[From nobody Sat Aug 10 21:39:52 2019 Received: from max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.170.93]) by suncom.rz.hu-berlin.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA27763; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:03:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (list@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de) by master.kde.org id <S221629AbQGZRAi>; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:00:38 +0200 From: Matthias Kalle Dalheimer <kalle@dalheimer.de> Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Klar=E4lvdalens?= Datakonsult AB To: kde-announce@kde.org Subject: KDE now supports pixmap gtk themes Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:00:02 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.61] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0007261900023T.32491@owl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Old-Return-Path: <kalle@dalheimer.de> Resent-Message-ID: <nWLSD.A.IS.2kxf5@max> Resent-From: kde-announce@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de Reply-To: kde@kde.org X-Mailing-List: <kde-announce@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> archive/latest/474 X-Loop: kde-announce@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de Precedence: list Resent-Sender: kde-announce-request@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:00:38 +0200 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Hi KDE enthusiasts, the KDE team (in personas Mosfet and Brad Hughes) has struck again and implemented another notable feature: KDE now supports gtk pixmap themes! This means that you can use the wealth of gtk pixmap themes on your KDE desktop, and even better, these themes will be displayed faster than in native gtk. Here's the scoop. For a nicer version with screenshots, please go to http://www.kde.org/announcements/k3c-announce.html. Have fun, Kalle Dalheimer for the KDE team ------------------------------------------------------- If you have had the opportunity of using a recent KDE2 beta, you may know that KDE2 has supported widget themes for quite a while now. You may have noticed that these themes are fast. Really fast. And even those themes using pixmaps and gradients run at a decent speed, thanks mostly to Qt's excellent theming-engine and our optimized pixmap storage and cache mechanism. n addition to native KDE2 themes, we are pleased to announce that KDE now supports GTK pixmap-themes. However, while GTK themes are displayed faster and more efficiently than even native GTK itself, we do not recommend using this format for creating new themes. Theme developers should prefer KDE2's native widget theming which yields superior results both in terms of quality and speed. A nice HowTo and some documentation on KDE2 theming is available at http://www.mosfet.org/themeapi/. In KDE2, icons are themable as well. A nice application of this feature can be seen if you start KDE2 on an 8-bit color display. In this case, KDE will automatically default to a carefully crafted icon theme based on a 40-color palette: 216 extra colors are left for the more color-greedy applications. Of course, on a true color display, you would get the hi-color icon theme. The size of the icons can also be easily changed. Just right-click on the toolbar handle, and you'll find a menu with a selection of various icon sizes. Or change the icon size in other locations or globally from the KDE Control Center. This way you can make optimal use of your desktop space and monitor. Also notable are the various icon effects. These include levels of greyscaling, highlighting, colorization, saturation/hue, semitransparency... and the ability to customize the behavior and appearance of the icons in all the various states (MouseOver, default, disabled) and locations (desktop, toolbars, menus, panel). In fact, if you are creative enough, you can do such things as make Konqueror look like Netscape. Or Internet Explorer. Or make it look like something entirely different. While these are aesthetic features, they can also be quite important from a usability point of view. For example, if you are an artist or graphic designer, you may not want your icons to look too colorful. In fact, if at all possible, you'd want to work in a color-neutral environment. Well, with KDE2, you can switch all your icons to grey quite easily - and if you want a colorful desktop to impress your friends, it is just a click away! ]