[dot] Quickies: SuperKaramba Theme Archive, Unified Desktop, Skype, RULE Mini KDE

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1088472154/

From: Fabrice Mous <fabricemous at kde.nl>
Dept: using-asterisks-now
Date: Tuesday 29/Jun/2004, @03:22

Quickies: SuperKaramba Theme Archive, Unified Desktop, Skype, RULE Mini KDE
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   Did you create a beautiful-looking SuperKaramba theme? Well get your
gem listed in the SuperKaramba Theme Archive
[http://www.superkaramba.com/]. SuperKaramba can be downloaded from the
usual website [http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/]. *** Unifying your
desktop seems like a hot topic these days. At KDE-look.org
[http://www.kde-look.org/] you can find an article
[http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=12859]  about how you
can achieve that cool Plastik look
[http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=12859&file1=12859-1.png&file2=12859-2.png&file3=12859-3.png&name=Unified+Plastik+desktop]
on all of your applications. *** There is even a project called
MetaTheme [http://jezek2.advel.cz/projects/metatheme/] which is
dedicated to unification of appearance between different graphics
toolkits, such as GTK and Qt. *** Well they said they would do it and
they delivered. Skype [http://www.skype.com/] released  their first beta
version of Skype for Linux [http://www.skype.com/download_linux.html]
based on the Qt toolkit
[http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html] which makes this
[http://developer.kde.org/~binner/mirror/www.xs4all.nl/~leintje/stuff/skype/snapshot4.png]
baby
[http://developer.kde.org/~binner/mirror/www.xs4all.nl/~leintje/stuff/skype/snapshot10.png]
blend in to your KDE desktop. *** I noticed this project called Rule
[http://www.rule-project.org/] with the goal of making  Free Software
run on older hardware. The RULE Mini KDE page
[http://www.rule-project.org/article.php3?id_article=59] shows how to do
this with KDE and they even explain  how you could configure a minimal
Qt library [http://www.rule-project.org/article.php3?id_article=58] that
still supports KDE 3.2.