PaT

Patrice Tremblay , Canada

Hi, I am PaT and I create Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements, KDE 3.5 Themes and Noatun Skins.

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Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements

KDE UI Tweaking

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements Oct 27 2004

Score 50.0%

Konqueror GUI Ideas

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements Oct 16 2004

Score 50.0%

Better leds for konqy

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements Oct 16 2004

Score 50.0%

KDE 3.5 Themes

Lipstik

KDE 3.5 Themes Oct 01 2007

Score 50.0%

Noatun Skins

Sophistik

Noatun Skins May 25 2003

Score 50.0%

test

QtCurve (KDE4, KDE3, & Gtk2 Theme)

QtCurve 2890 comments

by CraigD

Score 82.9%

Jan 16 2013

Alright, 0.56.2 fixes the problem. Also, no output at all when starting from konsole (with and without newFirefox=true in the config file).

Thanks a lot! - Feb 27 2008

Hi Craig!

I am getting a lot of error messages from Firefox 3 when using QtCurve:

(firefox-bin:17268): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkArrow' to `GtkContainer'

(firefox-bin:17268): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_add: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed

(firefox-bin:17268): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_realize: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (widget) || GTK_IS_INVISIBLE (widget)' failed

(firefox-bin:17268): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_set_ts_origin: assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed

(...)

(firefox-bin:17268): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_arrow: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed

etc.

Also, the "down arrow button" of the drop-down location bar widget is not drawn. It is drawn correctly when using gtk's default theme. I have not tested with other GTK themes though... Oh! and it is drawn correctly when customizing the toolbar !? Go figure... :)

Info:
Distro is some kind of Arch Linux...
cairo is 1.5.8
glib2 is 2.14.6
gtk2 is 2.12.8
qtcurve is 0.56.1
firefox is 3.0 (beta4, 2008.02.25).

Bye! - Feb 26 2008

This style is simply the best out there. The drawing routines optimizations that went into this release are really noticeable. I use the "nv" drivers (not the closed-source ones) and I get a major drawing speed boost.

Thanks :) - Aug 25 2006

Yep! Now builds perfectly :) Thanks... Great work as usual by the way! Bye! - Jun 15 2006

But in fact, when you 'make' the gtk2 directory, it builds, it is the gtk1 directory that fails, even though it is just a redirect to the gtk2 dir. - Jun 15 2006

There are a lot of warnings but this is the error:

../gtk2/qtcurve.c:3478: error: 'struct qt_data' has no member named 'app' - Jun 15 2006

Kommander

Developers Apps 57 comments

by sequitur

Score 50.0%

Nov 02 2009

Well, just to contradict the claims above, i will take this short moment to thank Mr. Laffoon for his hard work. I've used Kommander on many occasions in the past and always liked it a lot. I can't wait to play with the new features. I also donated 10 bucks right away to help maintain the development of this wonderful piece of software.

Sincerely, ATU (Anti-Troll Unit).

And while i'm here, a little question ;)
Are transparent icons on eg. push buttons looking nicer nowadays? They used to look quite bad. It would be a nice touch to make Kommander scripts look better... - Feb 26 2008

Lipstik

KDE 3.5 Themes 347 comments

by PaT

Score 50.0%

Oct 01 2007

Stay tuned ;) - Jan 24 2008

Hmm... You still run KDE 3.0.6? Thats why. Plastik windeco changed in between KDE 3.4 -> 3.5 (or 3.3 -> 3.4, i cant remember). - Jun 08 2006

Thanks!
WinDec: It's Plastik, the KDE default. - Jun 07 2006

Hmmm... I will take a look at this... I did not noticed that the stripe rendering had changed... New version coming soon. - Apr 17 2006

Nice idea, will try to do this soon... - Mar 18 2006

You are right there is a problem with the build system in Lipstik 2.2... Look for an update soon here... or just use the Debian's package source of Lipstik 2.2.1. (A not yet published anywhere else but in Debian Lipstik release fixing this bug.) - Mar 18 2006

This is Bitstream Vera Sans... - Mar 18 2006

Will think about it... but i fear the configuration will get much too crowded... - Mar 18 2006

Do you mean the half-rounded selected menubar highlight? - Mar 18 2006

I have not been able to make it work... I guess it will have to wait until a Qt4/KDE4 port where the rendering capabilities will be more advanced. - Mar 18 2006

Its the Composite extension with KDE's kompmgr at work. You need to enable it in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and then in KWin configuration panel. Its nice but not quite fast/stable enough for eveyday use, yet. Consider this for now as a nice marketing trick :) - Mar 18 2006

Hi!

These are known problems, I am currently looking into fixing them (as soon as i can).

Thanks for the report. - Mar 14 2006

That behaviour is wanted... I want to match Qt4's plastique style with regards to scrollbars (which they supposedly took from lipstik in the beginning... so...) - Dec 10 2005

Nice idea... I will check out if its possible... - Dec 08 2005

You are right! Stay tuned. - Dec 08 2005

What is your distro? Are you able to build it?

