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About Lightly (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some of you might know about the lightly qt theme

https://github.com/Luwx/Lightly

https://github.com/boehs/Lightly

And if you know about it, you know support for it in recent times has been questionable. That's what I want to change, but I need someone to help me. I have experinence in similiar stuff, like I have my custom userstyle for firefox (https://github.com/Bali10050/FirefoxCSS), I have a custom animated cursor, custom plasma themes, custom aurorae themes, a custom kvantum theme, custom color themes, and I even made a custom theme for gtk2 when it was a thing(that one is not on the internet, the others can be found at https://www.pling.com/u/bali10050). I have some experience in programming, but it's python, and this project is not, and I also done nearly 0 graphical stuff in that. But, I heard that qt supports css like stylesheets (https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/stylesheet-reference.html) and I can also do some very basic things in c++ and rust. Can somebody help me revive this project, or help me find where to start?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Afaik the "original" Lightly was born as a fork of Breeze, which in turn was born a fork of KDE4's Oxygen. So all of them are written in pure C++.

Now, I heard Luwx/Lightly was stalled so they forked it in boehs/Lightly, merged some pending patches and even did a new branch to port it to Qt6 - but last time I tried to compile it, it failed. Not sure if they're still working on it, though. (From my part never liked Breeze but found about Brise, which I found much more torerable).

If I were you I'd try to get in touch with the mantainers of boehs/Lightly. If that doesn't work, I'd go to ask the KDE VDG (I guess they should be reachable at discuss.kde.org); at least they should redirect you to someone versed in Qt C++ styling - which is very complicated, at least for me, 'cause C++ is no easy thing and it seems there's almost no documentation at all about the subject. Pinheiro himself struggled to find someone with enough knowledge of C++ to help him with his O^2 theme.

If that doesn't work either for whatever reason, which I doubt ever happens, I'd try asking Carl Schwan as a last resort, the guy that came up with Brise. He helped me with a stupid patch for it - of course he knows his thing and seems to be very cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the response, I'll try those. The part that I'm stuck with is the lack of the documentation, and the size of the project. If any of these work, it can be a fun little(very big) project, and an interesting learning experience, and might be a great thing for the community overall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do you install brise? Is it available in the KDE store? Somewhere in the AUR. The readme only show to build it with kdrc and I have no idea how to do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're using Arch and it's in the AUR, I'd look into that. Otherwise you'd need to compile it by yourself.

If you don't feel like compiling stuff, you'd want to file a bug against your distro so there's someone willing to step up as a package mantainer to prepare a package for it and make it available for your distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not in the AUR unfortunately, and I'm ok with compiling it myself, but I have no idea how since there are 0 instructions on their gitlab. There could be instructions there, but gitlab confuses the shit out of me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Download it, cd to its directory, and do the standard procedure to compile a Cmake project:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo/doas make install

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That worked. Thanks. I don't see much difference really. Also, I now have 2 breeze themes. Lol