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
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