New Kubuntu KSplash theme

[Patrick]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

Hmm, done all those, get to ./configure and hit this:

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

Obviously I am missing a dev package, but which one?

libx11-dev

Your kdmrc file should be in /etc/kde3/kdm/
Three-quarters of the way through that file there should be a line like:

Theme=/home/patrick/.kde/share/apps/kdm/themes/"THEMEFOLDER"

Edit it so that it points to your new theme.

~ Patrick

[thumper]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

Thanks Patrick.

Instead of editing the kdmrc file, I just moved the old /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/kubuntu and untarred the file there.

Still can't compile moodin. I've added in the libx11-dev package, but still getting

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

[thumper]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

The configure check is looking for the header X11/Intrinsic.h

A quick google and it seems to be in the libxt-dev package.

Going to install it and try again.

[thumper]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

It now has a problem finding libXext

I found libXext.so.6 in /usr/lib, so perhaps a symlink from that to libXext.so should fix it.
The versioned shared object libraries are one thing that I have never fully got my head around. I thought that it would use the .so.6 version...

Another missing package maybe?

[dentaku65]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

Hi,
very nice one and is even quicker than the default one.
Just a question: there is a way to change the background (blue area) and leave the foreground loading on my desktop background?

regards

[jbus]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

Hi,
very nice one and is even quicker than the default one.
Just a question: there is a way to change the background (blue area) and leave the foreground loading on my desktop background?

regards

To use your own choice of wallpaper as the background, open up your wallpaper in the Gimp and then open the bg.png file in the "Source Images" folder as a new layer. Then just export the resulting image to /usr/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/KubuntuUltraSplash. Be sure to name it Background.png... That's it

[dentaku65]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

To use your own choice of wallpaper as the background, open up your wallpaper in the Gimp and then open the bg.png file in the "Source Images" folder as a new layer. Then just export the resulting image to /usr/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/KubuntuUltraSplash. Be sure to name it Background.png... That's it

thanks! did it...

[Patrick]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

The links here ( http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=25705 ) are dead if they worked I would have made a .deb

EDIT: My package is being reviewed! http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=842

[Patrick]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

OK, my packages has been successfully reviewed and moved to dapper's universe:

Package: ksplash-engine-moodin
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kde
Installed-Size: 876
Maintainer: Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpatrickdavies@gmail.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.4.2-0ubuntu1
Depends: kdelibs4c2 (>= 4:3.4.3), ksplash (>= 4:3.4.3), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.2), libice6, libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.5), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2-4), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Filename: pool/universe/k/ksplash-engine-moodin/ksplash-engine-moodin_0.4.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
Size: 675982
MD5sum: fe28d09434de51b5e64242e947f01fad
Description: Fading KDE splash screen engine
 This KDE splash screen engine is based upon Linspire's
 engine by Sean Meiners <Sean.Meiners@LinspireInc.com>
 Homepage: [url]http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=25705[/url]
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

jbus: I was going to include your theme in the package but it's license conflicted with GPL so Riddell said "later".

[malbicho]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

Hey jbus you did a great job with this splash, thank you I'm using it 8)

[chadwick359]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

Great theme, but I was wondering, is it possible to change the icons to the arrows used in the standard Kubuntu splash? I never really liked the splash showing icons like that on logon. Unfortunatley, I have little to no clue how to do this. Any feedback would be appreciated.

[jbus]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

jbus: I was going to include your theme in the package but it's license conflicted with GPL so Riddell said "later".

I plan on releasing an updated version in the next week or so. I'll switch the licence to GPL when I do that.

[jbus]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

I just uploaded Kubuntu Ultra Splash 1.5 & Kubuntu Ultra KDM 1.5

http://kdelook.org/content/show.php?content=29331
http://kdelook.org/content/show.php?content=29426

[img width=400 height=360]http://kdelook.org/content/pre2/29426-2.png[/img][img width=400 height=360]http://kdelook.org/content/pre2/29331-2.png[/img]
[img width=400 height=320]http://kdelook.org/content/pre1/29331-1.png[/img]

[bandit]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

Looks really nice..

[jbus]

Re: New Kubuntu KSplash theme

Thanks bandit,

I updated it this morning to fix a font size issue. Current version is 1.5.1