How do you re add the classic window decorations. I hate mostly all the KDE5 themes and that ugly gray crap with circular buttons, and cant figure out how to load classic ones. Here is a example. The one labeled KDE2 Decoration is what I want to set in Plasma 5. Don't see why they would remove a good looking decoration there must be some way to get it back. Nothing compares kind of my deal breaker for now till I can figure out how to make it work. Otherwise plasma 5 is pretty advanced.


http://imgur.com/a/9N7Ri

Did you delete the window decorations?
Do you think the upgrade to KDE 5 removed your window decorations you had set?

Try the defaults button and look at your options and reset if you have to.

If that doesn't work highlight the KDE2 window and than click apply and than ok.
It may take some tweaking and trying different settings to get what you want.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/57634...ow-decorations
http://www.iwf1.com/give-kde-plasma-...customization/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE

HTH

I'm not aware of one that looks like the theme you want, but in Settings > Application Style > Window Decorations, click on "Get new decorations" and search for simplicity and re-tabstrip. I think you might like those if you liked the old KDE2 decorations.

Looks like they made some major changes to how decorations work on kde5 so I wont be able to get kde2 look and feel. Also it seems you cant change out the right click menu drop down icons to the older color icons. I will just forego using plasma 5 and stick to kde4 for now and have qt5 installed so I can use future apps. I compiled a copy of TDE for myself and did like it but it was kinda buggy so not really ready for day to day use. Gonna call this one case closed.

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Bummer:-

Don't forget to go up to 'thread tools' and mark your thread SOLVED.

I've made an initial port of that theme to KDE5: https://github.com/repos-holder/kdecoration2-kde2
Will improve it during usage.

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Thanks!

Sweet I will give it a try sometime this week. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks for your putting time into such things.

OK, cool:-
You're Welcome.

No problems! I've started with KDE2 on Red Hat 7.2, so it was a pleasure to bring that decoration back to the modern KDE. Thankfully, KDE5 developers created a sample decoration code to port parts of old decoration over it, so it was not long

I appreciate your work on this it works fine just fine. I was unable to get the source version to build perhaps I had to change something in the cmakelist I tried cmake ./src. Might have been incorrect syntax. I still wonder why KDE5 changed to black and white icons but I guess I can deal with that. Feels less creatively made. Can any part of the system be modded for instance if I wanted to swap out my icons in those menus or are they something that would need to be coded/compiled as well?

Also for those running slackware the location of plugins is at /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/org.kde.kdecoration2/


http://imgur.com/a/7z1kd Here is a screenshot of me using your decor in a plasma 5 system.

See https://github.com/repos-holder/kdec...ster/README.md
These icons just like other icons in KDE are defined by Icon Theme. Oxygen should be a good go.
More themes via System Settings -> Icons -> Get new Theme.

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Cool That was what I was wondering how to do this whole time, that right click menu now has colored icons. Here is a pic of a working desktop I changed the pannel to oxygen, used a random icon for the start button since its a live cd and doesn't have everything on it. I may give a shot at migrating to kde5 at some point soon. Got to backup my system first in case I mess something up. Thanks very much for the replies.

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