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Cimikwwii, a dark theme using clearlooks http://gnomelook.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/69913-1.jpg14:30
Cimimaybe we could ship this as an alternate dark theme to the light one14:30
_MMA_Cimi: You have to think about disk size and support.14:46
Cimi?14:46
_MMA_Also, how does that theme work with Firefox, OO.o and Gnome-control-center? Theres are issues we have with Ubuntu Studio.14:46
Cimi_MMA_, obviusly a dark theme won't NEVER be ready for a default desktop theme14:47
_MMA_Cimi: Shipping multiple themes adds to the disk size. They are really tight now. And adding another theme will gemerate more theme-related bug-reports.14:47
Cimibut as an alternative14:47
Cimito the guys that code14:48
Cimithan develop most of the day14:48
Cimietc etc14:48
_MMA_Cimi: Once the design direction is settled I think its best to have the people that want to help, work on the main idea/theme that working on alternatives. There's so much work to be done most people dont even realize. :(14:51
CimiI've rewritten the murrine code actually14:52
Cimiit's a lot moe polished and bug-free14:52
Cimi*more14:52
CimiI've an svn repository14:52
_MMA_And while people are putting out cool examples I am pessimistic as to how many will really help. :(14:52
Cimihttp://viewvc.intilinux.com/viewvc.cgi/cimi/murrine/14:52
_MMA_Cimi: Cool. Ill have our guy update.14:53
Cimihttp://viewvc.intilinux.com/viewvc.cgi/cimi/murrine/ChangeLog?revision=19&view=markup14:53
Cimihere's the current changelog between 0.53.114:53
* _MMA_ looks.14:54
andreasnkwwii: ping15:03
_MMA_Hi andreasn.15:10
andreasnhi!15:12
andreasnwhat's up?15:12
_MMA_Not much. Trying not to get sicked into Ubuntu work. ;)15:13
_MMA_*sucked15:13
_MMA_Trying to just enjoy the Saturday.15:14
andreasn:)15:17
rexbronCimi: Ping15:17
Cimirexbron, pong15:21
rexbronCimi: _MMA_ pointed out that the 0.6 changelog has been commited to svn, is there an eta on an official tarball?15:22
rexbronfor murrine15:22
Ciminothing now15:22
Cimibut when I'll make a make distcheck there will be the tarball15:23
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kwwiire16:25
kwwiihi Cimi16:26
kwwiiCimi: what is the name of that dark theme, I would like to try it out16:27
kwwiilooks like I get to read up on the art list tonight16:28
kwwiimissed a lot sleeping all day :p16:28
_MMA_:)16:30
Cimikwwii, did you read my second email?17:13
kwwiiCimi: yeah, just read it...I'll see what I can do - I imagine we can work something out17:50
Cimikwwii, I've in mind the idea of adding a second style for murrine where the user can specify the gradients of every widget17:53
Cimisomething like17:53
Cimitop_highlight_ratio = 1.117:53
Cimicenter_highlight_ratio = 1.017:53
Cimibottom_highlight_ratio = 0.917:54
kwwiiCimi: wow, that sounds like a good idea if done properly...where would the colors come from?17:54
Cimithe colors are gtkrc colors17:54
Cimibg[normall] etc etc17:54
kwwiiright17:54
kwwiiI gotta eat dinner now, but I will be back in a bit17:54
Cimithe ratio is read by cairo to enlight them17:54
Cimiok17:55
kwwiire18:48
Cimiwe18:50
Viper550So, they say there are plans for Gobuntu's artwork, right?22:14
_MMA_Viper550: Kinda slow on the weekends but yes, I think its up for submissions.22:17
Viper550I was told there was already plans...let me check22:18
Viper550_MMA_ http://bay01.imagebay.com/_upload/img/23/gobuntugreenwip.jpg22:22
_MMA_Whats that?22:23
CimiAurora engine is too slow for a desktop proposal22:23
Cimiit is the slowest engine ever written :)22:24
Viper550my idea for a possible look for Gobuntu. We can use ClearLooks too22:24
_MMA_Viper550: kwwii will be the best guy to talk to.22:24
CimiClearlooks has exactly the same look (with better scrollbars) and 200% speed22:24
Viper550yeah, looks smoother22:24
Cimiexactly22:24
Viper550Not Ubuntulooks, personally, I think we should give ClearLooks another try in a Gnome-based Ubuntu22:25
