[new] crystal (kde window decoration)

This is the crystal window deco, pretty cool!
Uploaded to incoming as crystal-0.9.0-1.src.tar.gz
The file is a "local file"
source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2")
You can get it from the following site:
url="http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13969"
Then just rename the file to crystal-0.9.0.tar.bz2
OR
You could just download my package from incoming, prebuilt.
PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Joshua Rubin <[email protected]>
pkgname=crystal
pkgver=0.9.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="This is the Crystal KDE Windowdecoration Theme."
url="http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13969"
license="none"
depends=('kdebase' 'x-server')
source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2")
md5sums=('052aeb7e0c665e4a2b75cf697315241f')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install

Thanks!!!
new PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Joshua Rubin <[email protected]>
pkgname=kde-crystal-theme
pkgver=0.9.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="This is the Crystal KDE Windowdecoration Theme."
url="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13969"
license="none"
replaces=(crystal)
depends=('kdebase' 'x-server')
source=(http://kde-look.org/content/files/13969-crystal-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('052aeb7e0c665e4a2b75cf697315241f')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/crystal-$pkgver
./configure
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install

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Thanks!!!
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pkgname=kde-crystal-theme
pkgver=0.9.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="This is the Crystal KDE Windowdecoration Theme."
url="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13969"
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md5sums=('052aeb7e0c665e4a2b75cf697315241f')
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