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Amibug

Rob Cosgrove
Hi, I am amibug and I create Wallpaper Other, Various Stuff, Ice-WM Themes and more.

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Amarok

Audioplayers by amarok 574 comments

This program locks my whole system dead and forces me to hard reset when I load it. Probably the first program that has done this for years.

I dont meant to be having a go at it. Amarok looks very powerful and promising program, but just a word of caution for others who might wanna play with it. - Oct 22 2004
kio-locate

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by arminstraub 178 comments

This is an excellent addition to KDE. Thank you.

I was wondering if there was a way to make the search case insensitive? - Oct 22 2004
IDEA: split view toolbar, sync/diff

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Amibug 9 comments

I just personally believe that integrated modular frontends like konqueror are the most efficient form of the gui, and while another app like krusader may well do these things, it sort of defeats the purpose as I dont want to load it just for this. With konq's tabs and split views one single window can accomplish more than any other app on my desktop. - Aug 15 2004
Desktop Icon Grouping

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Justace 17 comments

I agree this has alot of potential.

I think that also it would be nice if you could say click and hold down home, and have its contents pop up on the desktop in a group, or maybe pop up down the screen in a tree form (the functionality should be limited to something closer to a menu than a file manager) - Apr 25 2004
Plasma soup green

Wallpaper Other by Amibug 3 comments

Scribble, twist with iwarp, set translucency down, repeat with another layer, do some blurred soft focus layers, overlay em using different methods such as screen, divide & soft light aswell. Thats basically the process. - Apr 25 2004
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

Short of buying it, you can actually download it from the alias wavefront website so long as you have a login account for the support section. Then all you need to do is 'sort' out the license. - Apr 24 2004
Plasma soup 1280

Wallpaper Other by Amibug 3 comments

Hi, I would be glad to upload the .xcf but its 16meg as a .xcf.bz2!

I could probably make it smaller
but I'll make it available if anyone is able to host it for me. - Apr 23 2004
New Icon Set

Icon Sub-Sets by SeanParsons 24 comments

I can see the slick influence :) .. nice job. - Oct 16 2003
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

yea I know where your comming from.

I had some improvments in another theme I was using on my system, and some other modified cystal icons, and I just sorta threw it all in slick before I released it not realising ide done some damange (like removing the konq icon with the spider), and putting crystal folders in was something I overlooked. Anywho I suppose I better fix it up some time :) - Jul 03 2003
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

I better do some work on them if anyones considering putting them in 3.2 :)

Thanks for drawing those other icons to my attention, I didnt know they existed. - Jun 10 2003
KWin drop shadow patches

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 58 comments

Even if you get your KDE from packages you can still use this patch with minimal compiling. Just download the kdebase file corresponding to your KDE, configure --prefix=/usr it (or wherever KDE is on your distro), cd kwin, patch and make/make install it only. - Jun 10 2003
KWin drop shadow patches

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 58 comments

Same here. All shadows are inverted. That is 0 transparency is max and max is 0. This problem didnt exist in 0.5 which is the last one I used.

Nice to see the patching errors are fixed. Now I can use the gui :) - Apr 15 2003
Rotate Image Service menu

Dolphin Service Menus by wjarosz 5 comments

Nice KDE extension. its good to see all these projects popping up on kde-look.

Could you please tell me what kstyle and font your using in that shot?` - Apr 09 2003
mandrakeGalaxy Theme

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by bouveyron 29 comments

What exactly is the SRPM called?
galaxy-0.2-18mdk.src.rpm appears to be GTK2 only and I cant find anything else. - Apr 09 2003
mandrakeGalaxy Theme

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by bouveyron 29 comments

Oops Ignore that one. Its a GTK2 version!
I unpacked it after posting :\

Oh well its there for those who want it aswell :) - Apr 08 2003
mandrakeGalaxy Theme

KDE 3.0-3.4 Themes by bouveyron 29 comments

This will be no use unless you have Alien. I dont know if its part of slackware or not, but this sure is useful for Debian users.

ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu/pub/mandrake/current/SRPMS/galaxy-0.2-18mdk.src.rpm

I searched all over and couldnt find plain gz/bz source anywhere. You may want to try a different mirror from the list at
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#mirrors - Apr 08 2003
Quartz kwin modification

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by freakone 2 comments

err I cant tell the difference between this and the orig :)

In the mood to hack this theme a bit more? Add some gradients (either hoz or vertical or both) then it would be very spiff :) - Dec 13 2002
Alien Night

Wallpaper Other by Amibug 13 comments

Wtf are you talking about?
Firstly, It is part of many KDE using distros as I was contacted by the KDE team and asked if it could be added.

If you still think its unoriginal then perhaps I can show you elements of the ~50mb .xcf original of this image. aswell as a dozen other incarnations that came before the final.

So before you start rubbishing someone for "taking credit for artwork" just because you saw it somewhere else, why dont you check if my name was on it there before you start spreading bullshit. Get a clue - Dec 10 2002
bugs desktop

KDE Plasma Screenshots by Amibug 8 comments

Thanks for the comments. I'll upload the kicker background and color scheme shortly.

Nice desktop yourself :) Couuld ya tell me what kwin theme your using there? - Dec 08 2002
NGreen

Ice-WM Themes by Amibug 4 comments

in the default.theme file

change
TitleBarCentered=1
to
TitleBarCentered=0

- Jul 31 2002
the future of X

Various Stuff by jvoorhis 39 comments

Its all too easy to propose a plan and get support for it. But who is actually going to write it? I havent heard a single post on this thread of someone actually offering to contribute directly to this 'project'.

The X developers, especially Keith Packard know what you all want. KDE developers know what you want. And steps have been taken (Xrender) to create this. However 'eye candy' as much as I like it, is superficial, trivial and imho should be low priority considering some of the far more important work that needs to be done.

