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\ No newline at end of file +Changelog +---------------- +*** IF YOU HAVE A 64 BIT MACHINE, UPDATE TO QT 3.3.3 *** +will fix the horizontal slider problem, rotating pixmaps in general + +0.8 +---- +after a long time, this is a snapshot of the current cvs version and probably the last baghira for TQt3 ever. +there won't be Baghira for Qt4, don't ask. +- several bugfixes, minor changes, whatever. + +0.7a +---- +- [style] Reincluded workaround for kpdf < 3.4.3 +- [style] added Milk style +- [style] some code enhancements/cleanups +- [bab] removed "start QString name int deco" dcop interface (useless anyway) +- [bab] added "start QString name QString settings" dcop interface to allow starting a program with the rules set for another one (or a general rule like "Milk" ;) +- [menubar applet] size fix (using an own settings value ;) + +0.7 +---- +Many? - see cvs log... +- New Konqueror Sidebar (Hardware access + Drag 'n Drop link list) +- New search oriented Application Launcher +- More speed and less bugs in the style and the deco +- New look on the brushed metal design +- New Tiger design +- New management to the menubar applet (in matters of size) +.... and much more i forgot over the time ;) + +0.6e +---- +Maintainance release (mainly) +- Fixed compile error on kde3.3 +- Made resize grip optionally (off by default, disable if you get querky problems with the deco) +- starter applet will auto correct size +- added new widget color "Smoke" by Anton + +0.6d +---- +========================== +BECAUSE OF COLOR PREFIXES: +If you think you've got an interesting colorset, that should be part of further releases, please drop me a mail. +----- +widget colors must include: +- a name ("my colorset") +- {R,G,B}, where R,G,B must be [0-255],[0-255],[0-255] +----- +deco colors must include: +- a name ("my colorset") +- {{R,G,B},{R,G,B},{R,G,B},{R,G,B},{R,G,B},{R,G,B},{R,G,B},{R,G,B},{R,G,B},{R,G,B}} in order: +inactiveColor, closeColor, minColor, maxColor, menuColor, helpColor, stickyColor, aboveColor, behindColor, shadeColor +(10 values) +----- +inclusion depends on my arbitrariness ;) +============================== +* (style) update: slightly changed the appereance of the scrollbar sliders (on DementedPixel note) +* (style) update: appereance of groupboxes w/o title (improved the code resulting in more speed as well) +* (config) feature: added color presets for the widget colors +* (config) update: reorganized appereance a bit - NO changes on the config protocol though +* (deco) feature: added a resize handle drag - this will probaby be optional on future releases, but currently im interested in FEEDBACK +* (deco) update: corrected the button spacing (on DementedPixel note) +* (deco) feature: added color presets for the buttons +* (deco) feature: added option to remove captions as i saw some ppl interested on this. +however in general i do not suggest this, as apps often use the title to indicate states (like e.g. unsaved) +* (bab) bugfix: misbehaviour on dcop bab default start <appname> x command (start <app> x y was ok) +* (starter) bugfix: compile error on non final compilations +* (menuapplet) bugfix: compile error because of gcc/kde_export misbehaviour (3.3 problem?) + baghira will compile a 3.3 or 3.4 version depending on the current running system + (binary packagers should note this) +* (menuapplet) update: improved Indicator title calculation +* (menuapplet) update: ported modal window handling (0.6b) to 3.4 version +* (icons) update: dfsw compliant license + +0.6c +---- +* (overall) feature: if you compile yourself, you may try the ./install.sh script, being a GUI wizzard leading you through the installation (especially if you're unexperienced - everyone else: this was just for some lazy hour and playing around with kdialog, i'd personally never click through dialogs instead of ./configure; make; make install ;) +* (overall) bugfix: included 0.6b fixes +* (style) feature: because i was in some kind of nostalgic mood, i added jaguar (liquidlike) buttons. also as jaguar used darker stipples if and only if you use the bab dcop starter or predefinitions, using jaguar will lead to darker stipples (+4 to your default) +* (style) note: this leads to new (consistent) settings: "0" is jaguar in style and deco, so calling +dcop bab default start kcalc 0 0 +will bring you a jaguar kcalc +dcop bab default start kcalc 1 2 +will instead bring you panther kcakc with a b/m deco +THIS HAS ALSO IMPACT ON THE PREDEFINITIONS! +You can either update them by hand or ONCE(!) call ./updatePredefs from the baghira topsrc dir +* (style) update: better handling for icons on buttons +* (style) update: improved editlines (thanks to Gav Wood for suggestion) +* (config) bugfix: writing valid value for visible toolbuttons +* (config) update: added option to replace kickers menu applet +* (deco) update: removed left/right side lines if not using comicframe (looked as if the deco was smaller than the window) +* (deco) update: corrected appereance of the left/right b/m resize handles +* (kickermenu) bugfix: kde3.4 support - i don't know if it will still work correctly with kde3.3 +* (starter) new: i was sucked by kickers startbutton displaying the tooltip on hover, so i wrote a kickerapplet as startmenubutton replacement. you can use any png as button. +name them bStarter.png, bStarter_hover.png, bStarter_down.png, and settle them in 22x22/action - defaults are included +as i don't have such nice access on the startmenu as the button has, its not possible