chris:b Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Made my own superkaramba theme, with some mdk icons, and telling you you are on Mandrake 10.0 ;-) You need: Mandrake 10.0, KDE, this superkaramba rpm: http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/mdktest...100mdk.i686.rpm and my theme: http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/mdktest/anna_mdk.tar.gz Unpack it to wherever you wish to, run superkaramba, open: anna_mdk.theme I've included a readme file, how you change some settings. It's meant for not too dark (or grey) desktop backgrounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 And an example of my desktop: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Added some more features to my first Superkaramba theme: - a calendar - output of the IP adress - a clickable area that opens www.mandrakeusers.org in konqueror (single click when the theme is locked, double click if not) - two versions by changing the background image (one transparent, one semi-transparent), for dark and light desktops Minor changes in fonts display. The name of the theme is now: kara_mub ;-) Download: (21 kb) http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/mdktest/kara_mub.tar.gz attachment: how it looks on a darker desktop ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 (edited) ... and on a light desktop: Edited August 2, 2004 by anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 very nice anna! i especially like the mandrakeusers.org link in it ;) unfortunately i'm not a KDE user, so I prefer gdesklets :sad: but i like it anyways! keep up the good work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Thanks, tyme /me too lazy to try a different DE :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 gdesklets is DE unspecific ;) looks the same under KDE, GNOME, fluxbox, anything else....doesn't need DE specific libs like superkaramba ;) but blah, it's still nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Had to upload a new version, because there was a small bug in the theme that would cause a high CPU load ;-) It's corrected now, in both themes. For those who want to keep the old one, please edit the theme, and change the line 14: karamba x=80 y=60 w=230 h=500 interval=500 locked=false to: karamba x=80 y=60 w=230 h=500 locked=false thus delete the: interval=500 Each sensor already has its own interval set Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 anna this i s really nice work, I am having too much phun just messing with the config file and seeing what happens. Great work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 (edited) Glad you like it, xbob. :-) And yes, it's fun to play with it! And sooo easy. Here is a new version, for PC Linux OS. Changes: - different icons - different OS, click & go to pclinuxonline.com - two .theme files included now, transparent and semi-transparent bg, so it's easier to load without editing the .theme - new clickable area, the red icon in the calendar section will launch korganizer Example on a blue bg: Edited August 2, 2004 by anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 (edited) ... and on a light bg: edit: forgot to post the download link, grab the theme here: http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/mdktest/kara_pclos.tar.gz Edited August 2, 2004 by anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 very nice. thanks anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Excellant... Thanx, gonna give it a shot this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 I've just tested my themes on a Suse 9.1 system, Suse 9.1 one CD download edition. Works as it should :-) You need: - The superkaramba-0.34-2.i386.rpm - get it on kde-look.org: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=12746 - If you have the one-cd-download ed. of Suse, you need to setup an additional ftp source in Yast, it's the main /i386 of the official Suse ftp. superkaramba needs a 14 MB python package on Suse from this source (or your cd) - then I added my local dir where I stored the downloaded rpm also to the Yast software source. I was having a hard time to find the installed superkaramba. Geez, the executable is located: /usr/local/kde/bin/superkaramba (funny for a mandrake-only user like me ...) Add it to your application menu, no entry was made after the installation. Unpack my theme to your home/$user/whatever_dir_you_like Start superkaramba, open: the xxx.theme which you find in the just unpacked dir. I'll make another but similiar theme the next week, with some home build icons. I just learned how to create *good looking* icons with The Gimp, glancing and a sort 3D effect. Like these: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 (edited) The attachments are gone :o I made some buttons with The Gimp, but I think they are a bit boring when integrated in the themes :unsure: Think that I'll stick with the professional looking icons! And after testing the theme on Slackware/SLAX (looks great) I better customize it for SLAX. p.s. curious if it will work when I attach three files into the post ;-) Edited August 2, 2004 by anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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