I think that you shouldnt try and annoy the developers with a lobby/petition. It would just put more pressure on them and they do such an awesome job now. Also both projects already have bug/wishlists as long as the bible.

Whatever the final solution is, I think Gnome and KDE should work together on this common need. Its important to avoid duplication of work/effort, which im sure will be considerable, and far more than some of you think. - Jul 03 2002
Desktop Icons 0.5.0

Icon Sub-Sets by dave 64 comments

Can you tell me where I can get that font your using for the icons in screenshot 2?

Very nice icons :) - May 24 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

I have the same problem! :\

Its a KDE 3 problem. 2 isnt effected (not with kicker anyway). I also compile from source, but I cant see what we could be doing wrong.

So far I can offer a very half assed solution, which is to run the slick install script (in the slick directory) as, 'install.sh overwrite'

NOTE: this WILL OVERWRITE most of the default hicolor theme, its not a very nice solution at all. but it fixes kicker and a number of other apps which wont theme (partially kate, kcm applets run from outside kcontrol, konqueror when embedding sometimes.)

Have fun - Apr 08 2002
Silva | KDE is the prettiest OS!!!

KDE Plasma Screenshots by joelsonoda 8 comments

Can you tell me where I can get that nice background your using? I love such backgrounds, they really do have a relaxing effect :)

Cheers - Mar 27 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

Oh now I see bzip2 isnt kcontrol installable. back to gzip then. - Mar 21 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

Ah well I messed it up nicely :)

Yes it is a bzip2 file with .gz

It was supposed to be a .gz file but in my tiredness last night I must have slipped with the switches. In future it will be bzip2 as it does knock 100k off the file size. - Mar 21 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

When you download Slick, hold down the shift key when you click on the link. This should pop up a requester giving you the option to save the file where you want and with the correct name. - Feb 18 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

1. Find a folder.. any folder will do..
2. Click the right mouse button on the folder.
3. Select "Edit FileType" from the menu
4. In the dialog that pops up, Click on the button with the folder icon in it.
5. Select "Filesystems" from the combo box on the right in the choose icon dialog.

here you will find the various 'folder' options - Feb 18 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

The window style is called "VisualPrefs - Green"

It is available on this site under Windows Decorations > IceWM

if you want the titlebar centered like in the screenshot then uncomment "TitleBarCentered=1", In the default.theme file. - Feb 18 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

The Icons installation screen is a bit dodgey. You arnt the first person it has tripped up.

To install...
1. Open the icon prefs by clicking on:
"KDE Go icon" > Preferences > Look&feel > icons

2. Click on the little folder that is directly to the left of the "Install new theme" button.
3. Select Slick_1.1.tar.gz from the file selector & press Ok.
4. Then! Click the "Install new theme" button.
5. Choose Slick from the list of icon themes.

The other thing is you shouldnt be using KDE as root.
You could easily move or delete an important system folder while browsing around, rendering your system unuseable.

Shady WWW sites also have the potential to do massive damage to your system.. Instead of just being able to murder your personal files, they could potentially murder your whole system!, and any others you might have installed.

For normal day to day linux use you should create a 'normal' user account.. This should have been done during installation. If not your redhat book will surely tell you how to do it. - Feb 18 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

Hi, first thanks for your support :)
I liked the drawers aswell, I think they are a much better metaphor. However, I just couldnt make a decent 16x16 drawer, they looked terrible.

The other reason is it wasnt very easy to place images on top of them, (for the content themed drawers), there just wasnt enough room to work with.

The drawers (and the original folders aswell) are still included in the theme though, Theres alot of choice for the 'folder' in this theme.
By selecting "Edit Filetype" from the context menu you can choose from about 4 different 'folder' styles. :) - Feb 16 2002
XP-2.2.x-Theme

KDE 2 Themes by stephanelassalvy 70 comments

Its always funny when some win luver is dribbling on about how cool XP looks, and ya put on the XP theme and he shuts his gob.. Its bring them one step closer to KDE/Linux - Feb 11 2002
starting kde...

KDE 3.x Splash Screens by mattjones 15 comments

I just love the way people think they can give orders to the authors of themes on this site. These people usually never actually contributed anything themselves.

Theres definantly two types of people. The do'ers, and wingers that like to tell others what to do. - Feb 09 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

Well your obviously 10 years old, that explains everything. As I said, take it somewhere else, im not going to have an abuse slinging match with you.

p.s Your pretty graphically illiterate. This isnt modelled off XP. its complete shit and I havent ever used it, or seen more than a glimpse of it. - Jan 18 2002
Slick Icons 1.5 pre2

Icon Sub-Sets by Amibug 168 comments

Get the fuck off this board you small minded idiot.

An icon set is an icon set, use it or not, but dont winge like a little girl because you like another one better, iKons is great, this is a theme site, none of this stuff has to conform to anything, and i'll call it what I fucking like, got that?

Man why the fuck would you do anything for anyone with assholes like you around.

and btw "Stupid strict fascist style" is pretty damn stupid, remember what your talking about here.. Icons.
Sort your issues out somewhere else - Jan 18 2002
Alien Night

Wallpaper Other by Amibug 13 comments

yes only the GIMP.

The lights are the easy part and didnt take that long at all. I did them by making a big yellow sqaure for one building face, and then cut it into a grid using the straight line/erase tool. This is done on its own layer, so then the color can be altered using mainly the gradient tool, then to make them glow, a rough yellow 50% translucency blob with the air brush over every square.
- Jan 17 2002
Alien Night

Wallpaper Other by Amibug 13 comments

Doh! hehe I totally missed it. - Nov 15 2001