Description: Widget style + kwin decoration both aimed to be a good balance between eye candy and simplicityLast changelog:
2.0 -some fixes in build files, links less stuff -fixed icons on tabbars -fixed a bug in kcalc
2.0 beta2 -built with cmake is a kstyle, built with qmake is a plain qt style -some fixes here and there -corrected a crash with qt webkit -corrected a graphical glitch with textboxes in Plasma
Polyester 1.0.5: -compiles with gcc 4.3
Polyester 1.0.4: -Corrected some visual glitches in ksnapshot
Polyester 2.0 Beta1: -some graphics fixes -some build system fixes -translations should be ported
Polyester 1.0.3: -Polish translation by Tomek Argasiński -Italian translation
Polyester 1.95: The widget set it's more or less complete, there are still some issues and i didn't tried all the combinations of configuration options, so some of these can still be broken
Polyester 1.90: This is the first public releases of the qt4/kde4 port of polyester, some important notes: -First of all it must be considered a very early alpha quality code not intended for everyday use, it could blow up your computer or eat your cat, use at your own risk -as i said is not very stable and probably not all configuration option works -at the moment there is only the style, i don't know if or when i will port the window decoration -it can be compiled with cmake (and you will need a kde4 snapshot o do so) typing cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=whathever you want make make install -or with qmake (you will need only qt4 with devel package, but you won't get the configuration dialog) in order to use qmake you must go in the style subfolder and type: qmake qmake.pro make make install -probably i won't release another release tarball for quite some time, but if you're curious there is a bazaar repository at http://launchpad.net/polyester
Polyester 1.0.2: -corrected a bug in the configuration dialog (centered tabbars)
Polyester 1.0.1: mostly a bugfix release -corrected a build problem with automake 2.6+ widget: -better management of the menu stripe width -another hack for gtk-qt: the menu stripe is always off (yeah, it's a broken solution but it was managed too bad...) -when both toolbar separators and menubar emphasis with border are turned on don't draw an extra line under the menubar deco: -when the focus policy is set to "focus follows mouse" the bad flickering should be done (need some testing) -corrected a bug that caused the windows not being completely painted when kcompmgr is activated
Polyester 1.0: This will be more or less the final version for Qt3/KDE3, apart some fixes for the garzillions of terrible bugs I'm sure that are still there widget: -With colored scrollbars option turned off, the scrollbar handle has colored extremities on mouse over (similar to the Ubuntu theme) -In the configuration dialog "Menus and toolbars" was misleading, now it's "Advanced" -nice circles instead of asterisks in password lineedits. Idea from Daniel Molkentin http://daniel.molkentin.de/blog/index.php?/archives/59-Password-shadowing-Pimp-My-Plastique.html (will probably be the default in KDE 3.6 btw) -default button highlight when animations are disabled -alphablending (yes, fake of course:)) at the corners of the popup menus -corrected a bug in the sliders aspect deco: -titlebar buttons icons have a cleaner aspect
Polyester 1.0_rc1: widget: -less (and bigger) dots on QSplitters -button like menuitems works with transparent menus -menu stripe works with transparent menus -entirely redesigned the configuration dialog (should be more usable) -a lot of code cleanups in the configuration code -light gradient in the progressbar blank area -corrected an ugly rendering bug in the QGridView headers -corrected a rendering bug in the slider with reverse layout -minor cosmetic changes to the following widgets: -scrollbars -sliders -default buttons contour -spinboxes -inactive tabs -better mouse over highlight with checkboxes and radiobuttons -border of buttons and other 3d widgets
deco: -option to make rectangular titlebar buttons (at the moment is the default) -antialiased titlebar buttons border -redesigned the configuration dialog to be similar to the style configuration -added svg sources of the titlebar buttons icons so it's easier to make modifications -some code cleanups -drawing of titlebar buttons follows the global contrast settings
Polyester 1.0_beta2: -Now Gentoo ebuild should work widget: -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 scrollbar handles -Don't render dots on scrollbar handle when the handle is too little -Optimization: lot useless loops in the animation code (i.e. deactivating the QTimer when is not needed )
deco: -More Fitts' law friendly: titlebar buttons works also when the mouse cursor is at the top edge of the screen -No longer draws the round border if the window is maximized -Uses 16x16 icons in titlebar where available instead of scaling down bigger icons
Subject: Libreoffice crashes in KDE 4.7.2 (kubuntu 11.10) when Polyster style is enabled
Hi Martin,
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43563
When polyster style is enabled then Libreoffice crashes. I have filed a bug in Libreoffice and they have told me that the bug lies with Polyster style. The following is the comment by one of the developers there.
