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Smooth Blend

KDE 3.x Window Decorations

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

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Description:

Smooth Blend - a smooth blending of the window background color into the titlebar.

This is my first attempt at a KDE window decoration.
Any comments would be much appreciated and can be posted here or sent to my email.

NOTICE:
For anyone installing over the beta or 1.0 that used the rpm, be sure to remove the old one first:

rpm -e smoothblend-beta2
-or-
rpm -e smoothblend-1.0

If you get errors about an unknown signature when installing the new rpm, the rpm is signed by Scott Grayban and you should follow the directions on his rpm site to add his key http://rpm.borgnet.us/10.1/ or rpm -iUvh --nosignature smooth-blend-1.1-1bgn.i586.rpm.

If you have his key, the normal install is:
rpm -iUvh smooth-blend-1.1-1bgn.i586.rpm

For both the tarball or rpm version, you need to issue this command after you install:
kwin --replace &
or simply logout and back into kde.

Credits:
spasemunkie: for his buttons
bitwit: for his kwin_template
David Johnson: for his example kwin tutorial
thomas12777: for answering questions on getting pixmap buttons into code

Thanks to sgrayban for testing and hosting the file download.

Last changelog:

14 years ago

1.2 release
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Changelog:

Added Yoper version 2.2.0-6 RPM.

Fixed button animations when moving the mouse off a button and the mouse button is pressed.

Currently it can be checked out in kde svn under trunk/playground/artwork/smooth-blend/

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kriko
12 years ago

Is it possible to make buttons touch corners, when application is maximized? That way I could close it, by driving cursor in top right corner. Now I have to reposition cursors every time.

knowheretorun
11 years ago

cool idea, but isn't this limitation of kwin, that you can close window while clicking on close button area only?

kriko
11 years ago

But some decorations (kwin) have close button right in corner when maximized, so closing window is easy.

infopipe
13 years ago

There is a bug when using xcomposite and the smooth-blend deco, see:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118029

I switched to plastic in the meantime, but I would really like to use smooth blend again.

rnc
14 years ago

Very nice, like this its now my permanent work theme.

Does anyone else get:

QMetaObject::findSignal:smoothblend::smoothblendClient: Conflict with KDecoration::keepBelowChanged(bool)

in their xsession log? I am using Mandrake 10.2

p0z3r
14 years ago

Those signals are different between kde 3.1 and 3.2+. It is a warning and should be safely ignored for now.

joaquin
14 years ago

Hi... i like so much this theme and i use it in my Gentoo Linux. Thanks for made this work!!

I would like change the background colors in buttons and to select between gradient or solid fill. For example, if a have a title bar red, i would like have a yellow background button with gradient to orange. Or if i want a very high contrast only in buttons, i can use title black with button color white, fill solid.

Regards

zammi
14 years ago

Hi, Is it possible to implement vetical alignment option (Top, Center, Bottom) to buttons as well.

DiThi
14 years ago

I like this win deco, but you should add one pixel above the button as active part of the button so you could clic maximized window buttons when mouse is in the screen edge.
Things in upper screen edge = infinite height; things in corners = infinite area. More area = easier to click.
It's a basic usability principle, that's why a lot of mac users hate win style menus: those are not at the edge of screen.

p0z3r
14 years ago

Although it isn't fixed in the download posted here on kdelook, this should be possible in the 3.5 alpha. Just make sure that you check the box located here: Control Center->Desktop->Window Behavior->Moving->Allow moving and resizing of maximized windows

linker
14 years ago

On FC4 you can always erase the lines on the configure script that check for the blacklisted compilers.

It worked for me.

p0z3r
14 years ago

I'll make that change for the next release. I have about two more things I need to fix before I call this finished.

esycat
14 years ago

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83130#c4
Updated for 1.2 ebuild.

mooselix
14 years ago

Beautiful style, but:

---

checking whether gcc is blacklisted... yes
configure: error:

This particular compiler version is blacklisted because it
is known to miscompile KDE. Please use a newer version, or
if that is not yet available, choose an older version.

Please do not report a bug or bother us reporting this
configure error. We know about it, and we introduced
it by intention to avoid untraceable bugs or crashes in KDE.

---

Why blacklist my compiler? That is absolutely inane. Please remove this restriction.

p0z3r
14 years ago

This decoration is using the default configure script that is used in KDE. What distro are you using? I may be able to make it work for you, but I need more info about your setup and compiler version.
Try:
gcc --version

mooselix
14 years ago

Thanks!

Fedora Core 4

gcc (GCC) 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

p0z3r
14 years ago

Posted by another user:
the common way to get around gcc 4.0 problems is to use gcc 3.2, which is also shipped with FC4 (it's in a package called "compat-gcc-32").
Use:

> export CC=gcc32
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make

wwwonka
14 years ago

...use Smooth Blend with Fedora 4 but it won't compile with the default install of gcc-4.0.0.8. What a shame.

p0z3r
14 years ago

Fox Linux is baed on Fedora Core 4 and it uses Smooth Blend as the default deco, so there must be a way. Do you have an error that's occuring?

rvirga
14 years ago

p0z3r: configure complains that gcc 4.0.0 is blacklisted, and stops:

> checking whether gcc is blacklisted... yes
> configure: error:
>
> This particular compiler version is blacklisted because it
> is known to miscompile KDE. Please use a newer version, or
> if that is not yet available, choose an older version.
>
> Please do not report a bug or bother us reporting this
> configure error. We know about it, and we introduced
> it by intention to avoid untraceable bugs or crashes in KDE.

wwwonka: the common way to get around gcc 4.0 problems is to use gcc 3.2, which is also shipped with FC4 (it's in a package called "compat-gcc-32").
Use:

> export CC=gcc32
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make

to build.

- Roberto

p0z3r
14 years ago

That's probably the case then since I am using the kde admin/Makefile.cvs/configure.in.in to make the package.
There's not much I can do about that since I'm trying to get this into 3.5.

sgrayban
14 years ago

I updated the rpm for MDK 10.2.

I no longer make the 10.1 rpm's.

pawer
14 years ago

The sources link is broken.

DavidA
14 years ago

One of the nicest decos for kwin. The reason why I don't use it, is that the "keep in foreground" button status is not clearly to recognise. The difference between the too states is just too little. Maybe you could change it into a simple triangle or something...

p0z3r
14 years ago

I'll see what I can do.

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14 years ago

1.2 release
------------
Changelog:

Added Yoper version 2.2.0-6 RPM.

Fixed button animations when moving the mouse off a button and the mouse button is pressed.

Currently it can be checked out in kde svn under trunk/playground/artwork/smooth-blend/

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