[SOLVED] Glassy Window Decoration

Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:28 am

Hi! I'm glad to have finally found a useful forum for Kubuntu help! (I come from ocforums.com) My question is about window decorations.. With Emerald/Compiz I can achieve the glassy look just fine, but I saw another post on here where KWin was noted to be superior than either of those. No reason was given, but no one refuted the claim, so I assume it's common knowledge. Knowing this, and just assuming KWin is more lightweight/efficient, I've been trying to find a way to get glassy decorations! I only found 3-4 KDE 4 decorations on kde-look.org, and the most promising looked like Crystal 2.0. I installed it (through Adept, because I couldn't get cmake to work) and even enabled Translucency for decorations, but I don't think it was really designed for that, as even the text is translucent (oops!). So unfortunately, it just doesn't quite cut it. My taskbar looks exactly like I want my window decorations to be (I'm using the Arezzo plasma theme), if maybe there's a way to achieve that look with the decorations? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Also, it doesn't have to be a Vista/7 Clone. I'd be fine with Plastik, as long as it had a glassy look to it similar to Arezzo's.

As a side note, if KWin's superiority is actually trivial, and if it saves everyone a lot of trouble, suggesting that I stick to Emerald is A-okay!

Thanks!

Gotaro Registered Member Posts 46 Karma 0 OS	[SOLVED] Glassy Window Decoration Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:28 am Hi! I'm glad to have finally found a useful forum for Kubuntu help! (I come from ocforums.com) My question is about window decorations.. With Emerald/Compiz I can achieve the glassy look just fine, but I saw another post on here where KWin was noted to be superior than either of those. No reason was given, but no one refuted the claim, so I assume it's common knowledge. Knowing this, and just assuming KWin is more lightweight/efficient, I've been trying to find a way to get glassy decorations! I only found 3-4 KDE 4 decorations on kde-look.org, and the most promising looked like Crystal 2.0. I installed it (through Adept, because I couldn't get cmake to work) and even enabled Translucency for decorations, but I don't think it was really designed for that, as even the text is translucent (oops!). So unfortunately, it just doesn't quite cut it. My taskbar looks exactly like I want my window decorations to be (I'm using the Arezzo plasma theme), if maybe there's a way to achieve that look with the decorations? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Also, it doesn't have to be a Vista/7 Clone. I'd be fine with Plastik, as long as it had a glassy look to it similar to Arezzo's. As a side note, if KWin's superiority is actually trivial, and if it saves everyone a lot of trouble, suggesting that I stick to Emerald is A-okay! Thanks!
Zarin KDE Developer Posts 345 Karma 8 OS	[SOLVED] Glassy Window Decoration Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:59 am KWin currently doesn't support ARGB decorations which is a requirement for "glass" decorations. We plan to add support in KDE 4.3 though.
Gotaro Registered Member Posts 46 Karma 0 OS	[SOLVED] Glassy Window Decoration Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:45 pm Zarin wrote:KWin currently doesn't support ARGB decorations which is a requirement for "glass" decorations. We plan to add support in KDE 4.3 though. Okay, thanks. I guess I'll just stick to Emerald. Is there a list somewhere of the pros/cons of different window decorators?