


Karamba & Superkaramba by spartak 15 comments

Fonts by bink 9 comments
Once saved, browse to where you saved it, right click on the font icon and go to the 'Actions' sub-menu, choose Install. KDE will ask if you want to install for yourself or for the entire system; if you have access to the root password, you can install for the system, else, you'll have to install locally.
There are harder, command-line ways of doing this, but this is KDE, and KDE makes font installing easy. ;) - Dec 15 2005
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
if len(sys.argv) >= 2:
  the_path = sys.argv[1]
else:
  the_path = '.'
for path, dirs, files in os.walk(the_path):
  for f in files:
    f = os.path.join(path, f)
    print 'Touching %s ... ' % f,
    os.system('touch %s' % f)
    print 'DONE.'
sys.exit(0)
I could use bash/shell, but I was prefer the python version. - Dec 06 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by saki 62 comments
Nice looking icons, but how come the default folder icon is blue and all the rest of the special icons (Documents, etc) are brown? Makes for a not-so-attractive mismatch. - Nov 21 2005
I always kind of liked the way that WindowMaker handled windecs, where you can tile, stretch, etc an image, plus have gradient and color 'over lays' to further change the appearance. Either way, I am also a firm believe that windecs should hide the bottom window handle when the window is shaded, or at least make it optional.
Anyways, nice work, glad to see someone doing this. - Nov 18 2005

Karamba & Superkaramba by sg1 29 comments
Bah, nevermind. :P I just never used an skz file with superkaramba before.
/me shrugs - Nov 02 2005

Karamba & Superkaramba by sg1 29 comments
WTH is a .skz file? - Nov 02 2005

Various Stuff by elgx 19 comments
I've had graphic glitches (appears to be corrupted video memory) ever since I moved from Gentoo to Hoary (and now also in Breezy) on any windec that I install myself, regardless of correct prefix or not, however, this is only at work, where I am working on an integrated Intel i810 video adapter. At home, on my nVidia 5200FX card (and using nvidia drivers) I have no issue.
I posted about this on the (k)ubuntu forums several months ago and never got any replies. I just gave up and now use the included 'Glow' windec. Not as pretty, but I gotta get my work done. - Nov 01 2005

Wallpaper Other by wmaddler 5 comments
(Note: I'm a writer (though sadly not super successful yet!) so deal with copyright issues quite a bit for my own knowledge and safety.) - Oct 28 2005

Wallpaper Other by wmaddler 5 comments
Don't mean to sound bad, but that is generally how it is. - Oct 28 2005

Wallpaper Other by wolveen 8 comments
I call what I drive to work my Car, not my Ford/Car, even though a lot of the pieces 'under the hood' are indeed, Ford made pieces.
I give respect to Stallman, because he *has* done a lot for F/OSS, but the whole silly "It has to be *GNU*/Linux!" thing is just...silly. - Oct 28 2005
See the Grover windec (still one of my faves) for I personally think all windecs should handle shading. :) Essentially, we don't need the bottom window frame when in shaded view.
Otherwise, great work! It's different and nice over all! :) - Oct 21 2005

Arcade by arendjr2 8 comments
I've tried both versions, and neither works. Don't have time to bother with it, though would like to try the game. I wish you had used the standard automake ./configure package. - Sep 08 2005

Wallpaper Other by valleyman86 3 comments
Wow, that REALLY turned out well. I just grabbed your 1280 version and it looks absolutely great with my gradient colors behind it.
Thank you for taking the time to do this! - Sep 08 2005

Wallpaper Other by valleyman86 7 comments
'Cept that you'd have to do that whenever a color change was required.
If you use alpha transparency and save as png, you can have semi-transparent drop shadows. Check out some of the wallpapers that are in the kde-artwork package as well as some of the wallpapers here. I used semi-transparent drop shadows all the time in my gimp/photoshop created wallpapers, but is that possible in your rendering app?
RGBA ftw. :D - Sep 07 2005

Wallpaper Other by valleyman86 7 comments
I'd love to see this without the white background, but transparent so a user can choose which color background they want to show through. Is that possible with what you are rendering with? - Sep 06 2005
I have to admit, I did not like Mallory much when you first released it. The windec was just not my taste, but this latest release with the Square Buttons and such, I am really liking it now. Maybe I just changed in a few months time, but either way, good work! :D - Aug 30 2005
Laugh all you want, but I think this is pretty nifty, after having read "Cryptonomicon" by Stephenson, where he goes into detail about how the Enigma machines worked, how that extra 4th dial makes the encryption much harder to break. Thank goodness we broke it. ;) - Aug 25 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by kasra23 10 comments
Interesting idea. Personally, I think desktop icons are evil ;-) but for those who chose to use them, I can see where this idea could come in quite handy.
I'd like to see this idea added to the KMenu, since the KMenu versions are less than optimal. :-/ - Aug 20 2005

Karamba & Superkaramba by bonafide 66 comments
This is one of the few SK themes I'd use. (SK is great, but I just don't need all the monitors which seem popular. ;)
I hope to see this one evolve as well, opening chat windows, letting me know if I have a new message, etc...
The only big problem I found was that if you close Kopete, the theme doesn't seem to notice and hangs. - Aug 15 2005
Audio Extractors/Converters by viron 79 comments
Better yet, use:
kde-config --prefix
Last I heard, $KDEDIR is being depreciated for setup and configure scripts. - Aug 06 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by sirajr 613 comments
Ahh, I see now. I had to restart my kicker for the button applet to resize itself, however. Maybe you need to call updateLayout() after the image in painted, so that the kicker can resize itself as needed. - Jun 15 2005