to close the menu by clicking again _AFFTER_ you left the button once, also the default KDE binding to the startmenu (alt+f1, windows key) will display the menu in the screen center instead below the (nonexistent) button + +0.6b +---- +* (style) feature: animated pushbuttons +* (style) bugfix: konqueror crashes on repolishes +* (style) update: improved the look of (colored) iTunes (rectangular) buttons +* (configuration) feature: look predefinition for each application (deco needs kde 3.4b1 and up to work) +* (configuration) bugfix: skipped various unnecessary repolishes +* (bab) update: rewrote the way design switching stuff according to kde 3.4, removed all imperfect workaround stuff -> works much better, but needs kde 3.4 to work properly +* (kickermenu) update: using XClassHint to display the appname (better than relying on the netwm info) +* (kickermenu) update: using app menu instead of desktop menu for modal dialogs +* (kickermenu) note: kicker from kde 3.4 has a special menupanel that autoloads the kicker menuapplet to display the menu. you can remove this menu and readd the baghiramenu, but you'll have to do that after every kde start. -> open [kdeprefix - e.g. usr]/share/apps/kicker/applets/menuapplet.desktop, change "X-TDE-Library=menu_panelapplet" to "X-TDE-Library=b_menu_panelapplet" or (as root) run the following script (simply using sed to update the file): +--------------------start--------------- +#!/bin/sh +sed s/"X-TDE-Library=menu_panelapplet"/"X-TDE-Library=b_menu_panelapplet"/g $(tde-config --prefix)/share/apps/kicker/applets/menuapplet.desktop > _baghirabuffer_ +rm -f $(tde-config --prefix)/share/apps/kicker/applets/menuapplet.desktop +mv _baghirabuffer_ $(tde-config --prefix)/share/apps/kicker/applets/menuapplet.desktop +---------------------end---------------- + +0.6a +---- +* (style) serious bugfix: drawing groupbox frames on non groupboxes +* (style) bugfix: popup menu painting +* (style) bugfix: handles ksplash and kontact splash problem +* (configuration) bugfix: resetting settings +* (configuration) feature: save/restore settings to/from file +* (icons) update: copyright notice +* (general) bugfix: big endian (ppc/sparc) architecture support +* (general) bugfix: openBSD support (thanks to Damir Naden) + + +0.6 +--- +* stripped all fake translucency/shadows code, honoring the fact x.org 6.8 now supports true alpha handling +* fixed OOo error (stupid one, btw. - only had to see it :) +* tricked OOo to get background colored menubar/menus and keep nice button colors +* better support for OOo scrollbars (allways displayd as active, as OOo does not support the MousOver effect) +* better animation code - cpu hunger of some apps should be gone +* completely new settings handling to avoid conflicts of concurring file accesses - unfortunately you'll have to recreate all your settings :( + + +0.5f +---- +bugfix release only +bab started apps shouldn't hang +konqueror shouldn't crash, NOTICE: +the error occured, when updating the palette (applying a new background) to the toolbuttons (seems to be some very specific ones), +please don't ask me why this worked before - i don't know (but i think it's related to the redesign of the eventhandler which now responds much faster) +so the only solution i found was to disable the palette update for the toolbuttons, therefore you should display the inactive toolbuttons for b/m (e.g. by applying "brushed metal" or "both" in the last bab setting) + +0.5e +---- +style: +- fixed the "tde toolbar widget" thing (location bar/juk slider etc.) +- worked around brushed metal kicker translucency support +- changed the appereance of the kicker executor (like konqueror combobox) +- worked around konqueror statusbar offset +- flattened statusbars in genereal +bab: +- most important change: + bab supports a new dcop command to start applications with individual style settings, so + dcop bab babInterface start konqueror 1 2 + will open konqueror b/m + the first argument is the command you want to execute. + if you want to use switches, use "" to combine them, i.e. + dcop bab babInterface start "konqueror --profile webbrowsing --caption Safari" 1 2 + will start konqueror, b/m mode, show the about screen and renames the title to "Safari" + unfortunately the command may not contain a '"' or blanks, so if your app is named "kde application" you will not be able to pass it to bab, maybe i'll implement support for escape chars (\) if there's demand in the future. + the first digit addresses the style (so '0' means aqua, '1' means b/m) the second one the deco (predefined deco 0/1/2) + in addition there's a second command + dcop bab babInterface start xterm 0 + only differing by the fact it only changes the deco design. + USE THIS ONE FOR NONE KDE APPS (i.e. everything that doesn't get styled by baghira) as the other function won't be able to reset the settings for style and deco. + The good thing about this: + 1. You don't have to run complex scripts (maybe just check if dcop is running), bab does all for you + 2. bab does not reset the settings until the app read them - so you will get style and deco you wanted + The "bad" thing: + Though much better than the solution before, this is not process relative, i.e.: + - start an app with long startup time (e.g. juk) + - start another app with short startup time directly after starting juk + the startups will interfere (i.e. the fast app will change the settings and the slow app will get uncertain settings) +- just for cute... bab now "shapes" the upper corners of your screen (so any