![]() ![]() This is not a big deal since I hide most of the system tray icons. Icons in system tray does not scale, so their bottoms are cropped off. ![]() ![]() There are some caveats using OS X style menubar in KDE. This behavior took some used to, but I think I am liking it because it makes application windows look cleaner and takes less screen space. Now the menu of KDE application with current mouse focus will show up in the menubar. Following Baghira theme's instruction, I added Baghira's Starter to the menubar. ![]() So I removed all of the panel's content, and set it to auto hide at a corner so it won't bother me any more. I did that, but the old KDE panel was still around and it was not possible to remove it. OS X style menubar One can set up an OS X style menubar on top of screen in KDE Control Center -> Desktop -> Behavior. In the end I chose "dreamtiger-baghira" as it matches Baghira theme. I tried them one by one, and found at least three OS X imitators. Launch emerald-theme-manager tool, one can download GPL or non GPL'ed themes. Sure enough, there are quite a few emerald themes that can do that. It would be great if emerald has an OS X looking theme. Of course, compiz-fusion can use kwin as window decorator, but it's less stable than emerald, compiz's own window decorator. Right click it to open configuration screen.Ĭompiz window decoration Since I use compiz-fusion as my default window manager, Baghira theme's own kwin decoration settings does not work. One can launch bab from from command line and find it in the system tray. This theme can be further configured using a tool called bab. Now you should get Tiger look and feel for all the KDE widgets. Also, go one step up to Colors, and change Color Scheme to Aqua Blue. Once it's installed, launch KDE Control Center -> Appearance and Themes -> Style, and change Widget Style to Baghira. It's so popular that Debian sid has it in the pool, soĪs root should get it installed. There is a KDE theme called Baghirathat does just that. KDE widget Basically, getting an OS X Tiger look and feel on KDE involves installing a theme that imitates its look and feel. It turned out to be relatively easy to do. So when I was feeling tired of Mepis Linux's default look last night, I decided to try an OS X look for a change. The user interface of Apple's OS is said to be one of the selling points. I remember seeing some kids shouting hysterically in front of Apple store on the release day of Tiger a few years ago. Date Wed 05 December 2007 By Huahai Tags LinuxĪlthough I have never laid my hands on an Apple computer, I have seen people going crazy about them. ![]()
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