Viper550Though, is Xubuntu using the new gloss mode for Clearlooks?22:26
Cimipersonally, I've spent more time when developing Cleralooks for gnome 2.20 than what I've done for my murrine engine22:26
CimiViper550, it is using murrine22:26
Cimibtw22:26
Viper550Oh, cool22:26
Cimithe glossy I've added to clearlooks22:26
_MMA_We really have to wait until kwwii has his meeting with Mark. We'll know what we can do after that.22:26
Cimiis using similar gradients to the one I've added to murrine22:26
Viper550no wonder it suspicially looked alot like that22:27
Viper550also, I was thinking a different wallpaper obviously.22:27
CimiViper550, I'm the copyright owner of murrine so I can do what I like :D22:28
Viper550I know, and it's GPL22:28
Viper550Have you seen that new Nodoka one?22:32
Cimiyou mean murrine 0.53.1 with a different name?22:32
Viper550really?22:33
Cimiyes22:33
Cimitake the nodoka theme22:34
Cimichange the engine to murrine22:34
Cimiand you'll have a similar theme22:34
Cimi(better looking)22:34
Cimi(without the ugly progressbars)22:34
Cimithe code is 99% the same22:34
Cimiwith a different name22:35
Cimireplace "murrine" "nodoka"22:35
Viper550oh.22:35
Viper550I didn't know that, looks like Murrine but with a bit more of a ClearLooks like style.22:35
_MMA_Viper550: Funny thing is you can do just that in a gtkrc file.22:36
Viper550really....? wow.22:36
_MMA_Yeah. Ill get you the example a guy from Ars showed me at UDS.22:37
lukeenCimi: murrine is based on clearlooks, isn't it?22:37
Viper550murrine is based off candido, which I think was based off clearlooks22:38
lukeenso what is nodoka based on/off?22:38
Viper550nodoka is based off murrine22:38
Viper550http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/MartinSourada he did explain his rationale though22:39
_MMA_Viper550: http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/08/21/how-to-make-a-gtk-theme-that-uses-multiple-theme-engines22:41
CimiViper550, I'm the creator of Candido, Murrine and Clearlooks (since 2.18 but expecially 2.20 as you can see the improvements)22:42
lukeenok, so the author said it IS based on murrine. well i've read much about nodoka but i never read the word murrine. after reading cimis words here i thought the nodoka author did NOT give credit and such...22:42
Viper550Also, I do love that new feature of being able to specify your own colors for GTK themes in the Appearance menu, it's awesome22:43
lukeenCimi: you did a great job for gnome, but this nodoka guy was in the news, why didn't you?22:43
Cimiin which news?22:44
Cimiyou mean gnome 2.20 release notes?22:44
_MMA_Cimi: I think what we "see" are "changes" to Clearlooks. I'm sure there are "improvements" under the hood though. ;)22:44
Cimi_MMA_, what do you mean?22:45
_MMA_Cimi: That personally I dont like the "look" of the newer Clearlooks. I like your work on Murrine better but Im sure "code-wise" Clearlooks has "improved".22:46
lukeenCimi: i've read much about nodoka theme on news sites (i don't remember which, but distrowatch for example) but i saw your name only because of your engines or on the gnome devel sites...22:47
CimiI'm not interested in fame :)22:50
lukeen:) ok thats cool ...  well, for me you are a gnome-style-hero :D because you made it much more beautiful! i just want to say thank you cimi22:50
Cimithanks lukeen  :)22:50
Cimi_MMA_, the look of newer clearlooks is absolutely amazing. I'm no longer using murrine since april22:51
_MMA_"amazing" is an opinion. ;)22:51
Cimibtw from a code point of vew22:51
Cimiof course ;)22:51
Cimiand I guess people generally share my ideas22:52
Cimibut I'm not afraid if someone says that Murrine is better :D22:52
Cimiit's a compliment in both cases22:52
Cimiehehe22:52
_MMA_The big complaint I heard about the new Clearlooks at UDS was the gradient on the tabs. In the default state I guess. I dont know how much they can be tweaked.22:53
lukeenCimi: dont become boastful ;)22:54