Lubos Lunak 2012-01-16 08:55:37 PST
The bug is in the style. Function PolyesterStyle::drawComplexControl()
dereferences the widget pointer argument in the CC_ToolButton case even though
Qt documentation says the argument is optional and can therefore be NULL.
You'll need to report to the style developers.
I have switched to uglygen today, because i realized that polyester is what made openoffice (go-openoffice in arch linux) crash all the time on startup.
Krita also crashes using polyester, but in kde apps the style can be set as an argument (--style <style>). That is not possible with OOo, which i unfortunately needs to run.
According to krita devs, polyester can not handle their costum spinbox. I do not know what the problem is with OOo, except it is affecting the main application window of any OOo app i tried starting.
I hope this can be fixed, as polyester is my all time favorite!
Hullo,
at least in 2.0 there is a problem with coloured text in tabs — like e.g. Konversation uses.
This is the biggest complaint I have about this, otherwise great, style.
I downloaded the polyester 2.0 for kde4 and found no kwin decorations of polyester.
Please, I hate the Oxygen kwin deco and like the polyester best. bring the polyester kwin decoration back to KDE4.
Thanks for all.
i'm in kubuntu 8.10 with kde 4.2 and i want a constant look for both qt and gtk+ apps so i'm currently using QtCurve which looks like Polyester and is available for both gtk+ and qt (i do hope Polyester can have a gtk+ port, too), and Crystal kwin 2.0.3.
i want to have polyester kwin for kde4 as an alternative when i ever find Crystal kwin boring. currently i can only get the polyester widget style from compiling the source code, but not the kwin for kde4. why?
Hi, Turning off icons on buttons had the side effect that web page icons are not on konqueror tabs anymore, which I believe is wrong. (oxygen does show them)
This is with the kde4 beta version.
I wasn't aware that there's a Qt4 version of Polyester! Yay!
This theme is definitely unmatched, and I'm definitely going to use it once I finally switch to KDE4! (4.2 probably)
the kde4 screenshot is the default Oxygen
the kde3 version is an old theme i drew a looong time ago (only kde3):
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Glaze?content=23966
Hello! This theme is really beautiful! I saw in Sabayon Linux, but now I have SuSE 10.3 and I can not install this fantastic theme... I downloaded the package of theme I've seen specially compiled for my distro but when I go searching the KDE theme-manager not find absolutely nothing even if the installation goes well...
I could lend a hand?
Goodbye,
klez-Hack.
* ability to change window decoration buttons "text" color (not buttons completely, but the symbols inside them "✕", "⚊", etc). At least the choice between white/black color is enough.
* ability to customize menubar emphasis text color
Here is a screenshot of why I think it would be nice to let user choose menubar emphasis text color:
http://i25.tinypic.com/rvljs4.png
(menubar emphasis color is set to plain white)
I tried to compile polyester from version 1.0.2 to 1.0.4 and I allways get this error:
polyester.cc: In member function 'virtual void polyester::polyesterButton::drawButton(QPainter*)':
polyester.cc:480: error: 'abs' was not declared in this scope
polyester.cc:486: error: 'abs' was not declared in this scope
polyester.cc:501: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:502: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:503: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:504: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:513: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:514: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:515: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:516: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:520: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:521: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:522: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:523: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:527: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:528: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:529: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:530: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:534: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:535: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:536: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:537: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:542: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc:546: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value
polyester.cc: At global scope:
polyester.cc:1421: warning: unused parameter 'e'
make[3]: *** [polyester.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4/client'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4/client'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Any ideas what's wrong?
cmake couldn't find qdbusxml2cpp although it's present in /usr/bin and /usr/lib/qt4/bin
$ cmake .
-- Found Qt-Version 4.3.3
CMake Error: Qt4 qdbusxml2cpp was not found. Make sure it has been built and installed by Qt
-- Configuring done
Fedora 8/Rawhide
Ok. I've had to remove the following line from CMakeLists.txt:
find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED)
FYI: polyester-1.95 compiles fine on i386,x86_64,ppc and ppc64 in Fedora 9/Rawhide and will be available in the repository after the next push:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31426
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Subject: Libreoffice crashes in KDE 4.7.2 (kubuntu 11.10) when Polyster style is enabled Hi Martin, https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43563 When polyster style is enabled then Libreoffice crashes. I have filed a bug in Libreoffice and they have told me that the bug lies with Polyster style. The following is the comment by one of the developers there. Lubos Lunak 2012-01-16 08:55:37 PST The bug is in the style. Function PolyesterStyle::drawComplexControl() dereferences the widget pointer argument in the CC_ToolButton case even though Qt documentation says the argument is optional and can therefore be NULL. You'll need to report to the style developers.
