[ubuntu-art] New Wave : buttons

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2008/5/25 François Degrave <fdegrave at gmail.com>:

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> 2008/5/25 Anton Kerezov <ankere at gmail.com>:
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>> В 18:43 +0200 на 25.05.2008 (нд), Giuseppe Pennisi написа:
>> > Il giorno dom, 25/05/2008 alle 18.32 +0200, François Degrave ha scritto:
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>> > > 2008/5/25 Giuseppe Pennisi <giupenni78 at gmail.com>:
>> > >         François Degrave ha scritto:
>> > >         > Hi!
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>> > >         > I worked quite a lot on this! The lifts are not totally
>> > >         finished yet.
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>> > >         Good Work. And Very Nice....but...
>> > >         ...allow the engine it?
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>> > > I don't know, but if that actually exists:
>> > > http://www.silvestre.com.ar/wp-content/uploaded/dark-tech.png
>> > > then it must be possible...
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>> > It's just a mockup. I don't know if we can find an engine that can make
>> > this. Unfortunately.
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>> > Giuseppe P.
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>> It is possible to make this with the pixmap engine. Here are the
>> results:
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>> http://img164.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=36311_Buttons_122_688lo.jpg
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>> Unfortunately there are some weak points of this not being part of the
>> engine:
>>        1. I cannot set the default button image (the one that is pressed
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>> Enter)
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>>        2. If we change the buttons we have to change the radiobuttons and
>> checks as well. See in firefox.
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> Ok, I can make some. Could you make the font white on the pressed buton
> instead of bold?
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> I guess Giuseppe is right about the pixmap engine and that's really a pity.
> If we cannot make an interface look exactly like an initial mockup, and if
> we always have to give up such or such thing, it becomes basically
> impossible to make something that looks really new in Gnome.
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Please don't be demotivated by this.  It is actually not that hard to tweak
existing theme engines (the hard thing is to write them, there are many many
devils in the details). As I've stated a few times already having a clear
list of simple items we would like fixed will make it much more likely that
someone with the skills and motivation will write a patch suited for
upstream (possibly me, but no promises ;-P).

The stuff that is much harder to change is the subtle user interaction
things. Like being able to drag windows by mouse-dragging on unused parts of
the menubars. See fx http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500437 which
is relevant for New Wave.

Cheers,
Mikkel
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