Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

[timkb4cq]

http://mxrepo.com/snapshots
That's where his previous KDE iso was.

[Jerry3904]

Great. So I will change the Wiki link to the folder and never have to change it again.

[Stevo]

Looks heaps better. Nice work.
The cosmetic changes you made should be documented so they can be added to the KDE on MX Wiki.

This will not necessarily detract from your work, keep this up and you'll have a new baby on your hands Stevo. Babies need feeding, discipline and grow

I just used the Crystal window decoration and then changed its color to black in the KDE Colors settings. Crystal is set to have some transparency , so some of the blue background is coming through in my screenshot, but it would be pure black if the opacity were set to 100%, or compositing switched off. I could export the color settings to a file--I think the whole desktop scheme, including the wallpaper, can also be exported.

[Stevo]

I use KDE4 desktop the most, I enjoy fiddling with it, with a lot to fiddle with.

Especially the qtcurve style. You can even use an image as the background, so you can use carbon fiber or wood, such as this Steampunk theme did: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/?content=148276

I also like the vector-based style "kde-style-kvantum": http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Kv ... ent=166241

for which I just sent the latest 0.9.5 to the test repo. That's one of the few packages I've created from raw source, instead of reusing debianized source. I've also done a separate Qt 5 version, but it doesn't seem to work--from what I gather, it would need at least Qt 5.4 for theming to work, and we just have 5.3.

There are some interesting plasma widgets locally installed in the ISO, such as the "adjustable clock". One of its themes is the old flip-style clock, like the clock radio in "Groundhog Day".

[Jerry3904]

Mike's suggestion of documentation is a good one... Only takes a minute.

[Stevo]

Well, here's a <1K zip of the "MX15.colors" scheme that can be imported into the settings:



Some window decorations, notably the default Oxygen one, don't seem to allow the user to adjust their colors, though.

[v3g4n]

Couple of thoughts for consideration:
Bluedevil instead of Blueman - Bluedevil is the official bluetooth stack for kde and integrates much better than blueman. Just to show I included a screenshot with blueman on the left and bluedevil is in between the volume icon and network icon. In my tests bluedevil has worked fine.
Add a volume icon to the system tray. I installed kmix since it is the official volume control and mixer for kde, but veromix is already installed and would be fine.

Not to sure if the goal is to be a kde centric mx install or if it is just to provide a default mx install with the choice between kde or xfce without changing the default apps to much?

[Stevo]

Not to sure if the goal is to be a kde centric mx install or if it is just to provide a default mx install with the choice between kde or xfce without changing the default apps to much?

The original goal was just to have a nice working KDE session out of the box, with addons that I'd have installed, such as the root actions, but lately I'm leaning toward making it more KDE-centric. I would like to keep the nice MX 15 xfce desktop as a more battery-friendly xsession option for laptop users--do you know how Bluedevil works on the xfce4 desktop?

I'm also probably going to upgrade the kernel in the next snapshot to the latest one in backports.

[v3g4n]

I have tested bluedevil by sending pictures, music and videos from my phone to my laptop and vice versa and all have worked fine for me. Now the issue I can see though is that the icon is difficult to see in the default xfce. Excuse the picture of my kitty that I used to show that the transfer from my phone to laptop worked, even though now that I think about it proves nothing since I could have just opened a picture from my hardrive, but you can see bluedevil in the picture or not. HAHA!

[Stevo]

I'm fiddling around with the respin, applying updates, installing bluedevil and mx-clocky, sticking veromix, bluedevil, and the battery monitor on the taskbar, as well as a custom MX button for the application launcher. I've also updated the kernel to 4.3, plus SMTube and Asunder to the versions in the test repo. I'm also trying to have a dark color scheme for KDE apps running as root, so they stand out, and improve the font rendering for root, plus have the font schemes for the standard user and root match. I hope files in /root get carried over by the snapshot process.