KDE menubar problems

Hey everyone. New to the community.

I'm running PCLinuxOS 2007 (KDE 3.5 I believe), and have no 3D acceleration (read: can't use Compiz-Fusion, Emerald, etc.). I've managed to get pretty far without them, however. Just a few problems need to be ironed out and I should have near-perfect Tiger emulation.

Here are my problems (pointed out in red on the image).

1. Baghira's menubar extension puts the program's name on KDE's menubar in addition to the menu itself. However, it's awkwardly positioned... a good three or four pixels above the level of the other text.

2. The icons on the system tray are apparently too big and cut off at the bottom.

3. The panel itself has no shadow. Sometimes, kind of randomly, when I reload KBFX for example, it gets a shadow, but it's never constant.

ALSO I've been hard-pressed to find a good Tiger iconset for KDE. I've found Leopard sets for both GNOME and KDE, and I'm using the woefully inadequate KDE version until I find one. I spent two hours trying to make my own but I was really stabbing in the dark blindly; it didn't compile.

Can anyone help me out, or point me in the right direction?

Here's the rest of the screenshot, without the red arrows.

Briefly, window decorations and style is Baghira. Dock is ksmoothdock (in the PCLOS repository). Album art widget is Amarok Vinyl via SuperKaramba. I made the panel background and buttons myself. Spotlight is the Baghira menu, the Apple is KBFX with the OpenSuSE Leopard skin.

Any questions, I'd be glad to help.

Crossposted to OSX-E forums.

#484411

I can't remember how I fixed the menubar problem, but I think it had something to do with the size of the menubar. Try looking here: http://baghira.sourceforge.net/OS_Clone-en.php

For more Mac looking icons look here: http://www.kde-look.org/usermanager/search...action=contents

L8tr,

HaMMeR=GoM=iPwn

#484484

These icons are exactly what I was needing. Thanks a lot! Did you make these?

AFAIK the size of the menubar is entirely dependent on the size of the Menu font in kcontrol. I tried everything from 9 pt to 12 pt but on each the program title was still a few pixels higher than it should be. :/

EDIT Okay, the problem was the font after all. I changed it from Lucida Grande to Lucida Sans and there are no problems. That just leaves the shadow and icon sizing.

#484663

For shadows and eye candy try compiz-fusion or beryl.

L8tr,

HaMMeR=GoM=iPwN

#484731

Shadows ? Try to enable composite in your X server then go in window option (right click on titlebar) there enable composite support and shadows, restart kde to see the changes (that should work without 3D accel )

#485319

i am also having the same problem,but it was little bit different .i couldn't position the menubar items in an correct way........(i.e items were mispositioned ) ....

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