Pacifica Style
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Pacifica is a minimalist-leaning classicist style based on Qinx by David Johnson. It is intended as a relatively lightweight UI in the tradition of MacOS and NeXT. Included is both a normal flat and highcolor gradient version of the widget style, and two color themes.
Screenshot 1 is Pacifica highcolor style, Pacifica Light color scheme, with ModSystem decoration and iKons icon set.
Screenshot 2 is Pacifica (flat) style, Pacifica Dark color scheme, CDE decoration, Slicker icon set.
Screenshot 3 is the same as 1, but shows off the hicolor menus. The wallpaper is Pippi's Ede-1, but you can't see much of it.
INSTALLATION is the usual ./configure [--prefix=KDE_DIR]; make; make install (as root). You know the drill. Mandrake users who use a high security setting may get the 'QT Libraries not found' error; if that happens run the ./configure --prefix=/usr/ and subsequent make as root.
17 years ago
v.0.12: 6-Sep-2003
* New screenies!
* Fixed incorrect text color on combo boxes, unselected tabs, and menu bar.
* Replaced the gray "Pacifica Light" color scheme with a more Modern-looking color set.
* Added gradients to progress bars and hilighted tool buttons (hicolor mode).
* Added transparent menu support.
* Added compile-time option to use NeXT-style scroll bars instead of KDE style.
* Slight changes to flat-mode menus to reduce etch-stacking and improve visual consistency.
* Added compile option to display unselected tabs in normal color instead of button color.
* Added pacifica/style/styleoptions.h file to manage all these compile options.
v0.1: 4-Sep-2003
* Initial release
17 years ago
v.0.12: 6-Sep-2003
* New screenies!
* Fixed incorrect text color on combo boxes, unselected tabs, and menu bar.
* Replaced the gray "Pacifica Light" color scheme with a more Modern-looking color set.
* Added gradients to progress bars and hilighted tool buttons (hicolor mode).
* Added transparent menu support.
* Added compile-time option to use NeXT-style scroll bars instead of KDE style.
* Slight changes to flat-mode menus to reduce etch-stacking and improve visual consistency.
* Added compile option to display unselected tabs in normal color instead of button color.
* Added pacifica/style/styleoptions.h file to manage all these compile options.
v0.1: 4-Sep-2003
* Initial release
Support-Box
Pacifica Style is part of KDE Themes and Extensions, which is supported by the following people:
Other KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes:
elektroschock
17 years ago
I like that very much.
But please find a better description!
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iPaqTux
17 years ago
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BigRedFish
17 years ago
Somewhat bigger, I added reverse-layout support to the asymmetrical elements like tabs, combos, spin widgets, and so on. Run an app with the --reverse parameter and compare to Qinx.
I agree that this one's a bit too derivative; it would almost be a Qinx patch but I changed way too much code for that. Hopefully I've given the original author enough credit and complied with the etiquette for doing such minor forking. Now I'm working on a new 100%-original style, but it'll be a while before we see a 0.1 of it.
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laughinol
17 years ago
Congrats on your first theme =) ! Now, like all good programmers/ hackers/whatever, get busy on the next release, and woo us with your talents ;-)
Once again--- Great Job =)
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Brandybuck
17 years ago
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BigRedFish
17 years ago
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reignbow
17 years ago
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BigRedFish
17 years ago
I should mention that there are no hard-coded colors in the style; everything is taken from the color settings in kcontrol. Just keep button text and normal text the same color until I fix a menu bar text-color bug. The contrast slider has a lot of power too. Just FYI, everyone.
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