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JohnGalt

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From: United States of America

Registered: 2007-02-08

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How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

Can anyone tell me how I can get the "Suse" look for KDE onto my Arch KDE, especially the menu style?
I have searched kde-look.org, but found nothing that would help. I don't normally use KDE(I like Fluxbox w/ ROX), but have recently installed openSuse on my daughters PC and found that I like the look of KDE on that particular distro, but I will not give up Arch just to see that style of KDE.
I will not give up Fluxbox/ROX, either. Thought I would experiment with another HDD.

This is obviously not a serious issue for me, but I still would be interested if someone can help.

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

take a look at kdemod
http://kdemod.ath.cx/

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floke

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Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

Re: How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

AFAIK kdemod no longer provides the SuSE menu, since it became too much of a PITA for the devs to maintain.
You have to try to compile it yourself if you want it, so good luck with that !

funkyou

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2006-03-19

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Re: How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

Kickoff is in the AUR...

If you want it, do this:

1. Fetch, build and install liblazy: http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/svn/branches/k … d-liblazy/
2. Fetch kdemod-kdebase-kickoff from AUR and build it: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15527

My opinion about kickoff: Not worth the hassle/hype (still?), but people have different tastes

EDIT: typos

Last edited by funkyou (2008-05-06 21:40:17)

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want a modular and tweaked KDE for arch? try kdemod

JohnGalt

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From: United States of America

Registered: 2007-02-08

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Re: How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

Thanks for the information.

I have tried kdemod and have not had much success with it.
Like I said ,  this is not a serious issue with me. I'll stick with my reliable Flux/ROX.

Thanks again for the responses.

Last edited by JohnGalt (2008-05-07 02:29:54)

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-Thomas Sowell-

b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 691

Re: How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

Kickoff is in the AUR...

If you want it, do this:

1. Fetch, build and install liblazy: http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/svn/branches/k … d-liblazy/
2. Fetch kdemod-kdebase-kickoff from AUR and build it: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15527

My opinion about kickoff: Not worth the hassle/hype (still?), but people have different tastes

EDIT: typos

I quite like kickoff and have wondered where to get liblazy from. Thanks. That was the only missing piece of my arch kde jigsaw puzzle.

vertimyst

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From: Canada

Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 71

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Re: How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

I apologize for reviving an old thread, but I'm trying to build liblazy using this method: http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=592.

However, when I execute ../_buildsystem/makepkg-arch I get this output:

==> Making package: kdemod-liblazy 0.2-2  (Wed May 28 19:01:11 EDT 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading liblazy-0.2.tar.bz2...
--19:01:12--  http://kdemod.ath.cx/source/sources/liblazy-0.2.tar.bz2
           => `liblazy-0.2.tar.bz2'
Resolving kdemod.ath.cx... 87.106.61.112
Connecting to kdemod.ath.cx|87.106.61.112|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
19:01:12 ERROR 404: Not Found.

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading liblazy-0.2.tar.bz2
    Aborting...

Is there a typo, perhaps, in the PKGBUILD file?   Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,

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INCSlayer

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-06

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Re: How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

i think they have removed the liblazy source from their server you have to substitute the source bit with:
source=(http://people.freedesktop.org/~homac/liblazy/liblazy-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
and then everything should work

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vertimyst

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From: Canada

Registered: 2008-05-28

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Re: How to get the "openSuse" KDE look into Arch KDE

Thanks, that worked.

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