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Acqua with Dropshadows - l3m flavoured

KDE 3.x Window Decorations

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

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Description:

This is a modification of the kwinacquamod with dropshadows...

i added the goodies from my former kwinacqua mod:

- correct buttons and button placements
- grey inactive titlebars

and i added these configuration options:

- shadowed titlebar text is now optional
- you can choose between
-- no right button
-- a menu button
-- a context-help button

(just look at screenshot 1 :) )

I also changed the name of the lib, so you can install mine and another kwinacqua without any problems....

Installing:

$ ./configure [ options ]
$ make
# make install

for debian users, there's an install script which sets all the correct configure options, so it's only:
$ ./build-debian.sh
# make install

Thanks to the apple designers and all the people who worked on this theme:
- rik hemsley
- m.j.soto
- thormedia
- noonespecial
- david sansome
- l3m ( me )

Last changelog:

17 years ago

New configuration option:
- "borderless" mode
( check screenshot 2 )

New configuration option:
- "light inactive style", inactive title bar is not darkened
...done upon request from here, but it looks so cool, it's now default :)
you can see the effect on screenshot 3 - doesn't look like much, but try it out! You'll be surprised!

Bugfix:
- icon doesn't get drawn behind buttons if the window-width is too small

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jgmsys
15 years ago

I also have issues compiling this. I am getting a similar message when the system attempts to create /usr/lib/kwin.la - "No rule..." Forgive me for sounding like a newbie, which I really don't consider myself as I've been playing with Linux since 1995, but what causes such errors?

marto
15 years ago

I like this very much, so I want to install on my Gentoo system.
But compilation fails immediatly with this message:

kwinacqua $ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tommy/Documents/Downloads/kwinacqua'
Making all in acqua
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tommy/Documents/Downloads/kwinacqua/acqua'
Making all in config
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/tommy/Documents/Downloads/kwinacqua/acqua/config'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/kde/3.3/lib/kwin.la', needed by `libkwinacqual3m_config.la.closure'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/tommy/Documents/Downloads/kwinacqua/acqua/config'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tommy/Documents/Downloads/kwinacqua/acqua'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tommy/Documents/Downloads/kwinacqua'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Please help! I like it very much... :-(

wogaut
16 years ago

Very nice style, I'd love to use it, but I'm having some troubles:
./configure works without errors
make compiles without errors
make install (as su) works without errors
and then? I cannot select the style. It just doesn't show up. Maybe it installs into the wrong directory (I'm running Mandrake 9.2)?

Pleeeeeeaaaaaassse help!

l3m
17 years ago

Sorry for the delay, my old webserver died and it took some time to get a replacement....

anyway, now it's fixed, and the downloading can start again :)

have fun!

Cal
17 years ago

Please fix the link. This looks like a very good win deco.

dabinka
17 years ago

Looks good..

Link is broken though.

linuxnerd
17 years ago

Hey person who made this theme! It looks really good, and I'd like to have it on my computer, but I can't seem to get it going. I think I've installed acquaosk, a theme that is basicilly the same as this one, but I couldn't get the OS X tool bar working. I'm using SuSE 8.2 Pro, and right now I've got a tool-bar on it that is called "Glow". It looks OK, and I'm happy with it, but I'd like to have the little bar across the top look like OS X. Anyway, I can ./configure it, make it, and make install it, and I get no errors, but I can't seem to "activate" it. On most "themes" like this in SuSE 8.2 Pro, you right-click on the tool-bar and go to "Configure Window Behavior", and it brings up the different types of tool-bars you can have. I can't find it there, and so I was wondering if you could help me get it on my system. Thanks!

P.S. I've tried using Control Center on SuSE also, and couldn't get it there either.

dagsverre
17 years ago

It required me to install a newer version of autoconf (manually, as the debian package system didn't seem to have it). This really shouldn't be necesarry, the autoconf system is intended for use *before* distribution, and there shouldn't be parts requiring it in the distribution.

ckjmaner
17 years ago

Hi. I'm running KDE 3.1 on FreeBSD 4.8. I installed this theme which looks really cool. I installed it as directed and it seemed to work fine. However my KDE does not "see it." I'm betting it's a path issue. Does anyone know what setting in which file I need to change to get KDE to see it? I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Charles

sayetan
17 years ago

link to aqua style http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=153

in file install.sh
remove "kinstalltheme"
add this line "/opt/kde/bin/kinstalltheme"

enjoy!!

