Window decorations

[Roc4fun]

Hi all,  It seems the upgrade to 4.9* has done something to my window decorations.  Previously, some/many of the decorations had configurable shadows for both active and inactive windows.  Now all the decorations just have the border and button size configurable.

I've checked at KDE.org and it is discussed as if one can still configure the shadows.

Any idea what might have become of the configurator?

Tia,

Dave

[Bald Brick]

Hi all,  It seems the upgrade to 4.9* has done something to my window decorations.  Previously, some/many of the decorations had configurable shadows for both active and inactive windows.  Now all the decorations just have the border and button size configurable.

I've checked at KDE.org and it is discussed as if one can still configure the shadows.

Any idea what might have become of the configurator?

Tia,

Dave

I think that how to configure the shadows depends on the Style/Theme specified under "Application Appearance" in System Settings. At least with the QtCurve theme they are still very configurable.

[Roc4fun]

Hi Bald Brick,  QTCurve style is very configurable, but the decorations dictate the "glow".  If I open the air-oxygen decoration.svgz it has the blue glow that windows receive. 

I suppose I could edit the decoration, but Inkscape seems to have a steep learning curve  ;-)

[Bald Brick]

Hi Bald Brick,  QTCurve style is very configurable, but the decorations dictate the "glow".  If I open the air-oxygen decoration.svgz it has the blue glow that windows receive.  

I suppose I could edit the decoration, but Inkscape seems to have a steep learning curve  ;-)

There are so many different kinds of decorations that I sometimes misunderstand what people are talking about. Some of them depend on the desktop theme (the "Window Decorations" settings under "Workspace Appearance"), some on the application style.

With QtCurve almost everything is configured under "Workspace Application Appearance". The window decorations inherit the widget style settings. Other themes obviously work differently.

Anyway, if you want to control the shadows around the windows in QtCurve you'd do it under "Application Appearance". Here:



If you want to change the glow on mouse-over you'd do it here:



And if you want to change the look of the buttons you'd do it here:



And here:



You'd hardly ever have to change the desktop theme settings for the windows decorations (except to change the button positions).

But as I indicated: other themes are more primitive.  



Edit: Corrected typo.

[Georgetoon]

Onlt I noiced wit one of my installs is tat I'm missing Windows decorations.


KDE2, Modern System, Keramik, and others just aren't there.

[Roc4fun]

Thanks for the screenshots Bald Brick.  Most helpful!  I'll play with it and see where I get.

It is curious that the other window decorations configurators seem to be missing.

[Bald Brick]

Onlt I noiced wit one of my installs is tat I'm missing Windows decorations.


KDE2, Modern System, Keramik, and others just aren't there.

If you are on a 32 bit system, install kde-artwork-styles-4.9.2-1_archie_2012.  

[Bald Brick]

Thanks for the screenshots Bald Brick.  Most helpful!  I'll play with it and see where I get.

It is curious that the other window decorations configurators seem to be missing.

For most themes and styles you have to configure some graphical elements under "Application Appearance" > "Style" and others under "Workspace Appearance" > "Window decorations" > "Configure Decoration".

One of the benefits of using QtCurve both as a widget style and as a desktop theme is that you can configure almost everything in the same place. And it's also the most configurable style-cum-theme there is.


Note the typo (now corrected) in the post with the screenshots.