kickerbar there will be rounded as well:), but don't ask me about the perverse way i found to do so... ;) + +0.5d +---- +- completely remodeled the eventfilter -> faster! (reload the library) +- added some colored throbbers and an xcf so you can create your own colors +- sorting headers appear colored +- put the menuapplet into its own library, so it won't conflict with the kde one and is installed by default +- corrected twin (stippled) frame to align the style +- corercted brushed toolbars (disalignment) + +0.5c +---- +Added a patched version of the kicker menu applet, main difference: +shows current window name left of the menu (you can also click this indicator to get a windowlist, as the menu takes space that's usually used for the taskbar) +*** THIS MENU APPLET WOULD REPLACE THE ORIGINAL ONE, THEREFORE IT'S NOT AUTOINSTALLED *** +to install it with baghira, edit the "subdirs" file and remove the "#" in front of "kickermenu" _before_ (!!!) ./configure + +*** KAnimWidget (Throbbers) now usefully support translucent pixmaps, so the throbber is now translucent (and i removed the ugly frame :) *** +anyway, i don't know since which version this holds, therefore maybe you want to keep the old throbber to prevent uncleaned repaints +(if someone wants to create the nice iTunes throbber - hey thanks, i don't have iTunes) + +Mainly kde3.3 alignments +- fixed juk toolbar stuff (and any other) +- fixed new twin buttons +- toplevelmenubars are not set to stipples anymore, honoring the fact, that the kicker menuapplet recolors them itself to kicker background +- arrows will are dark grey rather than black - makes them appear more smooth + +- remodelled the include structure +- fixed repolishment errors +- fixed taskbar +- deco can be set to have a frame in maximized mode as well +- toolbuttons are not connected, if inactive toolbuttons are not shown + +0.5b +---- +Style: +- code improvements: should give some overall speed, closed a slight memory leak (lists of pointers in b/m mode) +- rewrote the groupbox code -> 1. faster, 2. aligned stipples +- combos on toolbars (konqueror :) look like the safari combo +- changed the appereance of inactive sliders (no bubbles) +- did anyone notice, i changed the stiopples again (figured out that apple uses bright-mid-dark-mid, while mosfet's stipple were dark-dark-bright-bright) + imho this leads to better readable text +- corrected alignment of left side tile in b/m mode +- handled amaroK in b/m mode + +Deco: +- added option to auto add spycing between buttons (making use of the kde spacing leads to unhappy effects, i the window misses a button (e.g. minimize in baghira help)) +- corrected alignment of left side tile in b/m mode + +Bab: +- fixed some saving issues + +Goodies: +The stuff in this folder is not autoinstalled. +Look into it and use whatever you want, however you want (except claiming cr and suing me for nonliterally copying ;) +- added new stuff: bootsplash, konqui tile, tdm picture, lilo-bootscreen +*** read the readme! *** + +0.5a +---- +- BUGFIX (style): konqueror address label +- BUGFIX (style): tab hovering for b/m +- WORKAROUND (style) kiconedit crashes on startup (notice that this error lies in kiconedit and the workaround will be removed as soon as kiconedit is fixed) +- (style) corrected size of the add/remove tab buttons (prevetning from overlaying the tabs) +- (deco): slightly modified coloring function (light dots on button top) + + +0.5 +--- +STYLE +===== +- well, light gradient, right ;) +- highlight color appears as gradient +- TOPLEVEL (mac like) MENUABRS (read this): + The light gradient causes (of course) some trouble on the top level menubars, as the gradient is arranged to the corresponding application window - not to kicker. + As there was interference with the stipples, when using e.g. toplevel brushed metal menus embedded into aqua style kicker, i decided to force toplevel menubars appearing in aqua mode (stippled) assuming you're using an aqua like kicker. this will cause problems if you're using b/m kicker. in this case, i suggest to avoid toplevel menus to get a consistent look (while using auqa mode kicker is preferred) + +DECO +==== +- new brushed style/removed flat brushed +- BUGFIX: bottombar draws void +- some graphical adjustments, corresponding to the brushed metal stuff +- buttons masked on brushed metal design + +ICONS +===== +- new license, read "readme.copyright" + + +0.4d +---- +- several bugfixes, notable: + 1. kicker children appear brushed metaled (if wished), thanks to A. Quincey + 2. that bookmark button thing... + please notice, that this could not really be fixed (the kbookmarkbar somehow accesses the toolbar iterator while i'm using it to check the toolbar layout - what confuses both of us) but i excluded the bookmarkbar by it's name (that could easily differ in other kde versions) and assume it's structure (bunch of combined buttons - no breaks / spacers) + 3. Corrected listviewheader hovering behaviour (wasn't that hard, after all...) +- highlights of this version (gee... what a shameless self promotion :) + 1. configurable deco button colors (added support for kde 3.3 buttons, well - hopefully, as i couldn't test yet) + 2. tabs hover on mouseover + 3. (round) iTunes like rectangular buttons + +0.4c +---- +- (hopefully) fixed compiler stuff - code cleanup: later +- redesigned the dialogs for the windeco 1024x768 compatible now (allmost 800x600 :) +- fixed the toolbutton stuff +- removed any listviewheader correction as this caused more problems that it could ever solve (if you