KDE 3 Color Schemes by sniper 4 comments
This would look great with the QTCurve style (since it has more options than regular BlueCurve). - Jun 14 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by sirajr 613 comments
This is a nice applet.
A few suggestions for future versions:
- A setting to control width. I made my own (boring, white text, all transparent) button, but I don't need it as wide as the applet makes it.
- Your config dialog is broken, as it comes with no window decorations, etc. I'd suggest using a KDialogBase to create the dialog, since it comes with sensible defaults. - Jun 14 2005

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by jirie 6 comments
Depending on your linux distro, it might have gotten installed in the wrong place.
What does 'kde-config --prefix' tell you on the command line? It should have gotten installed in the directory returned by that command, but when you ran configure, it might have gotten the wrong path, which sometimes happens.
Trying doing this:
./configure --prefix="`kde-config --prefix`"
...note the back-ticks inside the double quotes. :) - Jun 14 2005

Cursors by croky 16 comments
What's with the dots in the middle of each? In my opinion, it takes away from the Celtic design. They are also a bit too blue for me (I prefer lighter/whiter cursors, but that is personal pref, of course. ;) ) but otherwise, they are definately nice and different. - Jun 03 2005

KDE 3 Color Schemes by amiroff 7 comments
This is rather nice, for yet another blue based color scheme. I like the not-too-gray widget colors, especially with the QTCurve style. I downloaded yours and modified mine to use Orange/Yellow for titlebars and highlighted text, but otherwise, quite the nice blend. :D - May 19 2005

Wallpaper Other by Jumlin 4 comments
rc1 is very nice. I still have a few problems with some text fields in Konqueror rendered webpages always having a white background but the foreground color is still whatever the CSS specifies. Make it hard to read what is being typed in some fields, but the only one I remember off the top of my head is at the World of Warcraft forums.
Still, great looking style and good work! Thanks. :D - Apr 15 2005

Wallpaper Other by ahmethungari 1 comment
That can not be free for use. It uses a copyrighted image and even fair-user provisions do not cover sharing that wallpaper. - Apr 11 2005

Icon Sub-Sets by ivanciko 6 comments
It's not a 'dummy post' -- it's a legitimate concern. You can't say the license is GPL, because legally, it can not be. All he was saying is that you can't license other people's work on the GPL -- for that matter, you can't even *share* these icons under most copyright law without the copyright holder's permission, since it doesn't fall under fair-use. - Feb 18 2005

Cursors by an10ae 9 comments
I tried installing this, but KDE Control Center said it does not appear to be a valid mouse theme. - Feb 17 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by ccimiluca 11 comments
WinDec doesn't have any mouse events, so it can't get in the way of things.
How about another option: Scrolling over the title-bar changes the desktop, but bringing that window with you. IE: I am on Desktop 1, but want my Konsole window on Desktop 2. I could right-click to do so, or if I have a graphic pager, drag it to that desktop -- or with this option, I could put my mouse over the title bar and scroll until I am on Desktop 2.
I used scroll events in KClip (here or at kde-apps.org) to do desktop switching, so the actual code is really simply. (I was new to C++/QT at the time.) - Feb 04 2005

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by spasemunkie 23 comments
Have you used the Grover windec? It has an option ("plastic" iirc) to looks kinda something like this, except for the buttons. The buttons are nice. - Jan 25 2005

KDE 3 Color Schemes by bego 1 comment
These are very bright colors. I'm not 100% sure why, but I suddenly got a flashback to the 80's. ;) - Dec 08 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Dgege 165 comments
Um, no you don't. I have my Applet Handles turned-off as well, but if you let your mouse hover over where they are, especially towards the bottom (my kicker is at the top of screen) or top, the applet menu will appear. If you want, I can take a screenshot of this. :D
If you can't tell where the Applet Handle is, well, that's a different story, but I have no trouble finding mine. - Nov 23 2004
Hit Control-R sometime in a bash prompt. It allows searching of past commands, type a few letters and it'll match them automatically.
For example:
In my konsole window, I hit ^R and type 'nano':
(reverse-i-search)`nano -w': nano -w .ssh/known_hosts
I'm not saying this app isn't nice or anything. For me at least, and I suspect others as well, I can type and use the built-in bash CLI commands faster. :) - Nov 03 2004
This had to be a heck of a code job, even in python. (w00t for the python!)
However, I can't see the usefulness of it; I type faster and with bash-completion, I can do commands much more faster than I can with point-n-click. If the purpose was to teach CLI commands, etc, I might see the use, but like you said, you still have to know the CLI well.
I just can't see people being fast enough on the mouse to make this exceedingly useful. - Nov 02 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by wireframe01 22 comments
Then might I humbly also suggest KClip for a try? I made it for the same purpose, to take back some Kicker space, 'cept that I use mouse buttons/scroll wheel to change (though I normally use hotkeys, I just needed a way to tell which desktop I was on.)
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12202
I really do need to updated it again, for new KDE's, but the version that is one this site is the one I still use myself. :) - Oct 31 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by cjacker 45 comments
Because he specifically says so? ;) And he makes no mention of [Super]Karamba at all? - Oct 22 2004

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by cjacker 45 comments
But it's *not* possible, unless he *totally* hacked the Kicker code. This is not a theme, this is a hacked screenshot, nothing more, and I have a strong feeling that is all that it'll remain. - Oct 22 2004