Alright, after some disappointment with Openbox and a brief stint with Mabox, I’m back, this time having made the decision to adapt (best I can) to KDE Plasma. However, as much as I tried, I can’t stand the KDE panel at the bottom of my screen.
So the question is simple: can I get rid of said panel, and add Tint2 to KDE?
I guess you haven’t tried very hard then, because judging by the screenshots of what tint2 looks like, you can make the Plasma panel look exactly the same.
Yes, of course.
In theory, yes, but tint2 is a gtk widget and Plasma is qt-based, so I don’t know how well that would work. You’d probably have to create a .desktop file for it and add it to the “Autostart” section.
Really?
I mean, after reading your post yesterday, I took a closer look, but I couldn’t get it quite as I had on tint2. I’d love to keep it if I can.
This is what I had before in Fedora:
Ok, “I can’t embed media items” Is there a way for me to show you what I have and want?
Now, these are my problems with it:
It takes the whole screen width, and doesn’t allow anything to be put in there. I need the real estate for conky.
I don’t need to see the launcher when I’m working. I can have a second panel on the side for that.
I don’t need the date. I have the calendar in conky. I also, for the same reasons, don’t need the time. I just need the placeholder.
It interrupts the wallpaper, and, to be honest, it looks butt ugly and it’s (at least for me) quite difficult to see. I have tried using the opacity option, but it doesn’t seem to work.
You can resize the panel’s width, and even have it flexible, so that it expands when more items are added to the task manager. You can also adjust the panel’s thickness.
Here’s a screenshot of my desktop, and note that both the panel at the top and the one at the bottom are stock Plasma panels ─ there’s no Latte dock or anything like that.
The clock is only a removable widget, and you can choose different types of clocks, with or without the date showing. You can even customize the format of the time and date.
Try choosing a different Plasma theme ─ note: this is not the same thing as an application theme or a global theme. The Plasma theme I use is called Opal, and it is fully transparent ─ you need to have the translucency and blur effects on.
I’m not sure anymore how I did it, but I seem to remember that it was one of the settings in the plasma5-applets-window-buttons widget ─ it’s in the repositories, as well as that it’s also available from the AUR.
Okk, now I’m starting to get pissed off. I opened an imgur account, and followed ishaambhimwal’s instructions, AND NOW IT TELLS ME I CAN’T POST LINKS!!!
What the hell can I post?