[ubuntu-art] gtk theme
Andrea Cimitan
cimi86 at alice.it
Thu Mar 6 14:50:24 GMT 2008
Il giorno gio, 06/03/2008 alle 15.19 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen ha
scritto:
> On 05/03/2008, Andrea Cimitan <cimi86 at alice.it> wrote:
>
> Il giorno mer, 05/03/2008 alle 13.52 +0100, Sebastian
> Billaudelle ha
> scritto:
>
> > Hi folks!
> >
> > Because my modem-driver is broken (never play around with
> > startup-scripts;-)) I wasn't able to read the mails.
> > I'll do it later, because I'm sitting in an internet cafe
> and I'm a
> > little bit short in time.
> >
> > I'm sorry for my bad and short post. I'll post more later!
> >
> > I've looked into the xl_cheese-/clearlooks-engine and
> changed some
> > points.
> > I could go on like this fixing the points written before.
> >
> > At first, there was the problem that windows without a
> toolbar looked
> > ugly, because the color of the menubar was not the same as
> the windows
> > bg-color.
> > That's changed now: The menubar is colored like the
> background of the
> > window and the gradient of the toolbar is changed a little
> bit to fit
> > to that change...
> >
> > The first point is the "unity of the menubaritem and the
> menu itself".
> > I looked into the code of the eXperience-engine and hacked a
> little
> > bit in clearlooks.
> > That should work now to, even if the menu is placed higher
> than the
> > menubar (Then the menubaritem-widget is turned "upside
> down").
> > Compiz/Emerald is still a problem...
>
> I'm the Clearlooks developer (yes Murrine too :P ), my friend
> Benzea is
> the Maintainer of Clearlooks, and he is the author of the
> eXperience
> engine :D
> So we will implement (he is the right guy to do this) this
> feature the
> day we get a sane way to do it, without the hackish way in
> eXperience.
> Another *huge* problem is that menuitems don't get shadows, so
> the whole
> menu will always look ugly, except an highly decentered shadow
> like in
> your sceenshot.
> (I'm using centered shadows, with 0 x-y offset, like a lot of
> huys... so
> this feature without shadow on menuitems will cause just
> glitches)
>
> >
> > Here's a little screenshot:
> >
> http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bildschirmfoto1su9.png
> > Later I'll upload the engine, but I've to clean up the code
> before
> > (This was my first contact to C;-)).
>
> NO, please NO yet another engine. I was totally against the
> decision of
> xlcheese to publish his patch as another engine and I will
> against a
> similar idea.
> Many years ago was created a tool, called DIFF, do publish
> your patches
> in a clean and simple way.
> Just attach your patch for Clearlooks, Murrine or whatever.
> In a future, if the patch is sane and we agree (in the meaning
> it's not
> hackish and it will work with compiz/shadows), that thing
> could be part
> of Gnome.
> It's so useless to publish a fork with more than 95% of the
> same code.
> Yes, NODOKA (aka murrine with a different name and fixed
> hilight_ratio
> and other options) is an useless engine. And I will be
> laughing when
> I'll publish the next release which is faster, better looking,
> alpha-capable, with a *100 times better* structured code :)
> Just to
> notice its capabilities, Murrine's SVN in just 10 lines of
> code can
> emulate Nodoka engine, with the benefits of a faster but also
> more
> secure/stable code :) (just add style = NODOKA in your gtkrc)
> eheh
>
> While I agree 10000% percent that forking theme engines is a very bad
> idea, given that Murrine was only recently put under public version
> control you have more or less spurred this trend your self... That
> should all change now that Murrine is in Gnome svn. So no excuses for
> forking :-)
>
Murrine was public since September, but I moved a lot of Subversions
servers including intilinux.org, launchpad and now (finally) gnome.
Murrine-RGBA was in launchpad two days after my post in December and in
the last month I moved to gnome's svn since I hate launchpad :).
>
> Cheers,
> Mikkel
>
>
--
Andrea "Cimi" Cimitan - <cimi86 at alice.it>
Website: http://www.cimitan.com
Murrine Author: http://www.cimitan.com/murrine
GNOME Developer: http://www.gnome.org
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