Custom widgets for lxde applications

[Michael Rawson]

Uhh...you mean lxpanel?

I've wanted to try out cairo drawing for a while, give us a list of 
stuff that needs doing!

On 24/08/12 19:24, Stephen Smally wrote:
> The goal of liblxui wouldn't be the usage of custom widgets in lxde 
> application, but rather the unified desktop experience (Just think 
> about the pathbar, it can be easily reused by pcmanfm).
>
> Il 24/08/2012 20:17, Michael Rawson ha scritto:
>> I'm not a massive fan of the idea...if someone wants a custom widget for
>> app X, there's nothing stopping them making their own or just
>> duplicating someone else's. Personally I'm not convinced this is the way
>> forward. But the mockups look good, and as usual, I'm along for the 
>> ride.
>>
>> Ugh, Vala. :P
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>> On 24/08/12 18:37, Stephen Smally wrote:
>>> Hi everybody, some time ago 神癒礁湖 (Rafaellaguna) sent me a mockup
>>> of the future light-software-center, and he told me that he and Alex
>>> (another lubuntu designer) were working on standard widgets for
>>> lubuntu applications ("Even Alex is working on the standards, we
>>> should make a common interface for everything, like the compact menus,
>>> as a standard for any Lubuntu app."). The mockup is the following
>>> http://imagebin.org/225735 (as you can see, it contains a brand new
>>> About Dialog, a pathbar and a compact menu).
>>>
>>> So my question (and proposal) is: Is a standard lxde widgets library a
>>> good thing?
>>> I personally don't like when a gtk app require another library for
>>> widgets (such as libxfce4ui), because it looks to me like an added
>>> weight. However, i started appreciating this with the granite library
>>> (used for elementary os widgets), and i started thinking about a lxde
>>> library seriously (i called it liblxui, but i don't like the name a 
>>> lot).
>>> In my plan, the library should be:
>>> * Written with Vala (simple development + C and vala api) and Gtk3
>>> * Themed within Box (or whatever) via css, using another Gtk theme the
>>> widgets won't look strange.
>>> * Lightweight, of course, just few widgets (about 5 or 6), no Services
>>> or patches as in granite
>>>
>>> I included the lxde list, even if this is thinked primarily for
>>> Lubuntu, id obviously strongly lxde-related.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Stephen Smally
>>>
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