Oxygen Font, The New KDE Desktop Font Family, Available For Testing

After Ubuntu and GNOME, KDE will get its own font too: Oxygen.

Oxygen font family is already available for testing (currently in alpha!) and comes with regular, bold and monospace variants, however, only the basic character shapes are done for now and the font is currently using the basic 'auto spacing' from FontForge.

Oxygen Font is released under the Open Font License (OFL) and is designed to be used as a desktop/gui font. According to a recent blog post by NewTypography, "because of the way Oxygen has been constructed closely with the Freetype's gridfitting and also autohinted with Werner Lemberg's 'ttfautohint' the font's appearance does not vary as much under different screen render settings".

For more info on Oxygen font family and to follow its development, check out http://code.newtypography.co.uk/

Oxygen Font is available for download @ projects.kde.org. You can get it using the following command (install GIT firstly):

git clone http://anongit.kde.org/oxygen-fonts

via desdelinux.net

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Oxygen Appmenu - Replace The Menu With A Titlebar Button (KDE)

Oxygen Appmenu is an Oxygen style for Kwin that displays the application menu as a button in the titlebar and works with Qt and GTK applications as well as Firefox or Thunderbird:

The menu comes with different styles: 'menu' (first screenshot in the post), an icon or the application name:

Install Oxygen Appmenu

Important: according to its KDE-Look page, Oxygen Appmenu "works, but has some 'no compositing' issues".

Update: the PPA below now requires KDE 4.8, to install it, see: KDE 4.8 Released, Install It In Kubuntu 11.10

Oxygen Appmenu needs Appmenu-Qt and Qt patched to work with Appmenu-Qt. These are already available in the Ubuntu repositories, so to install it in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, you can use a PPA (the same PPA used in the Icon Tasks post):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install kwin-style-oxygen-appmenu appmenu-qt

Arch Linux users can install Oxygen Appmenu via AUR.

For other Linux distributions, get the Oxygen Appmenu source via KDE-Look.

Once installed, open System Settings and under Workspace Appearance > Window Decorations, select "Oxygen Appmenu", then log out and log back in.

Here, you can also choose between different menu styles, configure its background color and so on, by clicking "Configure decoration":

Thanks to Georgi Karavasilev for the tip!

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