[opensuse-factory] Old-style decoration
What I really miss every single second on Leap and Tumbleweed is the "B II preview" window decoration I still have a 13.2 that is using it, so I was wondering, is there a tool available that takes this amazing (in my perception) decoration and converts it to something usable in plasma5? If not, is there any (other) way to get this decoration back on my workspace? -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.25 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2016, 08:56:01 schrieb H.Merijn Brand:
I still have a 13.2 that is using it, so I was wondering, is there a tool available that takes this amazing (in my perception) decoration and converts it to something usable in plasma5?
No. You (or somebody else) would need to take the source code and port it to kwin5.
If not, is there any (other) way to get this decoration back on my workspace?
kwin comes with a theming engine (Aurorae) that allows you to create window decorations without writing/compiling any code. There should be a "Get New Decorations" button in the window decoration settings that allows you to download and install such themes from an Internet site. Maybe you find something similar to BII there, or something else that you like. Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:13:31 +0200, Wolfgang Bauer
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2016, 08:56:01 schrieb H.Merijn Brand:
I still have a 13.2 that is using it, so I was wondering, is there a tool available that takes this amazing (in my perception) decoration and converts it to something usable in plasma5?
No.
Alas. Thanks for the feedback!
You (or somebody else) would need to take the source code and port it to kwin5.
If time permits, maybe, one day ...
If not, is there any (other) way to get this decoration back on my workspace?
kwin comes with a theming engine (Aurorae) that allows you to create window decorations without writing/compiling any code.
I will have a look
There should be a "Get New Decorations" button in the window decoration settings that allows you to download and install such themes from an Internet site.
I know, been there several times already
Maybe you find something similar to BII there, or something else that you like.
none do even come close to BIIpreview. *All* available decoration styles use the full width of the window/widget for the titlebar and the (optional) buttons for maximize, minimize, restore and close. The huge advantage of BII was that the titlebar was just as wide as the title of the window required, thus leaving more view on what is behind the widget. Another - less important - feature was the fact that the decoration on the bottom-right was a tad bit wider than the rest of the outline, so the location to click for resize what more comfortable. These two "features" were in fact the main reason I chose KDE over Gnome when I started with OpenSUSE 7 yeeeeeears ago. Gnome did not support BII styles.
Kind Regards, Wolfgang
-- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.25 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
Hello, Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2016, 16:36:17 CEST schrieb H.Merijn Brand:
Another - less important - feature was the fact that the decoration on the bottom-right was a tad bit wider than the rest of the outline, so the location to click for resize what more comfortable.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but - if you hold the "Alt" key and use the right mouse button, you'll get a quite big area to resize a window. Regards, Christian Boltz -- the way to prevent bikeshedding is not to answer on every single email line by line ;-) [Cornelius Schumacher in opensuse-project] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:51:04 +0200, Christian Boltz
Hello,
Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2016, 16:36:17 CEST schrieb H.Merijn Brand:
Another - less important - feature was the fact that the decoration on the bottom-right was a tad bit wider than the rest of the outline, so the location to click for resize what more comfortable.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but - if you hold the "Alt" key and use the right mouse button, you'll get a quite big area to resize a window.
I don't see that happen. What I *do* see happen is a very high load for Xorg and kwin_x11 with "zink" decoration style with "Large" border style using ps Tue 4 Oct 2016 11:13:24 USER PID PPID PRI NI SIZE STIME TTY TIME COMMAND merijn 2907 1 20 0 79386 11:02:19 - 0:00:00 /usr/lib64/ibus/ibus-x11 --kill-daem root 2435 2383 20 0 109549 11:01:03 4:7 0:03:14 /usr/bin/Xorg -br :0 vt7 -nolisten t merijn 2782 2732 20 0 864209 11:02:08 - 0:01:20 kwin_x11 using top PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2435 root 20 0 444088 196476 158252 R 61.130 1.201 4:20.83 Xorg 2782 merijn 20 0 3518304 305940 160564 S 3.654 1.870 1:35.24 kwin_x11 Linux 4.1.31-30-default [openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)] HP Z420 Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 0 @ 3.20GHz/1402(12) x86_64 15974 Mb kwin5-5.5.5-15.3.x86_64 xorg-x11-7.6_1-16.1.noarch
Christian Boltz
-- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.25 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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