Elementary Luna - Aurorae

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Description:
This is a port of the Elementary Luna window decoration to Aurorae, for KDE users. It even includes the huge drop shadows!

All artistic credit goes to Dan Rabbit and the Elementary team.
Last changelog:

v2.0

- Sharper borders with both light and dark backgrounds

v1.5

- Easier resizing
- Minor touch ups

v1.4

- Squared bottom border

v1.3

- Perfected shadows and fixed a few small glitches

v1.2

- Added minimize button

v1.1

- Nicer shdaows
- Cleaned up margins and maximized borders


Ratings & Comments

24 Comments

Isar

Thank you for this theme. I've got a problem with window borders, they are black and it seems there is no bottom border. http://postimg.org/image/62a2ecd8j/full/

garthecho

Are you using desktop effects? Unfortunately, you have to have them enabled to see the borders and shadows correctly.

Isar

Thanks, as you said enabling desktop effects solved the problem :D

garthecho

No problem.

molecule-eye

Unusable with hard-coded colors.

garthecho

Forgive me, but what's a hard coded color?

garthecho

Do you mean the decoration or the text? Aurorae doesn't allow for the application of color schemes. It's all hard-coded.

Heart

Really great theme, thanks!!! But please have a look at my screenshot http://i.imagebanana.com/img/r7l87zzn/Auswahl_048.png! I don't see the shadow (is it because I don't use desktop effects?!) And how can I place the close button to the left for example?

garthecho

Yes, the shadow will depend on desktop effects being enabled. For the buttons, just click on 'Configure Buttons' and you can drag them around from the dialog.

msx

Have you checked this? (Aka when we will see this changes here!) http://elementaryos.org/journal/elementary-gtk-theme-33-released

garthecho

They're doing an awesome job! I really, really wish that qtcurve and aurorae were flexible enough to mirror these changes, but sadly it just can't happen with the way it is now. You'd have to be able to use pixmaps and make detailed changes to margins, amongst other things. I'll keep my eye on these changes and implement them as I'm allowed.

msx

They're doing an awesome job! I really, really wish that qtcurve and aurorae were flexible enough to mirror these changes, but sadly it just can't happen with the way it is now. You'd have to be able to use pixmaps and make detailed changes to margins, amongst other things. I'll keep my eye on these changes and implement them as I'm allowed. Do you know if those features are contemplated in the roadmap for qtcurve and aurorae? I can file two separate request to add the needed features.

garthecho

You can try a feature request. Give me a link if you do and I'll back it.

msx

*these :P

msx

Hi! I's very difficult to find the right pixels to resize windows, can you check that? Also an option to alter the drop shadows would be nice, I while I like some shadow bordering the windows I would like to make it a bit tiny. Cheers, -Martin

garthecho

We're stuck with the current version for now. :) I will do an update if they add the much needed support for a window resize handle, but for now my only choice is to make the window borders bigger, which kills the beauty of the theme to me. Support for configurable shadows is broken in Aurorae, too.

garthecho

In other words: it's "form over function", for now. ;)

msx

Agree!

migue

very nice, thanks, and what is the theme/style?

garthecho

Thanks. The theme is just a qtcurve that I modified to look like the Elementary gtk theme.

Wompatti

Hi. Can you release the theme you mentioned? I would like to try if it looks better than the other QtCurve elementary-style themes.

garthecho

Sure, here's a link to it. http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Elementary+Luna+-+QtCurve?content=155885

mcder

nice job :D

garthecho

Thank you.

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Aurorae

Aurorae is used by Kwin to provide customized Window Decorations for KDE Plasma.
Read more about Aurorae Window Decorations here:

https://techbase.kde.org/User:Mgraesslin/Aurorae