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calande

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Friday, June 2nd 2006, 2:54am

Directory of widgets images

I'd like to change the way KDE looks: bars, buttons, radio buttons, checkboxes, tabs, etc... There's gotta be a directory that hosts these images. Do you know where it is?

Do you know a how-to that could help me please?
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Charles.

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Friday, June 2nd 2006, 4:11am

Widgets are changed in KDE through the Style module in KControl (KControl > Appearance and Themes > Style). For each style, there's a corresponding preview of what the widgets would look like.

If you want to look for more styles, you can check out http://www.kde-look.org in the Themes/Styles sections.
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Friday, June 2nd 2006, 3:55pm

Thank you. Actually this is not exactly what I'm looking for. I want maybe to create my own themes. If with a theme I can change the way tabs look like (corners, height, etc...), then let's go for it ;)

How can I create a theme?
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Charles.

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Monday, June 5th 2006, 4:56pm

Sorry I couldn't get back to you ASAP. I'm not sure about this, but I think that you need to do a bit of programming to make widgets, because widgets are more like mini-programs than just images. So I guess you'd have to learn a bit of KDE programming and Qt (which is the toolkit used by KDE) to do that. But, like I said, I'm not too sure.

Btw, just some clarification of some terms used in KDE

widgets - these are the tabs, buttons, progress bars, drop down menus, etc.
style - the appearance of widgets, can also be called widget style
theme - over-all appearance of the whole desktop, which includes the desktop background, color schemes, (widget) styles, icons, fonts, and screensavers.
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