Welcome to the humble Skulpture-five (and six!) repository...

What is it all about

This is a re-worked and partially updated code of the original Skulpture style that was once developed by Christoph Feck. Specifically, this repo is a continuation of the skulpture-five (a Qt5/KF5 port) branch from 2016.

What is available

As of now, the following features are present:

an updated code base with fewer warnings during compilation
Qt5 support
Qt6 support

Dropped features

Compared to the original Skulpture style for KDE4, this version lacks the following features:

obviously no Kwin decorator part

Known issues

Right now you can experience weird indents and paddings in menus, lists etc.

Compilation and first steps

You'll need at least Qt 5.15.2 or 6.2.0. Use Cmake to build this repo:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

By default, this will build the Qt5 version. If you want the Qt6 version, use the following command:

cmake -DUSE_QT6=ON ..

The style is available for use once there is the skulpture.so file in the Qt Plugins directory in the styles subdirectory. Eg., it is /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/styles/ for Qt5 version and /usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/styles/skulpture.so for Qt6 in my system, though your setup may have different paths.

If you're running Plasma5, you'll be then able to find Skulpture under pedestrian Style settings in KDE's systemsettings5. For Qt6 apps you'll probably need to use Qt6ct. Don't forget to cast export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct to make it work.

Motivation

First of all I should give my regards to Michael Abaev, a promising C++ coder who made the Qt6 port of Skulpture happen. As I'm not a programmer myself, my part was to inspire and convince him to do the job, then to make the work public and provide some documentation.

The purpose of this repo is to provide a working Qt6 port of Skulpture. Even though it's not a pixel-perfect copy of its namesake for KDE4, it already provides great consistency between Qt5 and Qt6 apps. As the time goes by, more and more apps are getting ported to Qt6 (qBittorrent, Strawberry etc), so that we need one style to fit 'em all. Think of Skulpture as an alternative to Kvantum, which seems to be the only third-party style supporting both Qt5 and Qt6. Your contribution and improvement in the Skulpture style will be strongly welcomed and appreciated!