 2011

Konstruktor

Graphic Apps by segfault87 28 comments

I installed Konstruktor beta from openSUSE KDE 4.6 playground. It asked me for the library, so I downloaded the .zip and unzipped it to /home/user/.LDraw/ldraw. I also added the updated parts file. Now Konstruktor crashes at startup after I selected that path. After I click away Dr.Konqui, I get a popup saying "Could not scan LDraw part library."

Here's the backtrace:
Application: Part database updater for Konstruktor (konstruktor_db_updater), signal: Segmentation fault
[KCrash Handler]
#7 0xb5f1aeba in __strstr_ia32 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8 0xb778455b in strstr (this=0x81c7b20, name=0xb7792bff "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object") at /usr/include/string.h:335
#9 ldraw_renderer::opengl_extension::opengl_extension (this=0x81c7b20, name=0xb7792bff "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object") at /usr/src/debug/konstruktor-0.9-beta1/src/renderer/opengl_extension.cpp:26
#10 0xb77845cc in ldraw_renderer::opengl_extension_vbo::opengl_extension_vbo (this=0x81c7b20) at /usr/src/debug/konstruktor-0.9-beta1/src/renderer/opengl_extension_vbo.cpp:23
#11 0xb778468e in ldraw_renderer::opengl_extension_vbo::self () at /usr/src/debug/konstruktor-0.9-beta1/src/renderer/opengl_extension_vbo.cpp:17
#12 0xb778637d in ldraw_renderer::renderer_opengl_factory::renderer_opengl_factory (this=0xbfe282ec, params=0x81a10f0, rm=ldraw_renderer::renderer_opengl_factory::mode_vbo) at /usr/src/debug/konstruktor-0.9-beta1/src/renderer/renderer_opengl.cpp:108
#13 0x08057fa9 in Konstruktor::PixmapRenderer::PixmapRenderer (this=0x81a0ee0, width=256, height=256, shareWidget=0x0) at /usr/src/debug/konstruktor-0.9-beta1/src/app/pixmaprenderer.cpp:46
#14 0x08050eaf in Konstruktor::DBUpdater::DBUpdater (this=0xbfe283e0, parent=0x0) at /usr/src/debug/konstruktor-0.9-beta1/src/app/dbupdater.cpp:82
#15 0x08058fed in main (argc=) at /usr/src/debug/konstruktor-0.9-beta1/src/app/main_dbupdater.cpp:35
- Jun 15 2011

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

I don't know if this has been suggested, but one thing you could improve is the position of the indicator arrow when dragging a tab to a different location. This happens when you use tab rows, I don't know if it works right with a single line of tabs, and it may be related to TabMixPlus. Currently, when I drag a tab to a new spot, the arrow appears at the bottom of the row pointing down. This is so misleading that it generally seems as if the tab were to be placed in the row beneath. So one simple thing to do would be to move that arrow up.

Thank you for your great work! :-) - Mar 29 2011

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Same here with FF 4.0! It says the file is corrupted. - Mar 25 2011

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

I took a screenshot and I have to admit that I was wrong. I don't know what made me see this, but I was so sure about it I even left a comment. Sorry and thank you for your reply. - Feb 07 2011

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

I've noticed that RC1 doesn't pick up my color scheme correctly anymore (like the Betas mostly used to). Yes, it still finds that my selection color is green - but for some reason it gives me the wrong shade (at least in some places). I use [url=http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Ordinary+Green?content=107944]these colors[/url] on my system, but Firefox gives me a shiny grass green that is about the shade of the Oxygen reload button.

Plus, in the pop-up that comes up when you start Firefox sometimes and that tells you that there are add-on updates available, uses the default KDE colors and does not pick up on my system colors. - Feb 04 2011

openBibleViewer

Education Apps by metaxy 24 comments

I don't know if you know about this (and I don't know how good it is): http://code.google.com/p/dbst/

Toward the bottom, it says that the library "DSword" is there to help SWORD front-end developers out. Incidentally this software also uses Qt4.

(Just thought it might be helpful.) - Jan 06 2011

openBibleViewer

Education Apps by metaxy 24 comments

Sounds very promising! I'll check back frequently then.

Could you use any help that a non-programmer (but theology student) could offer?

Also, your website seems down.

Alvanx - Jan 03 2011

openBibleViewer

Education Apps by metaxy 24 comments

Hi,

Nice and simple, appealing app! It works pretty well considering its young age, but there is still a ways to go until it reaches feature parity with BibleTime (this is not to say you can't get there). But I especially like the modular interface. Also, it is the only Zefania App that I know that directly downloads modules.

I was wondering if you had any specific plans in terms of the direction of the development. Are there by any chance plans to support SWORD at some point? I realize Zefania XMl is probably easier to support, but SWORD would just be one more step (and many of the Zefania modules don't work)...

Also, I was wondering what kind of app BibleQuote is, and where I can get modules for that.

Thanks! You are doing a good job!

