From reading the bug it sounds like KDE4 is getting close to being ready to hit the tree, which is awesome. Foolishly, I decided to try it early from the overlay last night. It was a total disaster. Things were crashing left and right, panels would resize themselves to be fullscreen (with […]

I’ve been using this theme forever and I’m thinking of changing it, so I wanted to grab some screenshots before I did. I have bandwidth to kill anyways, so enjoy my 3.5 MB PNGs.

My KDE color scheme is here, my QTCurve config is here, my Konsole theme is here, my Vim colors are here, […]

I look at Vim 7 or 8 hours a day, so it’s nice if the colors don’t give me a headache. I’ve used ps_color for years but recently I decided it’s a bit too washed-out and it has some quirks that make it hard to read Ruby code. It’s hard to find anything […]

I took a screenshot of my blog and went into Gimp and did Colors => Invert and thus a new blog layout was born. I also brought back the purple/green one. You can change it via the little skin-selector drop-down thing that’s hopefully showing up and working properly for everyone. Skin […]

I put my old Wordpress theme up for download as requested. Enjoy. I think.

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 […]

I previously prattled on about what the right abstraction should be for an icon theme. I said a hierarchy of subclasses would work.
I was very wrong. It didn’t work at all. For example I tried to write a == method for my Icon class. With the class structure I was using […]

Today I figured out how to get GTK engines to work on my amd64 machine when using programs like mozilla-firefox-bin which are pre-compiled for x86. By “figured out” of course I mean “read some ebuilds someone else wrote and then modified them to work for themes of my choosing”.
Basically you have to […]