I have switched to uglygen today, because i realized that polyester is what made openoffice (go-openoffice in arch linux) crash all the time on startup. Krita also crashes using polyester, but in kde apps the style can be set as an argument (--style <style>). That is not possible with OOo, which i unfortunately needs to run. According to krita devs, polyester can not handle their costum spinbox. I do not know what the problem is with OOo, except it is affecting the main application window of any OOo app i tried starting. I hope this can be fixed, as polyester is my all time favorite!
Hullo, at least in 2.0 there is a problem with coloured text in tabs — like e.g. Konversation uses. This is the biggest complaint I have about this, otherwise great, style.
If the style in kde4 is polyester, OpenOffice 3.x doesn't start
I downloaded the polyester 2.0 for kde4 and found no kwin decorations of polyester. Please, I hate the Oxygen kwin deco and like the polyester best. bring the polyester kwin decoration back to KDE4. Thanks for all.
i have it almost there, just need to find the time to fix it up a little bit, and that's the hard part :p
"Polyester 2.0" still version 1.90 in fact. why font in tabbars and menubars so bold? button margins assimetric...and many other (
One of my favorite styles!
i'm in kubuntu 8.10 with kde 4.2 and i want a constant look for both qt and gtk+ apps so i'm currently using QtCurve which looks like Polyester and is available for both gtk+ and qt (i do hope Polyester can have a gtk+ port, too), and Crystal kwin 2.0.3. i want to have polyester kwin for kde4 as an alternative when i ever find Crystal kwin boring. currently i can only get the polyester widget style from compiling the source code, but not the kwin for kde4. why?
I like Polyester very much. I use this style since I know it (since Kubuntu 7.04). Do you know if can you will ready it for KDE 4.2? Thank you. :-)
Hi, Turning off icons on buttons had the side effect that web page icons are not on konqueror tabs anymore, which I believe is wrong. (oxygen does show them) This is with the kde4 beta version.
I wasn't aware that there's a Qt4 version of Polyester! Yay! This theme is definitely unmatched, and I'm definitely going to use it once I finally switch to KDE4! (4.2 probably)
What icon theme do you use and is it avaliable? Love everything about Polyester.
the kde4 screenshot is the default Oxygen the kde3 version is an old theme i drew a looong time ago (only kde3): http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Glaze?content=23966
Hello! This theme is really beautiful! I saw in Sabayon Linux, but now I have SuSE 10.3 and I can not install this fantastic theme... I downloaded the package of theme I've seen specially compiled for my distro but when I go searching the KDE theme-manager not find absolutely nothing even if the installation goes well... I could lend a hand? Goodbye, klez-Hack.
Like it, but after install it broke X in Kubuntu 8.04? Heard of this before?
* ability to change window decoration buttons "text" color (not buttons completely, but the symbols inside them "✕", "⚊", etc). At least the choice between white/black color is enough. * ability to customize menubar emphasis text color
Here is a screenshot of why I think it would be nice to let user choose menubar emphasis text color: http://i25.tinypic.com/rvljs4.png (menubar emphasis color is set to plain white)
I tried to compile polyester from version 1.0.2 to 1.0.4 and I allways get this error: polyester.cc: In member function 'virtual void polyester::polyesterButton::drawButton(QPainter*)': polyester.cc:480: error: 'abs' was not declared in this scope polyester.cc:486: error: 'abs' was not declared in this scope polyester.cc:501: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:502: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:503: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:504: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:513: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:514: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:515: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:516: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:520: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:521: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:522: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:523: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:527: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:528: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:529: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:530: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:534: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:535: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:536: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:537: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:542: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc:546: warning: conversion to 'float' from 'double' may alter its value polyester.cc: At global scope: polyester.cc:1421: warning: unused parameter 'e' make[3]: *** [polyester.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4/client' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4/client' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kotyz/builds/kdestyles/polyester/src/polyester-1.0.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any ideas what's wrong?
Oh, and I use gcc/g++ 4.3.0, could be the problem in this? I heard this version is buggy ...
The link to the sources is wrong. It's still the older polyester-1.90.tar.gz
oh, because i've come up with a wrong name and i'm lazy to change it :) but that package is the new one
For sure the best deco I've ever tasted!
cmake couldn't find qdbusxml2cpp although it's present in /usr/bin and /usr/lib/qt4/bin $ cmake . -- Found Qt-Version 4.3.3 CMake Error: Qt4 qdbusxml2cpp was not found. Make sure it has been built and installed by Qt -- Configuring done Fedora 8/Rawhide
Ok. I've had to remove the following line from CMakeLists.txt: find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED) FYI: polyester-1.95 compiles fine on i386,x86_64,ppc and ppc64 in Fedora 9/Rawhide and will be available in the repository after the next push: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31426