Installation

Build and install

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
make install

CMake configure arguments

1. ENABLE_QT4:

   Building QtCurve Qt4 theme.

   (Default: On)

2. ENABLE_QT5:

   Building QtCurve Qt5 theme.

   (Default: On)

3. ENABLE_GTK2:

   Building QtCurve Gtk2 theme. Require QTC_ENABLE_X11.

   (Default: On)

4. QTC_ENABLE_X11:

   Enable X11 support. Require xcb, xlib-xcb, xcb-image. Will cause all shared libraries to link to libxcb, and libqtcurve-utils.so will also link to libX11-xcb and libX11.

   (Default: On)

5. QTC_INSTALL_PO:

   Install *.po translation files.

   (Default: On)

6. QTC_QT4_ENABLE_KDE:

   Compile QtCurve qt4 style with KDE support and dependencies.

   (Default: On)

7. QTC_QT4_ENABLE_KWIN:

   Compile QtCurve qt4 kwin style. This will only have effect when KDE support is turned on. Also require QTC_ENABLE_X11.

   (Default: On if kwin header is found and KDE support is on, Off otherwise)

8. QTC_KDE4_PREFIX:

   The install prefix of KDE4.

   (Default: the value returned by kde4-config or ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} if kde4-config is not found.)

9. QTC_KDE4_ICONS_PREFIX:

   The path of KDE4 icons.

   (Default: ${QTC_KDE4_PREFIX}/share/icons)

Deprecated and temporary options.

These compile options were used to turn on/off some experimental features or work around for certain hardware/software/drivers. It is not guaranteed that any of the non-default value of these options can work and some of these options may crash certain applications. They may also be removed at any time (especially the ones to work around old hardware or driver bugs) and are not recommanded to turn on in distribution packages.

1. QTC_QT4_OLD_NVIDIA_ARROW_FIX:

   Due to QtCurve mixing AA-drawing, with non-AA drawing (specifically for arrows) - sometimes the arrows would not draw correctly under NVidia. To work-around this, QtCurve filled the arrows using AA-ed drawing, and used non-AA drawing for the edges. As of 0.69.0 this code is no longer enabled by default - use this config option to re-enable the code.

   (Default: Off)

2. QTC_QT4_STYLE_SUPPORT:

   Support QtCurve style files. These are stored as <kde prefix>/share/apps/kstyle/themes/qtc_<stylename>.themerc Note that this is not supported in Qt5.

   (Default: Off)

3. QTC_QT4_ENABLE_PARENTLESS_DIALOG_FIX_SUPPORT:

   Enable support for the 'fixParentlessDialogs' config option. NOTE: This is known to break some applications - hence is disabled by default!

   (Default: Off)

4. QTC_GTK2_MODIFY_MOZILLA:

   1. Modify userChrome.css

      1. setting KDE button order
      2. shrink size of toolbars

   2. Edit user.js

      1. disable instant apply

   Note: This sometimes causes issues with newer versions of these applications. Should such issues occur, you should recompile QtCurve without this option - and you will have to remove BY HAND the changes that QtCurve has made. This will entail removing lines from userChrom.css that indicate 'Added by QtCurve'. userChrome.css is usually in a folder such as: ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxx.default/chrome/userChrome.css or ~/.thunderbird/xxxxxxx.default/chrome/userChrome.css Where xxxxxxx is a series of random characters.

   (Default: Off)

5. QTC_GTK2_USE_CAIRO_FOR_ARROWS:

   Use Cairo, and not Gdk, to draw the non-antialised arrows. It has been reported that for intel Xorg drivers >2.8, that drawing these non-antialised arrows with cairo results in nothing being drawn! As of 0.69.0, the default is to use Gdk.

   (Default: Off)

6. QTC_GTK2_ENABLE_PARENTLESS_DIALOG_FIX_SUPPORT:

   Enable support for the 'fixParentlessDialogs' config option.

   NOTE: This is known to break some applications.

   (Default: Off)

Backward compatible options

These options are provided to have better backward compatibility with the configure options before the merging of repositories. They WILL be removed in a few major releases.

1. QTC_QT_ONLY:

   The opposite of QTC_QT4_ENABLE_KDE.

2. QTC_OLD_NVIDIA_ARROW_FIX:

   Alias of QTC_QT4_OLD_NVIDIA_ARROW_FIX.

3. QTC_STYLE_SUPPORT:

   Alias of QTC_QT4_STYLE_SUPPORT.

4. QTC_ENABLE_PARENTLESS_DIALOG_FIX_SUPPORT:

   Alias of QTC_QT4_ENABLE_PARENTLESS_DIALOG_FIX_SUPPORT.

5. QTC_MODIFY_MOZILLA:

   Alias of QTC_GTK2_MODIFY_MOZILLA.

6. QTC_USE_CAIRO_FOR_ARROWS:

   Alias of QTC_GTK2_USE_CAIRO_FOR_ARROWS.

Tips for compiling with clang/clang++

As of clang version 3.3, clang++ does not seem to be compatible with the c++ standard library headers shipped with gcc in c++0x mode. If you have problems compiling the Qt4/Qt5 themes with clang++, one possible solution is to use libc++ instead of libstdc++. The following command should configure CMake to use clang/clang++ and libc++ correctly,

CC=clang CXX=clang++ CPP=clang++ CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -stdlib=libc++" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -lc++abi" cmake .. <other compile options...>

Creating Distribution Packages

Support for creating deb or rpm package have been removed. Please make package in the same way as any other cmake packages.

Additional Features

XBar/MacMenu

The XBar support was copied directly from Bespin. The relevant files are named macmenu.*. These were taken from revision 652.

Deprecated in favor of appmenu since KWin has builtin support for that after 4.10 and appmenu-qt does not depend on a certain theme.

Themes

As of v0.55, you can create QtCurve based themes. These will appear with KDE's style control panel's combobox of styles. To create a new theme, select 'QtCurve' from within KDE's style panel, then configure QtCurve as required. After this, in QtCurve's config dialog, select 'Export theme' from the options menu button. You will then be prompted to give your new 'theme' a name, and a comment. QtCurve will then create a file named qtc_<name>.themerc (e.g. qtc_klearlooks.themerc) - this will have the following format:

[Misc]
Name=Klearlooks
Comment=Clearlooks inspired style
[KDE]
WidgetStyle=qtc_klearlooks
[Settings]
animatedProgress=false
appearance=gradient
....rest of qtcurve settings...

To use this theme, either copy qtc_<name>.themerc to $KDEHOME/share/apps/kstyle/themes/ (usually ~/.kde/share/apps/kstyle/themes/) or copy to <kde install prefix>/share/apps/kstyle/themes/ (usually /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/)

When KDE's style panel is restarted, your new theme should appear in the list.

NOTE: As of QtCurve 1.0.0 style support has been disabled by default (enable via QTC_QT4_STYLE_SUPPORT) and this is not supported by Qt5.

Testing

As of v1.2.1, QtCurve can be forced to read its settings from an alternate config file via the QTCURVE_CONFIG_FILE environment variable. This is only really useful for testing alternate config settings without changing the users current settings.

Usage:

QTCURVE_CONFIG_FILE=~/testfile kcalc