Hi all, thanks in advance for any advice.
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What I’m trying to do is recreate AmigaOS 1.x→4.1 theme, I’m starting with 3.x
Before I dive to deep into this situation, is it even possible to get to 1:1, of course anything is possible, but as KDE 6.5 sits right now can it be done?
Kind Regards
There are icons floating around - I think those are the biggest aspect of the theming as they were mostly hyper realistic and mostly very attractive (I still use a few).
The rest - mostly very flat panels and pretty ugly windows… you’d need skeumorphic styling for windows and probably a kvantum theme to get the rest looking similar.
Mostly the theming was similar to early Windows (i.e. dark/light edging to give the depth/3d perception).
Efforts have already been made, so maybe find existing themes as a starting point.
- icons/cursors [got that sorted that’s the easy parts]
yes, efforts have they all apply to window managers not “kde / plasma”, xfce4 has some darling ones that would just slide on in, but of course I have an issue as to why I don’t just switch to xfce4, the major issue being and it seems to only work right in KDE/Plasma 6.5 my backdrop is an emulated AmigaOS running OS3.2.3 it stays there, with the KDE apps running on top of it quite nicely, you try this sort of tomfoolery, lunacy or just plain insanity on any other lxqt, fluxbox, xfce? the window either sits in the background and is instantly raised to the front or it just refuse to go to the back to begin with.
Which brings us right back to where it does work, nicely. KDE / Plasma & Wayland, and my initial question which was far simpler, ‘work load’ isn’t the issue the functionality of “KDE / Plasma & Wayland” to be able to visually do such a thing in the first place becomes the primary interest before even trying to ‘work’ on it.
One thought I had was, we’ve moved to vector art for designing stuff nice touch but I wonder if I could grab some bitmaps and use those instead? from my research Breeze primarily the only thing I’ve been able to deduce, is that the art is setup in a way that the user can define its color, so can we only do art that is 2 colors and just a shape, or can we define it however?
Interesting. kvantum allows ‘advanced’ (or more brute force), though less efficient (old style) theming:
And ‘Skeumorphic’ is a basic vocabulary word available in any dictionary… if you’re having trouble here, then perhaps this might be over your head.
It’s trivial to visit your kvantum and/or plasma themes to see how they’re made, and then work out how to make a new one.
It would be extremely complicated for someone to try to give you a simple answer on how to do it.
I started with Linux Mint, looking at how to change details of window decorations, you have to learn how to edit and/or create/modify SVG image files…