worry about listviews, having too short headers and therefore paint void areas - complain to the appropriate author) + +0.4b +----- +code should be more iso-cpp compatible (especially the preprocessor stuff (#include/#define)) +it compiles nice on gcc-3.4.1, i have no idea about gcc-3.4.0 + +STYLE +===== +- (initial support) of conjuncted toolbuttons (use smooth tool for best effect) + restrictions: + o only works with kde toolbars (not on toolbars in plain qt applications, e.g. qt-designer) + o only works when the kde toolbar uses kde toolbarbuttons (rather than qt toolbuttons) - most kde applications do, well - some do not (you'll see) + +DECO +==== +- includes version that was meant for 0.4a (see changelog for this version) +- addidionally you can choose individual decos (_not_ buttons) for active and inactive windows + + +0.4a +----- +fixed the and cleant up the makefiles - maybe you've got some useless stuff (menuentries, icons) in your system due to old releases +call ./cleanMySystem /<prefix> from the baghira topdir if you wish to delete them (if you're paraniod, you can use this script as help for deleting them by hand as well) +where <prefix> is the prefix you gave when configuring baghira + +STYLE +===== +- fixed some graphical errors (toolbar stuff etc) +- it's now possible to tint the brushed metal style (autoapplied to the the deco as well) +- tricked back the konqueror statusbar (gee.., we don't like to be recolored, right?) +- found a (hopefully) better solution for the listviewheaders (setting only too small ones to be expanded) + +DECO +==== +- fixed (and improved :) frame painting +- new deco "glossy" using the aquarius coloring function + +CONFIG +====== +- added color picker for the aquarius function + *notice* this is only a _color picker_ + to not mess up with your color scheme arrangement, it will not touch the current color settings + +0.4 (finally :) +---------------- +YOU WILL NEED KDE 3.2 TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPILE THIS PACKAGE ! +Though i applied all kindly provided gcc-3.4 patches, i yet did not install this compiler, so i don't guarantee it will work, patched versions of gcc-3.3 (gcc-3.3-x) may also fail + +STYLE +===== +- new coloring function "Aquarius" - replacing the "icy" style. + as the two functions are incompatible on pixmap layer, there's no way back - sorry +- ended the stipple experiment +- fixed some stuff (missing pixel on tabs, tabclosebutton position, ... whatever (more stuff i forgot - test if your main issue is fixed and complain if not :P )) +- improved scrollbar animation code, fixed the juk problem as side effect. the deactivation is yet not functional (forgot to implement) expect for 0.4a +- improved the popuptranslucency for menubars - as a sideefeect, the dynamic offscreen buffer (to prevent artefacts) now works on toplevel menus (macstyle menus) + +DECO +==== +- now shipped with package :P +- better 3D effect for the title (dark/bright offset like Apple does, to provide distinction from any background) +- comic frame in titleblend color (right, resp. bottom color) +- complete change of big bottom bar - change to 6px thick bar to only provide shaped framing +- fixed several issues with the frame size (eg. width on maximized windows) + +BAB +=== +- bab now also provides dcop acces to the windeco style + +CONFIG DIALOG +============= +- completely new, though tested, some settings could have unexpected results (i couldn't really test everything), please notice if you find something (besides deactivation of scrollbar animation - see above) +- attaches to the style dialog +- the old dialog remains in system unless you remove it by hand (look for "kcm_kcmbaghira.la", "kcm_kcmbaghira.so" in $(PREFIX)/lib/kde3/ and "kcmbaghira.desktop" in $(PREFIX)/share/applnk/Settings/LookNFeel) +- test the about dialog =) +- click help +- more intuitive interface with a later release (setting dependend deactivation of widgets, etc.) + +COLORSCHEMES +============ +Christian Lehmann provided two new Colorschemes for the new function, AquaBlue and AquaGraphite - they're auto installed +as starting point, you could try rgb = 84,140,242 for the button - avoid very low or very high saturated color (result is uncolored/flat colored) + +ICONS +===== +Due to massive request (protest?) the icons for bab and the black and blue paw are installed to your system... NO COMPLAINTS ABOUT THAT, PLEASE... +The throbber is _not_ installed (sorry, but this would be much too invasive) - if you want it, copy it by hand + +SCRIPTS +======= +- added a script terminal to roughly show bab/dcop/windeco functionality (the script uses sleep - if it does not work on your system, use kstart similar to the other sripts and remove the sleep call) +- scripts are not installed, as they're just examples + +FINAL WORDS +=========== +haha...! i even had some letters left ;) + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +=================================================================================== +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +0.3s +- tweaked several graphics + o i was annoyed by the raised panels in knetscan, so i forced panels to appear sunken, similar to the editframes + o changed appereance of the toolbarhandlers (the old where too loud) + o fixed bug on splitters (well, somehow - obviously noone cares about the direction flag) + o fixed "bug" that lead to black frames under combos in some apps (e.g. amaroK) +- bugfixed the setting stuff (misdisplayd groupboxes, ability to unset shadows under