Evil: Try making a symlink named automake-1.8 to your current automake-$VERSION. - Dec 06 2005

Looking at this output, i think you should set your computer clock to tommorow, then rebuild lipstik, and reset your clock. - Dec 06 2005

Thanks! - Oct 31 2005

Thanks a lot! - Aug 30 2005

Well... I dont know debian a lot but I think you should install the kdelibs-devel package. - Aug 19 2005

Oops, thank you for the report. Will be fixed in the next version. - Aug 12 2005

All good suggestions! Thanks!

But can you explain a little bit what you mean by label highlighting? - Aug 04 2005

The navigate icons are coming from Crystal Clear. I use a custom mix of many icon themes. Mainly Nuvola, Crystal (KDE, SVG 1.0, and Clear), Glaze, NuvoeXT...
Now the 'trick' for the view buttons is that the toolbar containing the navigation icons is the "location" toolbar. The "main" toolbar is used to display some basic icons (show panel, new tab) and the rest comes from the 'merge' of the various kparts (kfm, khtml, kate, etc.).
For the rest, like the 'LIX' kmenu button, you could maybe try kbfx. I sadly never had the chance to try it, but from what i can understand, it easily allows you to use a custom kmenu button.
The color-scheme is Lipstik White.
The windec is plastik. (an old version... I still use an old KDE 3.4 beta from february's CVS... never crashed once... :) - Aug 01 2005

And by the way... the Qt4 port is purely vapourware now... But I promise it will be out before Longhorn. :) - Aug 01 2005

This will mostly be a big rewrite and the first Lipstik to support Qt3 AND Qt4. - Aug 01 2005

A-foto (afoto)

Karamba & Superkaramba 142 comments

by trebol-a

Score 50.0%

Jun 06 2007

Just a quick note to tell you I love this little applet!

Keep up the great work!

PaT - Jan 30 2007

Autostart Manager

Utilities 43 comments

by smileaf

Score 50.0%

Dec 26 2006

Maybe you will find this interesting:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=116920800320602&w=2

And they mention your app here (in the same thread):

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=116924533130243&w=2 - Jan 22 2007

Primary

Full Icon Themes 22 comments

by dannya

Score 67.1%

Jun 18 2018

Very nice and consistent...

This is very complete, there is even an icon for kwave!

Keep up the great work! - Oct 11 2006

Cursor Parking Lot

Wallpaper Other 4 comments

by Axminster

Score 50.0%

Sep 26 2006

Fun! My cursor likes it :) - Sep 26 2006

Gregorian to Mayan Calendar Convertor

Various KDE Stuff 17 comments

by S4mdfOo1

Score 50.0%

Oct 15 2006

Funny app :) - Sep 25 2006

kmime2mozilla

Browser 7 comments

by gustavo

Score 50.0%

Apr 08 2005

Works perfectly with Firefox 1.5.0.6 on Slackware 11.0. - Sep 14 2006

murder windows2

Wallpapers Windows 4 comments

by manolomx

Score 50.0%

Sep 13 2006

Yay, violence is so funny...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/09/13/montreal.shooting/index.html - Sep 14 2006

KTorrent

Network 199 comments

by George666

Score 86.3%

Jan 17 2013

Wow, just works perfectly. Has all the features. And the interface is now very very good. Summary: KILLER APP!

Keep up the nice work! - Aug 09 2006

Ultimate Guitar

Amarok 1.x Scripts 8 comments

by j35u5

Score 50.0%

Aug 01 2006

It's working quite nicely for me over here... And as an amateur guitarist, I love this function! Just wanted to let you know! Thanks! - May 22 2006

ghost

Wallpaper Other 5 comments

by safin

Score 50.0%

May 07 2006

To me, it looks more like Alien's head :) - May 08 2006

KGtk (Use KDE Dialogs in Gtk Apps)

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements 453 comments

by CraigD

Score 76.7%

Nov 03 2011

Hmm... just realized there is a great KDE app for torrents, ktorrent... So this might not be that important anymore :)

Have a nice day! - Mar 08 2006

Thanks for the fix with Gimp 2.3...

But now, I have another problematic app... :)

I tried it with Bittorrent 4.4.0 and it works ok, the only problem being the file dialog will not show the second time. Meaning, it (the file-dialog) opens the first time you use it, but not second...

Bye! - Mar 08 2006

Tried it with the GIMP 2.3 and file-open dialogs are ok. The problem i get is with saving dialogs... where all gimp saving options are not shown...

I guess it is quite hard to translate those functions to a kdialog... eg. I have a foo.xcf that i want to 'save as' test.png. In GIMP i would normally just type test.png and hit save, it would immediately send me to the png saving options dialog, but the kdialog asks me if i want to overwrite foo.xcf and then saves the file as test.xcf (should be test.png...)

If I hit cancel when GIMP asks me to overwrite foo.xcf, it then sends me to the png saving options dialog and after saves the file as test.png... - Mar 06 2006

KDE HAL Device Manager

System Software 19 comments

by jriddell

Score 50.0%

Jan 08 2006

Great! It "works for me". On Slackware 10.2. The only problem seems to be the separator between the tree view and the content view; its not working as it should. But maybe this is more about PyQt or something. Anyway, very good for a 0.1 release! Cant wait to see some more tuning.

Thanks. - Jan 05 2006