karamba equivalent

DrOzz · 06-18-2003, 07:20 PM

ok, from what i understand karamba is used with kde, is there an equivalent for use with gnome?

rmartine · 06-18-2003, 10:34 PM

You should be able to us Karamba with Gnome if you have the Kde libs installed. Karamba was developed for Kde and I don't think Gnome has caught up in the eye-candy department.

hehe

mhearn · 06-19-2003, 04:01 AM

Karamba should run under GNOME. If it is not properly transparent, then you need to ask the karamba developers to use the E root window pixmap protocol, instead of talking directly to KDesktop (or do it yourself)

DrOzz · 06-19-2003, 11:55 AM

alright well we'll see what happens

DrOzz · 06-19-2003, 12:17 PM

ahhh well nothing new, the good ol error 1 and 2 during the make...

DrOzz · 06-19-2003, 10:39 PM

well yes i finally got it, i had to update kde to > 3.1, and karamba runs in gnome, but there is no point in doing it...all it does is make changes to the KDE bases programs such as konqueror, kmail, etc.... the taskbar doesn't change there is no transparency or anything....

BigBadPenguin · 07-28-2003, 07:22 PM

I was also wondering about using (super)karamba outside kde. I'm using waimea and love the transparency and configurability, I'm enjoying digging a little deeper every day.
Super karamba seems interesting, and i like what i've seen so far, but as you said uses kdesktop to do its pseudo-transparency - and i can't stand using kde. Googling it i came across this :
http://dot.kde.org/1052090294/105216...79/#1052169938
which said:

Quote:

To create a transparent widget, construct a KRootPixmap and pass it a
* pointer to your widget. That's it! Moving, resizing and background changes
* are handled automatically.
*
* Instead of using the default behaviour, you can ask KRootPixmap
* to emit a @ref backgroundUpdated(const QPixmap &) signal whenever
* the background needs updating by using @ref setCustomPainting(bool).
* Alternatively by reimplementing @ref updateBackground(KSharedPixmap*)
* you can take complete control of the behaviour.

sounds easy right?

What i'm basically wondering is if i can use the KRootPixmap header directly from the python file in my super karamba theme, or if this is something that has to be added to superkaramba itself.
As you may have guessed i know nothing about python.

If any one can give me a clue about this, i'd be very grateful.

BigBadPenguin · 08-14-2003, 01:49 PM

Well, if you guys haven't heard, there is an almost equivalent prog for gnome now available called gdesklets, it hasn't yet got the same level of contributions from themers, but its looking and working great on my desktop.

sorrodos · 08-14-2003, 01:54 PM

Slashdot [slashdot.org] had a discussion on gdesklets a couple days ago. They are supposed to work great and were created specifically for Gnome.

Here's the link to the discussion.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...tid=189&tid=99