popups...) +- Tab vs. Chooser is now optional + o the default setting is somewhat clever, i.e. if the toplevel widget is a dialog, tabs appear as choosers, as oldstyle tabs elsewise + -> result: apps like konqueror, tdevelop, quanta, konsole... will show tabs, dialogs will show choosers + o you can define the tab behaviour for aqua and brushed metal individually in the bab menu +- fixed menu animation stuff +- fixed bookmark menu behaviour (so could have told me...) +- fixed toolbutton repolishment +- "--enable-final" should work again +- bab: + o added a dropdownmenu (rightclick), currently mainly to allow you to set a default style (so you don't have to care about the setting when shutting down kde) +- lightweightened the stipples (more aqua like) and improved alignment (!you do not need to set the align stipples checkbox - it's useless!) +- new icons, created by timur ((c) 2004 TKdesign-studio.com. All rights reserved.) + +- ppc users: i added an endian definition to baghira.h - try to set it to big endian (but i don't know if it'll help) + +0.3r +- scrollbars: + o no useless sliders are drawn + o code should be faster now +- changed the tabbars to look like apples chooser widgets (button tabs) + this is a bit hackish, as qt doesn't know choosers + i don't knwow if i can easily make this optional, so i'll probably rely on reactions... +- went through the polishment code, uhmmm... that was really necessary +- option to brush me... + +0.3q +- new arrows on scrollbars + combos (thanks to Narcis Tesa for providing the pix) +- added option to fade in popup menus (works with translucency) +- Tabbar Bases will follow tabs colors :) + +0.3p +- redesigned groupboxes (twice as fast :) +- corrected wrongly shadowed widgets (flat groupboxes) +- redesigned scrollbars + +0.3o +- IMPROVED MEMORY MANAGEMENT - menus won't eat your memory anymore +- fixed bugs that may have caused crashes on some systems +- thanks to "mbllos" for some code optimization and a bugfix in the button coloring function +- slight changes to the toolbuttons (especially the round version) +- pressed sliders aren't animated, better slider hover behaviour at all, "hand" cursor on sliders +- included throbber for konqueror - copy to your icon folder (global is $KDEPREFIX/share/icons/default.kde) +- fixed nasty bug when trying to remove nonexistent popupmenushadows (crashed tear off menus) + + +0.3n +- fixed error that lead korganizer to crash (well, it's rather a workaround - as the KOAgenda class doesn't like foreign eventhandlers, i removed my - on cost of slider behaviour) +- fixed graphical error on some scrollbars +- fixed qtoolbutton error (some non stippled and miscolored buttonbackgrounds in toolbars) +- fixed error on some scrollviews (that didn't highlight the scrollers) +- fixed graphical problem with stipple unalignment on toolbars +- better support for toolbuttons besides toolbars (e.g. k3b) +- some further (minor) graphical improvements +- better menu-indicator/shadow related behaviour... yes, i said this wouldn't be possible, but it annoyed me too much, so i did it. (anyone here may thank RenderMan for this, he asked and this followed me so i really had to fix this :) + +0.3m +- speedUps, speedUps anywhere... ;-) + 1. by avoiding permanent repaint (update) of animated widgets (scrollers/progressbar)) - nice sideeffect: scrollers are back on wished behaviour again ;-) + 2. by avoiding useless searching the dictionaries (restructured popup code - allmost feared it'd never compile anymore...) and some calculations ;-) +- especially for jos added a new option for even smoother taskbar butoons ;-) +- fixed miinor error in kcmbaghira (you couldn't set opacity in gradient mode / stuck to custom opacity) +- removed annoying progress percent display + +0.3l +- modified dropshadow behaviour (menus < shadowoffset won't draw any shadow at the too small side) +- slightly changed sublying pixmap for scrollbar sliders +- new progressbar for "apple" style +- new progressbar behaviour ;-) (try apple or liquid - i'm sorry i denied this was possible... i'm just a little fool):\ +- also new Scrollbar bahaviour (side effect: if there are more scrollable areas in an app, all scrollers will be paint active if you enter one. +- slightly rounded the rect toolbuttons +- more apple like shadows - i hope to soon provide fast blurring AND I DO NOT LIKE THE MS STYLE!!! (yes, this means you, RenderMan! ;-) + (notice that 1. the current implementation is subefficient - i'll enhace that for next release; 2. this totally messed up my translucency code - so if you notice any artefacts, fractions or shifts: please drop me a mail ;-) +0.3k (serious bugfix release, recommanded over 0.3j) +- better support for groupboxes of kicker apps (e.g. button background) +- fixed error on small popupmenus (thanks to RenderMan for the hint!) +- (rough) support for bottom Tabs (cause konsole will use them in 3.2) +- included math.h - i still do not understand, why some compilers (gcc versions!!!) do not suppport exp and pow internal? %) +0.3j +- corrected slider geometrics (won't slide out of sliderarea, you can grip the whole slider) +- corrected highlighted menutext color when using custom menu colors +- set the very small pushbuttons to new gradient style +- set minimum tab height to 27 pixels (regarding to tabs on apples homepage) +- reordered dropshadow calling process +- changed behaviour of kicker headers (task buttons - to say it the ms way...:) - highlightning/coloring assumes them to be NOT button colored (rather background) +- corrected slider