Skulpture
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Skulpture is a GUI style addon for KDE programs. It features a classical three dimensional artwork with shadows and smooth gradients to enhance the visual experience.
Skulpture has been designed to be light and easy on eyes; many distracting borders or graphical elements have been removed or replaced by simpler artwork. See NOTES and README for additional information.
Skulpture is released as source code under the GNU GPL version 3 license; see INSTALL for installation instructions and COPYING for additional information.
Gentoo build kindly provided by Franz Fellner, Thanks! For binary packages, please check with your distribution.
9 years ago
New in 0.2.4:
This version fixes two crashes and other bugs visible with KDE 4.4. Updating is recommended.
Bugfixes:
* fixed possible crash when destroying MDI windows
* fixed possible crash when destroying menus
* fixed Tab key handling in Konversation
* fixed detection of default font (KDE 4.4)
* fixed menu item rectangle and input handler (Qt 4.6)
* fixed text rendering in vertical ProgressBar
* fixed frame in "east" TabWidget (Qt 4.6)
* fixed workaround for KIntNumInput size bug (KDE 4.4)
* fixed MDI window title placement with RTL layouts
* fixed ToolBar icon size to respect KDE setting (KDE 4.4)
* fixed single click mode to respect KDE setting (KDE 4.4)
* fixed vertical centering regressions (Qt 4.6.1)
* fixed vertical alignment of labels in FormLayout (Qt 4.6.2)
* fixed flashing of ScrollBar in PlacesPanel
* fixed widget flags in KWin window decoration client
* fixed menubar margin for improved full-screen usability
* fixed "Alternate Background" color in Skulpture color schemes
* fixed build warnings (KDE 4.3)
* fixed build failure with Qt 4.1
See NEWS for changes in previous versions.
9 years ago
New in 0.2.4:
This version fixes two crashes and other bugs visible with KDE 4.4. Updating is recommended.
Bugfixes:
* fixed possible crash when destroying MDI windows
* fixed possible crash when destroying menus
* fixed Tab key handling in Konversation
* fixed detection of default font (KDE 4.4)
* fixed menu item rectangle and input handler (Qt 4.6)
* fixed text rendering in vertical ProgressBar
* fixed frame in "east" TabWidget (Qt 4.6)
* fixed workaround for KIntNumInput size bug (KDE 4.4)
* fixed MDI window title placement with RTL layouts
* fixed ToolBar icon size to respect KDE setting (KDE 4.4)
* fixed single click mode to respect KDE setting (KDE 4.4)
* fixed vertical centering regressions (Qt 4.6.1)
* fixed vertical alignment of labels in FormLayout (Qt 4.6.2)
* fixed flashing of ScrollBar in PlacesPanel
* fixed widget flags in KWin window decoration client
* fixed menubar margin for improved full-screen usability
* fixed "Alternate Background" color in Skulpture color schemes
* fixed build warnings (KDE 4.3)
* fixed build failure with Qt 4.1
See NEWS for changes in previous versions.
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May 04 2019
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Jul 30 2013
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DnS
10 years ago
Add an option to hide menus icons.
( yeah i hate icons :p )
Using your theme with "Chrome" colorscheme is really pleasant to work : very clean :)
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skulptor
10 years ago
Regarding color schemes, Skulpture is designed to be used with a non-white View color so that highlighting works. But I am glad you like it with your setup :)
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JohnnyJupiter
10 years ago
this may sound pathetic, but your theme became the main reason for me to switch from gnome to kde.
this is the most beautiful theme for linux i ever experienced, i tried a lot over the years, xfce, gnome themes, and they all have something indescribable odd.. i would say, your theme should be a good example for the whole community and i wish there was a way to port this to gnome, simply to have under kde a perfect integrated system-look when using gtk-apps....
well, what can i say?
thanks to you 1000 times
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skulptor
10 years ago
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JohnnyJupiter
10 years ago
Well, the longer I experience KDE the more I like it. Now it is KDE who is convincing me to bite the dust. I got tired of those visual GNOME-glitches and I myself tried to make some nice themes in GTK but well, the concept of GTK.. I can not get satisfaction with that in long term. I think KDE and Skulpture go very nice together and actually look better then Mac and Vista, it is simply original and very desciplined / professional looking.. Now I wouldn't say that live is easy on KDE during transission time... I am learning.. BUT I need some GTK-apps for sure and gtk-qt-engine is very buggy. no buttons, no combo-boxes, no scrollbars, u name it.. drop-down-menus are black with black fg, making it unusable. so i am stuck now with qtcurve and tried in a hurry to set it up in a way that it fits to your theme, but well, it's not ideal... i could not find any relevant answers to my problem with gtk-qt-engine... do u know a better solution by any chance? thanks in advance...
