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Update of Polyester 2

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Published an updated version of the polyester widget style for Qt4/KDE4. Actually it was a pretty long time i didn't touch that, but was too lazy to release the last state somewhere :)

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Sent from mart on 14/07/2008 at 14:38:50 — comments: 3Digg it



4.1 times more Prettyness

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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1:

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Sent from mart on 01/06/2008 at 10:15:58 — comments: 54Digg it



A simple way to test Plasma themes

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Some time ago when testing the code that draws the svg themes in Plasma (like applet backgrounds, panels and tooltips) i wrote a very simple plasmoid that its sole purpose was to test that code, its very uninspiring name was SvgPanelTest, because surprise surprise it was a test for the class named SvgPanel:P
It turns out this applet can be actually useful also for theme designers that wants to test the themes they're doing without killing plasma all the times.

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Sent from mart on 23/03/2008 at 20:52:30 — comments: 16Digg it



Crisp Plasma dialogs borders

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Since yesterday The border of plasma dialogs like the clock popups have got rounded borders also when the composite is disabled, just like tooltips before,ok not a big deal.
But what is changed is that before tooltips shape was an hardcoded rounded rectangle with a fixed shape and an also hardcoded white border and that kinda sucked...

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Sent from mart on 06/03/2008 at 19:31:47 — comments: 0Digg it



Polyester 2 beta 1

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made a new release of polyester 2 to attest that i still love it, grab it while it's still hot :P

Sent from mart on 17/02/2008 at 20:59:35 — comments: 0Digg it



Pretty tooltips

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Tooltips with compositingJust made plasma tooltips to look like this. Oh btw, the artworks are still temporary :)

Sent from mart on 07/02/2008 at 22:35:31 — comments: 1Digg it



OsNews Focus shift and comic plasmoid

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Focus Shift I had recently given some love to the comic plasmoid, now the comic can be resized, there is a link on the bottom right of the comic that opens the comic of that given day in the web browser and the data engine now supports the "comic" OsNews Focus shift Oh, what fine piece of "art" :D

Sent from mart on 03/02/2008 at 19:29:38 — comments: 0Digg it



Some commits to Plasma

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new plasma desktopToday you will find the plasma desktop looking something like this. This after some commits I did today that fixes two things.

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Sent from mart on 23/12/2007 at 17:49:39 — comments: 0Digg it



Another alpha of Polyester 2

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I am very busy this period, so it's some week I don't touch a line of code :(
So today having a more or less free day, I've decided to finally release the last installments of Polyester and Tastymenu I had sitting on my hd by quite some time, so now I can return to the boring stuff :P
Polyester 1.95

Sent from mart on 11/10/2007 at 19:39:38 — comments: 0Digg it



First alpha of Polyester2

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So I've decided to stop procrastinating and release a first alpha of Polyester 2 into the wild :) you can get it here

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Sent from mart on 30/08/2007 at 17:34:23 — comments: 0Digg it