color on groupboxes also for my friends, who don't like stipples... ignoramuses ;-) +- added gradient translucency (but please don't expect this to be a speed wonder - the gradient has to be rendered for every menu (as they can be of different width) and then blended to the background completely (different from common translucency, where i can often take parts out of the buffer) +However: it's at least ghost free and not rendered twice - if you close and then reopen a submenu (e.g. from a menubar) +- added buffer to provide ghost free shadows (this leads to double buffering for translucency, well - gradients are and keep doublebuffered anyway) +- added free sizable menu drop shadows (w/o kde bug on shadows that run out of screen) / the shadows could need a gaussian blur (otherwise big shadows look too sharp) - we'll hopefullly see that next time... (for the moment, i suggest to use bright shadows (1 - not 0) to lower this effect) +- disaligned menuchecks should no be (vertically) aligned +- hopefully fixed a polishment bug about combos on toolbars (?!) +===================================================== +AND: IMPORTANT TO ANYONE!!! DEACTIVATE KDE DROPSHADOWS!!! +(as they'll produce artefacts in traslucent menus + + artefacts within themselves + + artefacts in my shadows + + unnecessary slow down menus) +===================================================== + +0.3i +- fixed drawing error on horizontal splitters +- added new sliderarrow (thanks to Narcis Tesa for the picture) +!!! NOTICE: The new Image is (allthough applelike) very big and vertical asymmetrical displayed - this can lead to inadequate look if i can't change its size - e.g. if it settles on a toolbar (open juk to see what i mean) the only way to handle this, is resetting the toolbarsize to at least 24 pixels. As e.g. only provides a maximum of 22 pixels, you have to edit its config file by hand: open ~/.kde/share/config/jukrc, look for the [MainWindow Toolbar playToolBar] section and set "IconSize=24". - sorry for this. +- slightly changed the tabbarbase on icy buttons (by user request and because it was necessary:) +- scroller activation now also works with kwrite and dependent apps (gideon, etc) +- improved support for custom menu colors (child menu triangles, checkmarks, splitters) +- improved (generalized) toolbar color handling (background seperators leaded to uncolored konqueror completition box - this shouldn't happen to any widget anymore) +============================================================================ +=== R E A D T H I S ! ! ! ============================================================= +============================================================================ +I stole the whole menudropshadow stuff from kstyle (thanks to the developers) to call them at the moment I (yes: ME:-) want! +PLEASE TEST THEM EXCESSIVLY and tell me, if you notice any ghosts from them by doing anything. thanks. +I WON'T MODIFY FOREIGN APPS SETTINGS! therefore you have to DEACTIVATE KDE MENU DROPSHADOWS yourself! - sorry for the inconvenience. +as they're active by default it's a good idea to deactivate menudropshadows in kde's style settings +( i know that they're still ghost effects in the shadow itself - i'll try to fix that soon ) +============================================================================ +- stole kstyle function for double buffered sliders and adjusted it for use with shadowed groupboxes (allows slider moving without artefacts) - you can read it. i'm a thief. i stole it - their precious - and THEY WANTS IT! ;-) + +0.3h (for massive (!) but unserious bugfix) +- added smooth toolbuttons option +- hacked around smudge error on automoving sliders (does NOT hold for sliders on groupboxes, if shadows activated) +- you now can choose between liquid, old and newstyle baghira progress bar (honestly i prefer the original baghira style, too - well, apple's not always perfect ;-) +... +HOLY SH**, i can't believe, nobody mentioned that before: did you never try to change to a custom menu style (color, unstippled translucency???) didn't you see there was something terribly wrong??? e.g.: IT JUST DIDN'T WORK? +- fixed that, so menu styling now behaves as it should. (hell on earth, i've to do everything myself - even kickin' my butt... ;-) +(head over to resexcellence and look at the milk screenshot, if you want to know why - black translucent menus look really cool (imho), allthough qt seems to have problems displaying bright text on a dark background) +- kde's menu dropshadows sometimes still mess up with my code (and theirs, too) the reason is that I (and they) have to sync qt with xfree before i can take a screenshot - the result is that the menushadow can appear during this time and then is also captured (if i don't capture it, it will leave a white ghost instead of a black one). +for the moment i have to suggest to deactivate menu dropshadows to get better translucency results - i'll try to write my own dropshadows for a future release. +- fixed minor unpolishment bug (accidently removed moustracking for all scrollviews - bad on combos, if not reactivated by new style..., well, i guess you didn't do that anyway ;)) +- slightly changed colortheme +- made the splitter more decent + +0.3g (dedicated to howard shores score of "the return of the king", which kept me awake tonight =) +- corrected position of new triangles on srollbars etc. a bit +- found (tricky) solution for Toolbar Separators (please consult README about this!!! - especially if toolbuttons seem to misbehave): +[well, seems