Yakuake “Air” Theme

Well, I still don’t have the MoarConky OpenBox themepack ready yet (I forgot about a minor licensing issue, which I’m taking care of – updates to come), but I’ve been working on a theme for Yakuake, KDE’s drop-down Konsole.  There don’t seem to be very many good quality themes out there that are also modern in appearance; in particular, I was mildly annoyed that no one had created a theme to match the “Air” Plasma theme in the upcoming KDE 4.3 release.  So, I decided to take up the task myself.  After a lot of trial and error to get things looking right, I ended up with what I’m releasing as v0.9 of the themepack, which can be found here, on KDE-Look.org.

Yakuake "Air" Theme

I’m not entirely sure I’m happy with the tabbar, but it will do for now.  There is one issue with it right now, which is why this release is labelled as 0.9 rather than 1.0: after adjusting the transparency of the corner images for the titlebar, only the top half of the corners would render properly, and one can click through the bottom half to windows behind.  This has me rather annoyed, but I haven’t yet figured out what the problem is. :/  This theme was inspired by Plasma’s Air theme, but is my own work, and I’m releasing it under a Creative Commons CC-By-SA license, as with most of my content.  Feel free to modify it to your heart’s content, but please do me the favour of posting a comment here so I can see what people are making of it.  Full SVG Source files are here.  If anyone knows why the corners aren’t rendering properly, please post a comment here, or on the KDE-Look.org page, and let me know.

As always, I like to hear what people think of my work… good?  bad?  needs improvement?  Let me know!

- The Ffej

Moar Conky!

This will be short, because I’m tired.  I just wanted to show off the desktop theme I’ve been working on.  I tried OpenBox for the first time, primarily because of the awesome work on http://ghost1227.com/.  Those themes required a bit more setup than I was used to in DEs like KDE or GNOME, and this caused me to mess around with Conky and Tint2.  My conclusion after doing so was, NEEDZ MOAR CONKY!  So, I went to work.  I couldn’t do what I wanted with my systray with Tint2, so I ended up using Trayer for the systray, and Tint2 for the clock and top panel.  I used Conky for everything else; the silver panels, diagram lines, and icons are all part of the wallpaper, which I put together using GIMP.  The laptop was derived from a CC-licensed photo on Flickr (Thanks!), primarily because I was too lazy to take a good photograph of my own laptop (it is the same model, after all), and the device icons were derived from the KDE project’s “mono” icon theme (Also Thanks!) – oh, and the Arch Linux logo is obviously from the Arch folks (Thanks too!).

Oh right… you’re probably expecting pictures after all of this build-up… Fine – here they are:  (photos linked to Flickr pages)

My Desktop - with Moar Conky!

Moar Conky and Yakuake!

As a note, this was mainly a fun project, to experiment with apps I hadn’t used before, OpenBox, and GIMP.  The panels were heavily inspired by the Technolust theme here (although drawn myself), and the rest was heavily inspired by Hollywood’s portrayal of computers (now to work on the animated, 3D version of nmap!  …Oh wait…).

Let me know what you think in the comments!

-The Ffej