lukeenwell my opinion is: clearlooks is really beautiful now, but, i miss something more unique, you know, something people keep in mind. dont you think?22:55
Cimi_MMA_, wait 1 second22:55
Cimihttp://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/11/05/nuove-tabs-per-clearlooks-gummy-non-uccidetemi/22:55
Cimisorry for the italian22:55
Ciminodoka or murrine? :) http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/6870/schermatakc8.png22:57
Viper550looks more like Nodoka22:57
Viper550or maybe you mixed it up22:57
CimiViper550, it is murrine with some options in the gtkrc22:57
Cimiyou can get the same look22:58
Viper550gonna experiment with the 2 engines22:58
CimiViper550, 1 engine22:58
Cimithe engine is the same with a different name22:58
Viper550and different default options?22:58
Cimino22:58
Cimibut for example22:59
Ciminodoka engine22:59
Cimiignores the highlight_ratio22:59
Cimihilight_ratio  = 0.909090909 in murrine22:59
Cimisame look22:59
Viper550oh23:00
Cimiin fact23:00
Cimiit's really hard for me to read23:00
Cimi"So, now I think I know that the differences are too significant to merge with Murrine, we removed a lot of original code and added a lot of ours, the engines went different ways, if we'd try to merge, it would lead to losses in rendering speed."23:01
Cimitoo significant?23:01
Cimi"and added a lot of ours"23:01
Cimiwtf????23:01
_MMA_lol. Cimi. I was gonna ask exactly that. The "hilight_ratio" thing. For Hardy we're going for a flatter look but I wanted to still use Murrine.23:01
Viper550even THAT confuses me. maybe "ours" in his own?23:01
Cimilol23:01
Cimii haven't received NOTHING23:02
CimiNO EMAILS FROM HIM23:02
CimiNO ONE23:02
Ciminothing as23:02
Cimi"thanks for murrine"23:02
Ciminothing23:02
Ciminothing23:02
Ciminothing23:02
_MMA_Well email their list explaining it all and see what they say.23:02
CimiI'm really bad in english...23:03
_MMA_At the very least its yet another package they have to needlessly maintain.23:03
CimiI will probably eplain it with wrong words23:03
Viper550also, where the heck are the distro packages on your site? I can't find them23:03
Cimicausing them to hate or blame me :)23:03
Viper550I use Gutsy23:03
Viper550nm23:04
Cimipackages for what?23:04
Viper550it's in universe! yay!23:04
Viper550murrine23:04
Cimiyes23:04
Cimirexbron package it23:04
_MMA_Yeah. We'll get it updated to .60 soon.23:05
Cimi_MMA_, would you like to help me to write the right words for nodoka guys?23:05
_MMA_Hmm... :) Ok. Write up something and we'll go from there.23:06
Viper550also, do the themes on your site support Gnome's new custom color support?23:06
Cimi;)23:06
CimiViper550, no one23:06
Viper550You know how to use that?23:06
CimiI expect murrine 0.60 to have the colorscheme support23:06
_MMA_You could simple send a email to their list asking why and explain that their changes were unneeded. Showing examples.23:06
CimiViper550, of course23:06
Cimiwe are now working to implement the colorscheme support23:07
_MMA_*simply23:07
Cimilike in kde for example23:07
Cimivarious colorschemes for each theme23:07
Viper550I mean, in the appearance properties on Gnome 2.20, you can specify custom colors without having to hack into the file.23:07
Viper550most of the colors are now "aliases", and can be changed by the user23:08
CimiI perfectly now23:08
CimiI'm writing themes everyday :)23:08
lukeencolor sheme support is absolutely necessary IMHO23:08
Cimihttp://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1431/schemesrp3.png23:09
Cimithis is a screenshot from the guy who is implementing it23:09
lukeenwill this saved shemes be global? or per theme?23:09
Viper550global, you can also have a default color scheme per theme23:10
Cimiper theme23:10
Cimino23:10
Cimiper theme23:10
lukeenvery cool23:10
Cimiit's a choice23:10
Cimiyou can add23:10
Cimicolorscheme.ini23:10
Cimiinto your theme23:10
Cimiand the schemes specified23:10
Viper550oh23:11
