deKorator

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Description:

deKorator is a themable window decorator for KDE SC 4.x.

You can find over 160 deKorator themes here: http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=21. Additionally, many KDE 3.2+ theme packages include deKorator themes.

The Copyright holder is the original author (Moty Rahamim), I ported it to KDE4, as is allowed per GPL 2+ license. For his KDE3 version, see http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/deKorator?content=31447.

Please use the "Report Bug" help menu item to report bugs and wishes for future versions.

Notes:

* To install a theme, the file must be named "NAME-theme.tar.gz" and contain "deco", "buttons", and "masks" directories inside the "NAME-theme" directory. deKorator 0.5 no longer offers a "Paths" tab to set theme paths individually. If a theme does not install, please report this to the author of the theme..

* I do no longer provide binary packages, most distributions already ship deKorator. Ask them to update.

* To install from source, you need cmake, kdebase-workspace-dev, and libqimageblitz-dev (or similary named). Additionally, you must have the KDE 4 binaries in your path. Use

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde4/bin/
cd dekorator-0.5.1
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
sudo make install

* deKorator is developed in KDE's git repository, see https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/artwork/dekorator

* First screenshot:

- Window decoration: Azenis
- Widget style: Oxygen
- Color scheme: Obsidian coast
- Wallpaper: Air (KDE 4.2)

* Second screenshot:

- Window decoration: Aero-Glass
- Widget style: QtCurve
- Color scheme: modified to give the impression of transparence :)
- Wallpaper: Fields of Peace

* Third screenshot:

- Window decoration: Meno
- Window buttons: Clearlook
- Widget style: Plastique
- Panel theme: Atelier
- Wallpaper: Stonewall2 Pattern

Last changelog:

11 years ago

See visual ChangeLog at http://kdepepo.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/improved-window-themes-with-dekorator-0-5/

0.5.1:
* added support for separate "inactive" images
* removed "hand" cursor over buttons
* fixed resize region with small borders
* fixed possible crash in "No Border" mode
* fixed images cropped instead of scaled
* fixed shaded windows with masks
* fixed "StickyDownPress" image used instead of "StickyPress"
* fixed partial transparency on button backgrounds
* improved detection of manually installed themes

0.5.0:
* added KNewStuff support
* added option to hide frame on maximized windows
* added previews in theme list
* simplified theme handling

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skulptor
12 years ago

Hi moty, the credit and fame goes back to you :)

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Blackcrack
12 years ago

haaaiii motyR,

long time ago :) hey, who was u :)
Welcome back :)

p.s.: please, can anyone make a pack for Mandriva ? *smiiile* Please :}

best Regards
Blacky

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Blackcrack
12 years ago

hy,

a new Shell a new version, version 3.0 it's give, you have make for KDE 4.0 why dont shold be have the Versions-number deKorator 4.0? Fedora anyone have make version 3.3 for Fedora ant you have ported to KDE 4.0 and it shold have now the version 4.0.0 so i think it's in think on moty.. take a look on my folder (it was all copy from Moty's ftp):

http://blackysgate.dyndns.org/~blackcrack/files/

best regards
Blacky

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Blackcrack
12 years ago

p.s.: can you take a look on MDV Cooker
2009 , i think the binarys and libs be
on other place ?

best regards
Blacky

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Thailandian
12 years ago

Thanks so much for porting deKorator.

However, I have found a problem with shading on the KDE4 version.

If I double-click the title bar, initially instead of shading properly, I get a desktop full of titlebars! Then, if I double-click again, I get the proper shaded effect, but it is stuck like that.

The only way to get the window back again is to right-click the icon on the task manager, select "Resize", and move the mouse around on the desktop.

I'm using openSuse 11 with KDE 4.1.

Has anyone else noticed this problem or is it due to some obscure setting I haven't noticed?

I hope you can solve this problem. Please let me know if I can help in any way.

Cheers

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skulptor
12 years ago

Thanks Thailandian for the problem report, I was able to reproduce the effect you described.

Please try setting the "Show bottom border when window is shaded" option on the Misc tab until I have a fix, and let me now if this workaround helps.

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