your KDE (screenshots)

[vw72]

I have "Task Manager" (the regular one), "Smooth Tasks" and "Fancy Tasks". Fancy Tasks has crashed plasma-desktop twice in 3 minutes of experimenting so I'm not going to do much with it now. Which task manager exactly?

I couldn't see the unity-style triangles at the sides of the active window on any of them.

It is actually called "Icon-Only Task Manager." On my widget list, it comes after Hardware Temperature and before Incoming Message. I haven't used the task manager's you mentioned.

[SecretCode]

add the icon-only task manager from the widgets

I have "Task Manager" (the regular one), "Smooth Tasks" and "Fancy Tasks". Fancy Tasks has crashed plasma-desktop twice in 3 minutes of experimenting so I'm not going to do much with it now. Which task manager exactly?

I couldn't see the unity-style triangles at the sides of the active window on any of them.

[vw72]

... to save me searching, what is the panel/plasmoid on the left looking like the Unity launcher?

Just stick a panel on the left and add the icon-only task manager from the widgets to it. In the settings of the widget, you can set various options. Anyway, that is how I did it with mine, and I assume cynical did with theirs. (Difference being I was going for a gnome-shell look versus Unity).

[SecretCode]

My Unity-style Kubuntu Desktop (a few variations)

... to save me searching, what is the panel/plasmoid on the left looking like the Unity launcher?

[lucazade]

Kubuntu 12.10 Quantal
KDE 4.9.1
Plasma theme: Caledonia
Plasma icon laucher: kde built-in

[woodsmoke]

thankee for the clarification benee-fletch.

And I wasn't really implying anything about you it was pointed more to other people that may not have used the old Debian #!.

woodsmoke

[cynical]

My Unity-style Kubuntu Desktop (a few variations)

[vw72]

Here ar my recent desktops from my eeePC netbook. My own modification based on http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...ake-on-kubuntu

[benny_fletch]

Aaaahhh running conky I see!!

I always loved conky when I ran #! but never really got it to where it was as "zippy" in Ubu, and deriviatives, as it was in #!.

Also, for people who are Ubuists and not bangers so much, getting a good looking conky is kinda hard for the new person.

Would you care to post your conky.rc for others to peruse?

woodalwayslikedlookingatconkyrcssmoke

If you are replying to my post, no, it is not conky. It is a script I modified from a karamba theme called compact. For more information you can refer to here:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...?content=32643

Naturally, it has changed since my last release on KDE-Look.org, if you are interested I can post a link to the updated file (compressed of course). It does require the plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba package.

Also, I am not as new as I appear

[HalationEffect]

Here's my current desktop:

[woodsmoke]

Aaaahhh running conky I see!!

I always loved conky when I ran #! but never really got it to where it was as "zippy" in Ubu, and deriviatives, as it was in #!.

Also, for people who are Ubuists and not bangers so much, getting a good looking conky is kinda hard for the new person.

Would you care to post your conky.rc for others to peruse?

woodalwayslikedlookingatconkyrcssmoke

[benny_fletch]

Here's a screenshot of my laptop's setup (not sure how to add the image within the post, thus the attachment).

A full size version can be found here:
http://www.recommendeddose.net/img/kubuntu.png

[woodsmoke]

Kubu desktop, modified Amarok, transparency

Hi
Here's a typical layout for my desktop with the transparency working as per the previous dicussions.

One might notice:

a) I modified Amarok with a new default icon for "no cover", it has a "drawing" of "the Beast of Bray Road" with the word Amarok on it.(kinda hard to see the word Amarok.)

Amarok is streaming "Darkerradio" which often does not have a fetch for an album cover, the group is Nachtmar.

b) Amarok is only showing the context.

c) The desktop is in "activities" mode, this one is the "desktop".

d) The transparency for the document and the folder for the document in the file structure.( from the below tips, thanks guys! )

e) the "Rocket Launcher" widget scaled with other than the default apps in it.

Here is a clickable thumbnail to the Photobucket smaller view:



Here is the linky to ImageShack larger image if one want's to view it.

http://imageshack.us/f/651/bluescreenywamaroknew.png/

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

whatthefunk

Hey, thanks for the tip. I installed oxygen transparent and it works quite well.

However, I did notice that with my old Nvidia 6600-256 GeForce card that interacting with windows, clicking, moving, etc. seems just a "tad" "laggy", and that may just be a mis-apprehension on my part.

But it does work! thanks!

woodsmoke

[Snowhog]

Thanks.