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This is a titlebar-less decoration, inspired by Google Chrome, and
Nitrogen minimal mod
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/KDE+4+Nitrogen+minimal+mod?content=109355).

Instead of the traditional full-width titlebar, a mini-titlebar is
placed at the upper-right corner of the application window --- where
usually is unused by the application menu bar.

Because notebooks today have very wide screens but limited in height,
I think this saving in the vertical space can be good.


Build
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Please following instructions in the INSTALL file.


Usage
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Just use the small bar in the top-right corner as your good old titlebar.

Ctrl-MouseWheel grows/shrinks the bar. So if your window title is
really long, you can make the bar wider.


Theme
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Begin with v0.1, Chromi uses themes from Aurorae Theme Engine
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Aurorae+Theme+Engine?content=107158).
You can download dozens of Aurorae themes in the configuration UI.

Chromi ships with Scnd101's "Chrome Aurorae" theme
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Chrome+Aurorae?content=119106)
as the default. If you customized the theme SVG files in older
versions, please move SVG files from /usr/share/kde4/apps/chromi to
/usr/share/kde4/aurorae/themes/chrome. Chromi no longer load theme
files from the former directory.


Config File
===========
You can change various settings in the [Engine] section in ~/.kde/share/config/chromirc:
    
DefaultTitlebarWidth=250
  The default width of the mini-titlebar.

MinimalWindowWidth=500
  Window narrower than this will use full titlebar. Set it to -1 to disable this checking.


Known Problems
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* Full-width titlebar has no hovering effect.

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Chrome-inspired window decoration for the KDE KWin window manager.

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