Alvanx - Jan 03 2011

OxyKanotix

Icon Sub-Sets by janet 4 comments

Hey, they look really pretty! Good work! :) - Oct 23 2010

Opaquity

Plasma Themes by Scnd101 17 comments

It looks really promising! Nice work!

You might want to change the screenshots to something lighter. It was hard for me to see a lot of details because the background was almost as dark as the elements. - Sep 29 2010

Hycons

Full Icon Themes by gomezhyuuga1 71 comments

I second hosting it on this site. Great work! :-) - Aug 22 2010

Ordinary Green

Plasma Color Schemes by alvanx 6 comments

Lol, thanks.

I have to admit there's a lot of green. I normally don't use this background. The screenshot is just to demonstrate that the color scheme looks good with openSUSE 11.2 default settings. - Jun 26 2010

Ordinary Green

Plasma Color Schemes by alvanx 6 comments

At first I wasn't sure if that was a compliment ;-)

Thanks though! :-) - Jun 26 2010

QPurple

Plasma Color Schemes by smashse 2 comments

I think the download doesn't work. - Jun 26 2010

Aava

Plasma Color Schemes by daedaluz 2 comments

It looks nice! - Jun 26 2010

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Here you go: http://yfrog.com/bhoxykdeffp
- Jun 11 2010

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Ok that was definitely a brainfart. I had the old version installed and forgotten about it. All good now!

However, I notice that my tab bar with currently 2 rows is wide enough for about 5 rows, and depending on the amount of tabs the position of the rows actually changes. Is this some kind of bug in the theme, or do I have to go hunt for a buggy extension?

Thanks again,
Alvanx - Jun 09 2010

Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by jimmy88 1783 comments

Hi,

It looks great in your screenshots! However, my FF still only looks like any GTK app with this theme. I realize you mentioned to turn off all user styles related to the theme, but I have to confess that I don't know how to do this (or if it even is my problem). Does this refer to styles like QtCurve?

Hope you can help me. Sorry if this has been answered, but the comment sections here are kind of inconvenient to search...

Thanks a lot,

Alvanx - Jun 08 2010

Kfilebox

Network by deuteros 113 comments

Yes it was installed as root (and the command you gave me proved it). I reinstalled it properly and now it works. Thank you very much! :-) - Apr 20 2010

Kfilebox

Network by deuteros 113 comments

Thank you for your help. For some reason my dropbox.py had been within my Dropbox folder (I don't remember what I did when I first installed it). I reinstalled it again according to your instructions and was confused because I thought that the location should be /bin/dropbox.py, to where I installed it. Later I saw (from the last screenshot) that you actually installed it into /home/[user]/bin. Does this make a difference?

I get this output when starting it from a cli:
"$ dropbox.py start
Starting Dropbox...Exception in thread RTRACE:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "threading.py", line 486, in __bootstrap_inner
File "core/high_trace.py", line 434, in run
File "core/high_trace.py", line 391, in rtrace_thread_func
File "core/high_trace.py", line 163, in __init__
File "common_util/osutils.py", line 26, in makedirs
File "common_util/osutils.py", line 34, in makedirs
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/alvanx/.dropbox/cache'

Done!"

And it still doesn't seem to connect after setting up kdropbox right. Is the problem with the folder I put dropbox.py in? Or is it something else?

Again thank you for your help, I appreciate it. - Apr 20 2010

Kfilebox

Network by deuteros 113 comments

Kfilebox

Network by deuteros 113 comments

It looks promising, but I can't get it to connect. Any help or tips there? The default dropbox client connects without problems. Also, Dropbox loads at startup, but that includes the default client, which I would like to avoid. How can I start dropbox without getting the tray icon?
Thanks! :-) - Apr 20 2010

Blue Letter Bible (Not Official)

Plasma 4 Extensions by jmiahman 4 comments

Works great an looks nice! I will probably keep it on my desktop!

Here are a few suggestions:
-it's a little chunky. I don't want a plasmoid to take up an 8th of my desktop, so I sized it down. This would work better if it was designed a little smaller (I don't know if that's possible). Specifically there is a lot of unused space at the bottom.
-Is there a way to display more than max. 4 verses? Or to change the default translation? - Apr 11 2010

Kamelayon

Plasma Color Schemes by Antholinux 15 comments

Your original button color (this: #7B9747 ?) would also look nice as a background for the active selection... - Apr 05 2010

Kamelayon

Plasma Color Schemes by Antholinux 15 comments

It looks a little better in terms of contrast. I have tried it and messed around with it for a while. I don't have webspace to upload it, but I can give you color code. Maybe that will help you understand what I mean. My take might not be the best, but it's what I could come up with for now.
I like a few contrasts, so I made the following changes:
-button background color=window b.c.
-selection text to white
-selection background to maybe something like #858E50 (which is a darker version of yours) or #6C9945 (which makes for a nicer contrast, but deviates from your theme a little), or something in the likes.

What do you think?
- Apr 05 2010