you did :) +OK, the following Part is a bit tricky! +QT uses the Button Color to draw seperators on Toolbars. +Unfortunately we cannot change this directly, so we have to set the button color of Toolbar Widgets to the background color. +Unhappy Effect: Toolbuttons will lose the ability to highlight, as their Buttoncolor now changed to Background mode. (f***!) +Solution: We reset the the Buttoncolor of Toolbuttons to Buttoncolor right after that. +Unhappy Effect: Toolbuttons loose the ability to use redefined colors. +Solution: Check, if button uses backgroud for color: then reset it to button +Unhappy effect: An application cannot be redefine a Toolbutton color to background color. +(The alternative would be to exclude apps like korn, that are known to redefine toolbutton color, but i think, this is the MUCH better way!)] +- ...well now korn (and other apps) now also can have redefined toolbutton colors if you enable "draw toolbutton frames" (tststs..., sometimes i wonder if i can code anyway... :) +- added an option to remove bevel around kicker (user request) +- changed look of progressbar to fit apple's bevel rather than liquids +- added an option to user liquid's progressbar (user request, as an offer, on the new progress bar groove - tell me your opinion) + +0.3f +- menu translucency should now be PERFECT (i really like the word - howerver: never say never again... :) + this means: there won't be any ghostshadows anymore - no matter what you do. also no menu will be calculated twice if not nessecary (but don't forget: this is only pseudo translucency, this means, you won't capture background changes (animations aso.) as long as you don't close the menu) + Also menu dropshadows are supported +- scrollbars now change to active (with visual notification, what means they're colored) when you enter a scrollable area. (unfortunately currently doesn't work with some apps that don't inherit QScrollview - e.g. kwrite, so ill try to catch that) +- Kicker now draws (improved) smooth headers +- fixed rect buttons stucked to non stipple background (thanks to RenderMan for the notice) +- further minor graphical improvements... +- i hate the groupshadows... :) anyway, i found a rather simple solution to put a proper background to the buttons and sliders... (i could also apply this to the combos, but as they are almost rectangular, it wouldn't make much a difference. anyway: if someone is annoyed cause he runs a 320x240 ressolution, i'll improve that by request) +- removed any (virtual) support for kde menutranslucency, as it's really not a good idea to have both enabled at the same time... +- fixed an error to LVH triangles (thanks to Narcis Tesa for the hint) +- changed triangles on scrollbars and menus to fit listview expander look +- removed bevel around kicker for user request. i'll make that configurable with the next release. +- improved header hover behaviour after scrolling (on slight speed loss) - however it's still not perfect. (header hovering is a bit a hack and qt seems to have a problem with updating the header position...) +=========================================== ++++ you can download the new enchicked wallpaper from here: +http://stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uhvh/panther-jolene.png.bz2 + +0.3e +- added a slider to configure degree of saturation for icy buttons +- forcing rect buttons now also affects combos - for a more consistent look... +- menutranslucency improvement (1): + submenus won't be creatd multiple times, as long as lowest level menu is shown + this also holds (in most cases) for menubar-popups (e.g. when flying through your menus) +- menutranslucency improvement (2): + BE BANISHED TO WHERE THOU CAMEST FROM, HELLISH GHASTLY GRIM GHOSTSHADOWS ON POPUPMENUS !!! :) + (also improves menu buildup speed, as they are partially taken out of memory. btw, how's kde 3.2 state on this? - still nice ghosts?:) + (notice: the function isn't perfect, yet: menus are not overcaptured, therefore menushadows will still draw (slim white) artefacts. Also, you can trick it if you don't move left - right, but follow a bow above the menubar, as then the pixmapbuffer probably will be deleted - i'll try to fix this in the next release. for the moment, need you for beta-testing. so please tell me, if you find more drawing errors!) + +0.3d +- added more saturation to the icy buttons (icy buttons are now active by default - i think :) +- again brighter shadows for buttons and combos +- minor graphical changes (e.g. a toolbutton frame) +- option to force rectangular buttons (sorry 'eggnogg' - combos as buttons looked really crap, especially when buttons and combos appear at the same time) +- sunken button effect now wanted - therefore constant behaviour (they sometimes did funny things before) +- some codeimprovements... +- header + kicker (was there?) flicker resettled to nirvana +- solved renderman's problem with disaligned submenu triangles (with massive help of renderman, to state this) +- toolbuttons now also can have individual colors (affects e.g. korn) + +0.3c +- changed look of smooth LVH (hope RenderMan can live with that now...) ;-) +- no smooth LVH for kicker (looked crap because of the shadow) +- new Images for the buttons (but of same style) +- slightly reworked comboboxes (smoother shape, lighter shadow) +- set toolbuttons back to iTunes style - independent of the smooth LVH (thanks to Ercin Eker for the hint) +- added new widget coloring function (it's slower at app startup, but you'll need a profiler to notice that on a current