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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



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



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



KDE4 in a Polyester dress

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KDE4 with Polyester2 theme

The Qt4 version of Polyester is coming along nicely, is still too unstable for a first release but i hope an alpha isn't too far.
Here you can see a KDE4 beta1 screenshot as it appears with the Polyester theme.

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Sent from mart on 08/08/2007 at 10:34:55 — comments: 0Digg it



Polyester 1.0.1

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Yeah, it's alive :). Finally i've decided to release a new version of Polyester. it contains only some minor bugfixes, in particular the long-annoying bug with kcompmgr should be gone (sometimes the windows weren't completely painted).

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Sent from mart on 11/05/2007 at 13:25:32 — comments: 0Digg it



Polyester 1.0: finally

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Yes, you read correctly: the 1.0 is ready for download :-D I just fixed the last few items I had in my TODO for the final version of Polyester, and since it didn't seemto explode I decided to release it as 1.0. So I would consider it as "final", except of course fixing critical and oustandong bugs, that as every "1.0" there will be tons of these :-P.

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Sent from mart on 18/12/2006 at 11:48:04 — comments: 0Digg it



Appearance is everything

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Since I've always given too much importance to the superficial appearance, I was very uncomfortable with the default KDE password lineEdit look (that hides the typed characters with asterisks) in contrast to the one of Windows XP or Gnome, where the passord characters are hidden by a bold dot, being...

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Sent from mart on 10/12/2006 at 13:31:50 — comments: 0Digg it



Polyester 1.0_rc1: the end draws near

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New release of Polyester KDE theme available for download!
The default look is changed a little bit, I think for the last time. Many bugs have been squashed and the configuration dialogs are way more prettier and hopefully ...

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Sent from mart on 20/11/2006 at 16:43:59 — comments: 0Digg it



Polyester 1.0 beta2: "if it fails, try again"

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Released today a second beta for Polyester 1.0 that fixes some important issues.
Changelog:
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-Nicer animation on buttons when the mouse cursor leaves them
-Shadowed text of buttons and menubar configurable separately
-Fixed a bug in the rendering of scrol...

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Sent from mart on 01/10/2006 at 18:16:03 — comments: 5Digg it