I gave Compiz another try today after a good many months. It’s in Portage and it installed easily, as did Compiz Fusion. Which itself is a change from the last time I tried it.
Compiz still never works quite right with KDE. The desktop pager and taskbar are always wonky. However there […]

A few short years ago the majority of apps I used were GTK2 apps. I alternated between Gnome and/or XFCE4 regularly. Compiz and Beryl came out and they were all gconf’d and whatnot so it was more Gnome. There was Gaim, Firefox, I think Thunar for file management, Gvim, GIMP, and so […]

What with all the news about the release of the first KDE 4.0 release candidate, I realized I’ve been using KDE 3.5 for quite some number of months now. This is quite a feat given how often I used to bounce between window managers in the past. I believe I first used KDE […]

For a long time in Gentoo, if I had the “Use my KDE style in GTK applications” option selected in KDE, certain themes would cause all GTK apps to fail to even start. Only certain QT themes did it though. Domino for example, which happens to be my favorite QT app.
I also had […]

I use a dark QT theme. Many web pages (example: Youtube) have CSS which sets text fields to have black text, but don’t set the background color of text fields to be anything. So the background color ends up being my default dark (set by my browser / window manager), but the text […]

Today, I found myself using Konqueror and needing to swtich back and forth from “details” view and “icon” view a lot. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a toolbar button to do this in Konqueror. There may well be one, but one of Konq’s major shortcomings and longtime pet peeves of mine is when you […]

To restore the default KMenu:
rm ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu

I found an article describing how to tweak how Kicker looks. I wrote about this before but this site includes a few tips the KDE wiki article does not include.
Interestingly you can add some text to your KMenu button:
[KMenu]
ShowText=true
Text=Some Text

That looks hideous, so I don’t use it. But you can. I do […]

This little article gives instructions on how to make your input controls (input fields, buttons, drop-down lists) look nicer in Linux. I tried and it worked pretty well. The buttons end up very slightly rounded, which is better than the GTK1-like crudely-3D blocky things I had otherwise. The colors of the controls […]

I haven’t done much with my GUI for a good long while. I’ve been more focused on making it functional rather than pretty. I decided to see what I’ve been missing the the realm of KDE theming. Apparently I’ve been missing a lot. This Domino theme is on par with anything […]