Hello everyone,
I have working with qtcurve for years and have already created several themes with it. If anyone is still interested, I could come up with a nice qtcurve theme for you.
Recently, I have been trying to make a better looking plymouth Solar theme for Solyd. I have never messed with a plymouth theme before and I am stuck, so I could use some help from some one who has some experience with plymouth.
How do I upload a .png file that is 357.6 KiB in size?
[brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?

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Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
Hi Jett
thanks for jumping in
the only requirement that is set in stone
is that the theme needs to work in both KDE and XFCE; i believe that qtcurve can do that (i believe, not sure).
thanks for jumping in

you could compress it (tar/zip/whatever) and upload it as an attachment with the new topic.Jett wrote:How do I upload a .png file that is 357.6 KiB in size?
of course. options are always welcomed.Jett wrote:If anyone is still interested, I could come up with a nice qtcurve theme for you.
the only requirement that is set in stone

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Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
Hi zero,
The procedure goes something like this;
I create a theme using qtcurve which is saved as a .qtcurve file. In KDE, you download .qtcurve from repo and install. It should then appear in /system settings/application appearance/style/widget style droplist. Then you click the configure button then the import button and browse to the aforementioned .qtcurve theme file in your home folder and click on it. Apply it and you should see the new theme in use. Then import my corresponding color-scheme file into /system settings/application appearance/colors.
I have never ran XFCE before but the procedure should be similar.
The procedure goes something like this;
I create a theme using qtcurve which is saved as a .qtcurve file. In KDE, you download .qtcurve from repo and install. It should then appear in /system settings/application appearance/style/widget style droplist. Then you click the configure button then the import button and browse to the aforementioned .qtcurve theme file in your home folder and click on it. Apply it and you should see the new theme in use. Then import my corresponding color-scheme file into /system settings/application appearance/colors.
I have never ran XFCE before but the procedure should be similar.

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Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
unfortunately this an approach that doesn't work in XFCE
it installs the basic KDE core into XFCE just because of this.
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docbook-xsl gtk2-engines-qtcurve kate-data katepart kde-runtime
kde-runtime-data kde-style-qtcurve kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data
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libkdnssd4 libkemoticons4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkidletime4 libkio5
libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4
libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libktexteditor4
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libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4 libutempter0 libvirtodbc0
libxml2-utils libzip2 nepomuk-core-data nepomuk-core-runtime
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plasma-scriptengine-javascript qtcurve qtcurve-l10n
shared-desktop-ontologies soprano-daemon virtuoso-minimal
virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common
0 upgraded, 85 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
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Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
How does theming work in XFCE? Can you figure out how to get qtcurve installed in XFCE sucessfully? Qtcurve has to be installed in order to use a .qtcurve theme fle as far as I know. I can create it if you can do that.
Another thought...maybe the KDE .qtcurve theme can be duplicated in XFCE with the theming tools available in XFCE?
Another thought...maybe the KDE .qtcurve theme can be duplicated in XFCE with the theming tools available in XFCE?

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Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
In Xfce, this is different than Kde. Perhaps this page could help you to better understand how it works: http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/xfwm4_theme
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Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
@Jett
Great to hear you want to work on a new SolydXK theme!
If you plan on creating a new theme for SolydXK, please contact our Lead Designer: samriggs.
He's been working on the SolydXK theme and Icon Pack for the past couple of months: http://forums.solydxk.nl/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=2453
Great to hear you want to work on a new SolydXK theme!
If you plan on creating a new theme for SolydXK, please contact our Lead Designer: samriggs.
He's been working on the SolydXK theme and Icon Pack for the past couple of months: http://forums.solydxk.nl/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=2453
Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
http://numixproject.org/
I really love these guys' work. Beautiful and original IMO. Would enjoy seeing this as the default theme for Solyd X.
I really love these guys' work. Beautiful and original IMO. Would enjoy seeing this as the default theme for Solyd X.
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Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
Exact, and that's a pity. Asking them if there's a solution (or not) for Debian/derivative Debian users could be a good idea.

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Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
since it's just a gtk theme/icon you can add the ppa into your souces.list and install it to debian. if anything goes bad the worst thing might happened would be a messed up interface or an ugly one. it could be solved by simply change the gtk theme. I've been using it for several weeks on my system. quite a nice gtk theme. I'm lovin it :3
Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
Hmmm, I've seen enough problems discussed in SolydXK's forums caused by people adding ppa repositories to their sources list.kurotsugi wrote:since it's just a gtk theme/icon you can add the ppa into your souces.list...
I pass.
Too bad, too.
Re: [brainstorm] can we "make" a new theme for SolydXK?
PPA is generally dangerous for debian but there are some exceptions :3
it might be a dangerous one if you add something like libreoffice, kernel, kde or gnome PPA but the risk of adding a gtk theme and icon package is very small and could be neglected. it's just a small package (44.5 kb) without any external dependency and didn't affect anything other than the theme. based on my experience for using it on my system for several weeks, the problem comes from using it is...nothing.
it might be a dangerous one if you add something like libreoffice, kernel, kde or gnome PPA but the risk of adding a gtk theme and icon package is very small and could be neglected. it's just a small package (44.5 kb) without any external dependency and didn't affect anything other than the theme. based on my experience for using it on my system for several weeks, the problem comes from using it is...nothing.
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