[ubuntu-art] New Wave (Engine)

[Anton Kerezov]

В 21:30 +0200 на 12.05.2008 (пн), Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen написа:
> 2008/5/8 Anton Kerezov <ankere at gmail.com>:
>         В 20:48 +0200 на 06.05.2008 (вт), Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
>         написа:
>         > Start by checking out Murrine from Gnome svn:
>         >
>         >   svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/murrine/trunk murrine
>         >
>         > Use an svn checkout to make it easier to create
>         diffs/patches ('svn
>         > diff > mypatch.patch'). To set up a development environment
>         use:
>         >
>         >
>         >   sudo apt-get install libcairo2-doc libgtk2.0-doc devhelp
>         anjuta
>         >   sudo apt-get build-dep gtk2-engines-murrine
>         >
>         > Now you should be able to build murrine from source - Run
>         >
>         >   ./autogen.sh (only needed the first time)
>         >   make
>         >   (don't do 'make install')
>         >
>         > Now
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MikkelKamstrupErlandsen/ThemeEngineTricks
>         > will tell you how to create a symlink in your home dir to
>         have the
>         > system pick the compiled engine up (you should not have
>         murrine
>         > installed).
>         >
>         > Anjuta is a nice code editor and devhelp is a documentation
>         viewer.
>         >
>         > Get hacking :-) Cheers,
>         > Mikkel
>         
>         Hi Mikkel,
>         Right now make builds all the themes but I want it to only
>         build clearlooks. Can you help me with the
>         makefile I need to build CL? Anybody else, Who ? (I attach the
>         necessary files)
>         
>         I'm thinking of adding new style to CL like GUMMY or GLOSSY
>         that will be
>         called NEWWAVE or smth. And I planned to make a separate
>         clearloocs_draw_newwave.xxx file to do the new style. What do
>         you think?
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, but I was on vacation.
> 
> If you only hack inside Clearlooks then 'make' should only rebuild the
> clearlooks engine, with fairly little overhead from checking if other
> files have changed.
> 
> Anyways; I think it is important that you 'write your engine' as a
> patch for upstream Gnome. This also means that you should not rip it
> out of the source tree. It is generally frowned upon to just fork
> engines (like Fedora forked Murrine to create Nodoko) and it is also a
> great maintenance burden. If you can get it included as a patch
> upstream you are pretty much safe, and will benefit from later
> developments (including security fixes!) of the Clearlooks engine.
> 
> The tricky part is getting it into upstream. To maximize your chances
> consider the following:
> 
>  * Make sure to touch as little as possible of the existing code
>  * Follow the code style and terminology of the existing code base
>  * Make the code easily understandable (fx good variable names, and
> comment the non-obvious sections)
> 
> 
> Make sure you have a clean current svn snapshot by running 'svn up'
> and resolving any conflicts (likely none if you've kept your changes
> non-intrusive). Then run 'svn diff > new_wave_style.patch' and attach
> it to a bug report on Gnome's bugzilla (bugzilla.gnome.org product:
> gnome-themes and component: theme-clearlooks) shortly describing why
> we need it (maybe link to mockups/screenshots).
> 
> At your service,
> Mikkel

Thanks for the advice. The thing is that clearlooks comes with a dozen
other engines that I do not need to compile every time.

Anton