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SeaJey
10 years ago
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JohnnyJupiter
10 years ago
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SeaJey
10 years ago
And it would be Skulpture, no?
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dnasthegreat
10 years ago
My one request: It'd be really nice if the window decoration did the same blue focus glow that Oxygen does. It's my only regret about switching the window decoration.
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skulptor
10 years ago
If your only concern is the large space Oxygen windeco needs, you might have a look at http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Nitrogen?content=99551
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undo
10 years ago
I compiled your style on FreeBSD 7.1 yesterday and ran into two small bugs:
1. In the KDE system settings, the style is listed as "Sculpture", not "Skulpture".
2. I use the GTK-Qt theme engine to make all GTK applications use Qt widgets and blend in nicely with KDE. This works with all other styles but with Skulpture, Firefox (the GTK app I use most) crashes on start-up with a floating point error. It must be some calculation going wrong in the style somewhere, raising a signaling NaN or generating a similar exception.
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skulptor
10 years ago
Regarding the divide by zero error in the gtk engine: use the version from svn. The bug has long been fixed, but a new version was not released.
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undo
10 years ago
In the meantime, I have tried the newest snapshot from your homepage (0.2.2.1) but the floating point error in Firefox3 persists. I even went as far as rebooting after installing 0.2.2.1 to make sure there was no old version of libskulpture.so lingering in memory.
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skulptor
10 years ago
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tail
10 years ago
New version looks really great! I love the small subtle changes you made, and especially the not to subtle changes to Radio boxes ans Option boxes.
I was wondering if now is the right time to update my port of your theme. Are you expecting any larger changes in the near future or is this pretty much the way it is going to look from now on?
I also have another question: could you be bothered to include a small precompiled demo application which shows all widgets with their look for all states? For KDE4 is still not as easy as for 3 to set up a development environment, find dev packages for you distro, install Kdevelop4, etc. Or if you already know of such an application. This would make things easier for people wanting to port it while not having to either go though the surprisingly huge code or though dozens of dialogs in different applications and shouldn't be more complicated than dropping some widgets on a window and setting some properties (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Thank You
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skulptor
10 years ago
As for the demo application, I just use Qt Designer to try different widgets.
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mirrec
10 years ago
but i want to ask you if there is some possibility to have progress bar in the "normal" way :)
i upload image to better understanding.
http://img11.imageshack.us/my.php?image=prorgesbarsu2.jpg
it would be perfect if we can set up behavior of progress bar in configuration (i was looking for that but i don't find it)
if it is already possible please let mi know :)
thanks a lot :)
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skulptor
10 years ago
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cimi86
10 years ago
http://code.google.com/p/arora/issues/detail?id=256
Another small issue (I don't know if that depends on the graphic intel driver) is that sometimes the close button, just the close button, disappears from the window decoration until I hovered it again.
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skulptor
10 years ago
Regarding the rendering error: If you use the intel driver, remember that intel has several problems when used as the secondary X session. Also, maybe you are using Compiz? If you can reproduce with vesa driver using KWin, please paste a screenshot. But I doubt it is a Skulpture problem, because the close button is not special, except it is red :)
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cimi86
10 years ago
It's just like the symbol is not drawn, hovering it will make it reappear again. Could be a bug in the intel driver, the strange thing is that it happens only on *that* button, other symbols never disappeared.
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skulptor
10 years ago
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dpinelo
10 years ago
First, thanks for your great job. It's really cool.
I have a problem trying to open QtDesigner 4 (4.4.3), if your style is enabled in my KDE 4.1. I get a segmentation fault due to a cast detected on libQtCore. Maybe a bug?
Thanks!
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skulptor
10 years ago
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skulptor
10 years ago
If you find something that could be improved, even if you think that it is a small issue, please add a comment. Either here, or use my blog http://kdepepo.wordpress.com/. There is also a Skulpture thread at forum.kde.org, if you need to paste pictures to show problems.
For those who want rounded buttons, I maybe should remind you that you can have them since Skulpture 0.0.3 :) Just find the line that says "k *= 0.1;" in src/skulpture.cpp and replace the number with a higher value (0.2 ... 0.9).
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