Making KDE look like MacOS X
 

Hiya,

I'm getting a little bored with how my Fedora Core 2 KDE 3.2 system is looking. Having never owned a Mac but always liked how they look, I thought I would try and imitate the MacOS X GUI.

Has anyone got a good customized MacOS GUI that could offer advice? I've tried some themes from kde-look.org but I've never had much joy from those guys.

Also, a Mac style launch bar (i.e. growing icons, transparent bar etc.) would be really nice. I've heard of Karamba but not sure what it's all about.

Step by step instructions are always welcome :-) I'm not a computer newbie by any means, but I find customizing KDE extremely frustrating. Any help you can offer may prevent me throwing my laptop out the window due to stress! :-p

Many thanks,

Mike :)

the only apps i've be able to find that are similar to what you're talking about are for windows...

Hi

You can try using Baghira. It is a window decoration and style theme and it mimics very well mac os x. For the taskbar you can try tweaking kde native task bar and you can have it transparent, centered and magnified icons when you roll over them.

Since you're not a linux newbie I think you all you need is 20 mins. and you'll have the gui as you would like. But if you still can't manage to do it just reply and I'll post an how-to. I won't now because I have some work to do.

Bye

If you throw that laptop out the window, I'll be there waiting to catch it :D

Baghira looks really good - I'm going to use it on FC3 later today.

It lives at http://baghira.sourceforge.net/

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies.

I've tried to install Baghire but with little success. I've followed the standard ./configure, make and make install routine (also specified the KDE prefix). Unfortunately, I receive errors during the make stage. Are there any dependencies I should know about?

This is what I get towards the end:

baghiraclient.moc:217: error: incomplete type `QMetaData' does not have member
`Public'
baghiraclient.moc:218: error: elements of array `const QMetaData signal_tbl[]'
have incomplete type
baghiraclient.moc:218: error: uninitialized const `signal_tbl'
baghiraclient.moc:218: error: storage size of `signal_tbl' isn't known
baghiraclient.moc:219: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `metaObj' with no
type
baghiraclient.moc:219: error: redefinition of `int metaObj'
baghiraclient.moc:128: error: `int metaObj' previously defined here
baghiraclient.moc:227: error: incomplete type 'QMetaObject' cannot be used to
name a scope
baghiraclient.moc:228: error: syntax error before `.' token
baghiraclient.moc:233: error: cannot declare member function `
Baghira::BaghiraClient::qt_cast' within `BaghiraButton::QConnection'
baghiraclient.moc:233: error: syntax error before `{' token
baghiraclient.moc:241: error: cannot declare member function `
Baghira::BaghiraClient::hide' within `BaghiraButton::QConnection'
baghiraclient.moc:241: error: syntax error before `{' token
baghiraclient.moc:246: error: cannot declare member function `
Baghira::BaghiraClient::qt_invoke' within `BaghiraButton::QConnection'
baghiraclient.moc:246: error: syntax error before `{' token
baghiraclient.moc:261: error: cannot declare member function `
Baghira::BaghiraClient::qt_emit' within `BaghiraButton::QConnection'
baghiraclient.moc:261: error: syntax error before `{' token
baghiraclient.moc:272: error: cannot declare member function `
Baghira::BaghiraClient::qt_property' within `BaghiraButton::QConnection'
baghiraclient.moc:272: error: syntax error before `{' token
baghiraclient.moc:276: error: cannot declare member function `
Baghira::BaghiraClient::qt_static_property' within `
BaghiraButton::QConnection'
baghiraclient.moc:276: error: syntax error before `{' token
make[3]: *** [baghiraclient.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/miklee/tars/baghira-0.6d/deco'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/miklee/tars/baghira-0.6d/deco'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/miklee/tars/baghira-0.6d'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any help you could offer would be gratefully received :-)

Many thanks,

Mike :)

For an OSX style "zoomy" dock, I've used kooldock (got it from KDE-look).

The reason you're having such a frustrating time installing things is that you're not installing from easy to use packages. Since you're running an rpm-based Linux distribution, you should ideally be looking for .rpm's to install. There are a lot of them on KDE-look!

I use Debian, so I look for .deb packages or debian repositories.

It can be frustrating installing things from the source code from some place like KDE-look or Sourceforge where it's usually just a one person hobby project without much "debugging". It's better to wait for someone to put together a package for you linux distro--that person has worked out the distro-specific kinks for you!

The suse version of the packages on sourceforge.net are missing. All to often I find missing files on sourcefore and ALL their mirrors. Are these guys amateurs and/or are they giving up the ghost? This certainly doesn't seem professional. Not only that they know it is missing but they are not correcting it.

if you really like a good look of your x systems.
Then gentoo and fvwm is a good choice

I think Enlightenment might help you get closer to the look and feel of mac os.

I've managed to get Baghira to install and it looks pretty good.

kooldock also works very well for the MacOS lauch bar (Thanks for that IsaacKuo).

Many thanks to everyone for all your help :-)

Mike :)