computer) +- new button pressing effect (to be honest, this happened due an accident - originally i wanted to use the outline as an alternative hover but set a wrong if check..., however it now looks like glow effect - tell me your opinion) + +for multiple request: +============ +1. you can download binaries (NO WARRANTY they will work) from here: +http://stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uhvh/baghira-binary.tar.bz2 +2. you can download the enchicked version of the wallpaper from here: +http://stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uhvh/panther-padma.png.bz2 + +0.3b +- fixed menu translucency behaviour (veeeeeery stupid bug...) +- flattened the menu indicator + use of highlightened text (blame or thank RenderMan...) :) +- changed listheader indicator arrow +- stipples aligned by default - also, removed brute force alignment (leads to some very unhappy errors) - if you seea widget, that is disharmonic stippled: just drop me a mail! (groupboxes work... partially) - therefore "Align Stipples" option is (currently) useless... +- made and fixed a stupid bug tthat allmost costed my brain... ;-) (sometimes i'm really so stupid...) +- rectangular combos (e.g. html) are now rather combos - not complete highlighted buttons +- combos however are reworked and base upon their own pixmaps - not perfect at all... need better submittal?! +- you (RenderMan) can activate smoother ListViewHeaders - basing upon the new combos... +- fixed some minor bugs +================== += REQUEST !!! ========= +================== +Apple seems to use a nonlinear coloring process for buttons and stuff (e.g. light parts tend to be yellow). +Mosfet's linear coloring function results in quite flat Buttons. +If anyone can recommand good literature about coloring precesses - thanks ;-) +================================================================= +================================================================= + +0.3a +heyheyhey... consistent source (./configure;make;make install from topdir)... finally. YEAHHH BABY! +ok, now the important stuff: +- tabs now also follow inactive button style +- fixed a popupmenu bug (for aligned stipples) +- reworked the polishment process -> should be much faster now, also lost some errors (e.g. open juk with 0.3, did nobody see this??? ) +- added icons for the kcmdialog - just copy the iconfolders in "icons" to your icon-directory +- new "iTunes" styled rect buttons + +0.3 +- configdialog of course! +- new centerd tabs (thanks to shm for the patch) +- faster html (and other stuff?) scrolling +- fixed color error to the toolbar +- fixed major (but uncritical) bug to kicker (and child process) groupboxes +- other stuff i forgot... +================================================================================ +NOTES to configuration +---------------------------------- +- usually inactive buttons follow the background: therefore they can appear flat to very bright backgrounds (on black backgrounds on the other hand you won't see them anymore)... try to set them to "original" +- custom translucency doesn't work as it should (inverse behaviour, may overrun the defined area what leads to funny colors...) +- stipple alignement is only partially implemented - therefore it's not really slow (but won't work on groupboxes) +- centertabs should work on qt 3.1.2 and above. below this it's not tested (but may work anyway) +- "fasten the filebrowser" will lead to a stippled background (if you use stipples) and will remove the possibility to choose custom backgrounds +==================================================================================== + +0.2b +- Better Support for unstippled Background +- No more flicker ?! +- New Button behaviour (to hopefully get some feedback) +- more graphical stuff corrected (eg line near groupboxes) +- you now can configure the first items (kcm will follow soon, probably next few days) +to ~/.qt/qtrc add and modify: + +[Baghira] +drawDotlines=true +drawGroupBoxShadow=true +plusMinus=false +squeezeSbSlider=true +shadowSbSlider=false + +... not colors so far, as you would have to set hexdecimals... + +0.2a +- Fixed some graphical... insufficiencies (thanks, craigD) +- redid lines for listview so that Marcel can handle his massive email traffic again ;-) + (this will be choosable when the confdialog...) +- also triangles should look a bit cleaner now +- feedback for checkboxes and radiobuttons +- shadowed groups now won't fall to button color if you use the button color for menus +- about menu effects: fade in and animation happily works, as long as you don't use transparent menus + if you use transp menus, always the button color will be used for the effect. I *can* fix that - on a little speed loss. + However I do suggest to NOT use transparent menus with menu effects, as the menu will become more solid everytime you open it. + (Maybe I will support qt transparency for the unstippled menu in the future) + + + +0.2 +- new icons in listview (nice triangles instead of windows like '+' & '-', no lines) +- 3d effect for editlines +- removed shadows and annoying triangle from active button text +- changed scrollbar -> hover effect (sunken when pushed), more grippy + + +To the people who sign responsable for mosfet's parting: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +After working on mosfet's code for some days now, i think i'm really competent to say this. +I do not know, what you did or said or just why - but hey: you stole us a really great coder... shame on you. + + +mailto:baghira-style@gmx.net |