BlinkEye
17 years ago

I could install aqua without any problem, but I'm not able to choose it from the window decoration tab. I looked up for a line "kinstalltheme" in install.sh but I don't have that line.
any other suggestion? I'm using redhat 8 with kde3.1.3...

sayetan
17 years ago

there is no aqua style. Where I can find aqua style ?!

Wysiwyg
17 years ago

i've typed ./configure and got a lot of messages and this:

checking for KDE... configure: error:
I can't find the designer plugins. These are required and should have been installed
by kdelibs

WTH? What am i missing? I'm using a Slackware 9.0 with all packages from the ISO and the k installed. qt, 3.1.2

Wysiwyg
17 years ago

Whoa, wait a minute. The window decoration is installed but... There's no style! Aaaahh!! I want aqua buttons!!! What is missing here?

slackman
17 years ago

like guppetto already said, is there a way to move the minimize,maximize,close buttons to the right and menu one to the left because I find it very awkward to use them on the left side. There is probably something in the coding that can be changed, could you tell me what to change please and I can change it myself. Thanks.

wwwonka
17 years ago

Love this theme...BUT

using RH 9.0 and the title color is white and I don't see a way to change it to black so I can see it. Any ideas help?

Thx! :-)

guppetto
17 years ago

This is truly a sweet windec. Would it be posible to configure the buttons to a particular side. Some people like the Mac Style left side buttons, and some prefer the windows right side button. Could a switch be installed allowing users to pick?

maskra
17 years ago

Not sure about previous version or future, but on my RC2 of Mandrake I had to move the files around since they got compiled into the wrong directories. After compiling I did the following:

mv /usr/local/kde/share/apps/kwin/acqual3m.desktop /usr/share/apps/kwin/

mv /usr/local/kde/lib/kde3/* /usr/lib/kde3/

Optional if you want to keep your system clean of fake files and directories to avoid confusion:

NOTE Make sure you dont need or have anything else inside this folder... Mine was created at the time of compile for this theme. I am not responsible if you remove somthing you wherent supposed to.

rm -Rf /usr/local/kde

PS.. Love this theme.

dekiefer
17 years ago

Using Mac OS X December 2002 Developer Tools running the latest fink kde files 3.1.17/18. I get a completed configure but this from the linker:

bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -ltinfo -lgcc -L/sw/lib -L/usr/lib -dynamiclibs -o libkwinacqual3m_config.la.closure libkwinacqual3m_config_la_closure.lo -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/sw/lib -L/sw/lib -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -R /sw/lib -R /sw/lib -R /usr/X11R6/lib -R /sw/lib AcquaConfig.lo /sw/lib/kwin.la
ld: /sw/lib/kwin.so is input for the dynamic link editor, is not relocatable by the static link editor again
make[3]: *** [libkwinacqual3m_config.la.closure] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
deksmacintosh:41->

s0ggyfish
17 years ago

i'm having a bit of trouble setting this up, when i run the ./configure command i get the following error:

checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log.

I've searched for a libz package for mandrake 9.0 but the closest thing i came to was the zlib1 package listed in kpackage. any ideas where i can get libz?

thanks

jrs
17 years ago

Could the mac os x style shadows be applied to the kicker, mac menubar, menus in general and icons? This is would be really kew

flohr
17 years ago

Great work!
One small wish:
Could you add a sticky/unsticky button? That is the only thing I miss.

Michael

l3m
17 years ago

yes, there will be an option to make the grey oval button stick/unstick in one of the next releases :)

felipe
17 years ago

Ok, I made some little changes, If anybody is interested I can send the patch for Acqua.cpp.. just email me if you want it: filippo@email.it

features:

* fixed black line along the bottom in MacOSX style shadow mode (thanks Thowil =);

* titlebar is lower so you can use bigger fonts

* the shadow is more "light" so matching the default Liquid shadow color

* borderless mode improved

L3m I hope you like it, what about a new release? try it! =)

Let's keep this kwinaqua as the default one! So far I only miss:

* the ability to configure the buttons position (although the default is correct)

* titelbar text should be *centered*, while right now it's a bit on the right (any hint for this?)

ciao

felipe_

Oxidative
17 years ago

I'd be interested :)

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17 years ago

New configuration option:
- "borderless" mode
( check screenshot 2 )

New configuration option:
- "light inactive style", inactive title bar is not darkened
...done upon request from here, but it looks so cool, it's now default :)
you can see the effect on screenshot 3 - doesn't look like much, but try it out! You'll be surprised!

Bugfix:
- icon doesn't get drawn behind buttons if the window-width is too small

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