Cimiwill be listed into the combobox you can see on the right23:11
_MMA_And Murrine .6 will support this?23:11
Viper550so you're going beyond what Ubuntu has right now...awesome!23:11
Cimi_MMA_, this is a gtk/gnome things23:11
Cimialso murrine/nodoka will support it23:11
_MMA_Cimi: Thats what I asked.23:11
Cimievery engine23:11
Cimiexcept the pixpuf23:11
Cimi*pixbuf23:12
Cimiyou just need a gtkrc with colorscheme support23:12
Viper550and a version of Gnome with that option inside the Appearance settings23:12
* _MMA_ makes a note to add this to his Ubuntu Studio's gtkrc.23:13
_MMA_Viper550: Its already in Ubuntu.23:13
Viper550Gutsy?23:13
Cimino23:13
Cimi_MMA_, in the screenhot23:13
Viper550oh so this is for Hardy?23:13
Cimithere's a combobox23:13
_MMA_NO!23:13
CimiViper550, yes23:13
Viper550Okay...can't wait! Makes sense to launch it on Hardy23:14
_MMA_Viper550: Its in Gutsy now. Not all engines support it.23:14
Cimigutsy has gnome 2.2023:14
_MMA_And?23:14
Cimiit only support colorscheme23:14
Ciminot the one I've just linked to viper23:14
Cimiwith a lot of colorschemes for each theme23:14
Cimidid you see the combobox on the right?23:15
lukeenthis will get into 2.22?23:15
Cimisure23:15
lukeenk23:15
Cimi_MMA_, I'm thinking to add a new style for murrine23:15
Cimiwhich will be much more custimizable23:15
_MMA_Viper550: Are asking for "Global" support or "per theme"?23:16
Cimiif mark will support the development I will take a look into it23:16
Viper550Global support could be nice, and per theme would be good too23:16
Cimi_MMA_, for example23:16
_MMA_Viper550: Global support is there now.23:16
CimiI want to add ability to specify single gradient capability23:17
_MMA_Cimi: Do what you want. Dont base you decision on what Mark wants.23:17
Viper550so there's like a .colors or something?23:17
Cimi_MMA_, I must follow mark's decisions23:17
_MMA_?23:17
_MMA_No you dont.23:17
_MMA_Why? :)23:18
Cimikwwii said this to me23:18
Cimihe said me and him will follow mark's decisions23:18
_MMA_lol. No. Trust me. They might ask yo uto add things but you arent bound by anything.23:18
_MMA_Unless he's paying you for development. :)23:19
Cimiin fact23:19
CimiI will help him if he will pay me :)23:19
Cimihe payed for the human icons23:20
_MMA_Sure, but you arent bound by anything so add the features you want.23:20
_MMA_Viper550: Global support is there: http://mma.users.ubuntustudio.org/Screenshot.png23:20
CimiI think more gradient support for murrine will be amazing23:20
_MMA_Sure. Id like to see it.23:20
Viper550uhh, I mean be able to not have themes specify custom color schemes, but have a "global pool" of presets like on KDE23:21
Cimibut at the same time I can't work for days and weeks for free23:21
Cimijust for him23:21
_MMA_Sure. Thing is since we're syncing the package from Debian now we have to update sooner and the version will be harder to update.23:22
_MMA_If it were a Ubuntu package it would give us more time.23:22
Cimiwhat do you mean with it?23:24
CimiI lost the connection between murrine, money for development, and debian :D23:24
_MMA_"_MMA_: Sure. Thing is since we're syncing the package from Debian now we have to update sooner and the version will be harder to update.23:26
_MMA__MMA_: If it were a Ubuntu package it would give us more time."23:26
Viper550I was trying to make scrollbar color specified with @fg_color but it didn't work23:26
CimiViper550, new murrine version will support it23:26
Viper550oh23:26
Cimibut gtk version must be bumped up to 2.1223:27
Cimiso everyone with gnome 2.18 will be out23:27
Viper550also, I did hack up a "murrine theme" that can use the custom color schemes....sacrificing the scrollbar color support23:27
Viper550I just took ClearLooks and changed it to the Murrine engine23:27
CimiViper550, for scrollbar support specified by bg_selected23:28
Cimijust wait 0.6023:28
Viper550Okay23:28
Cimifor the ability to specify your symbolic color23:28
Cimii.e:23:28
Cimiscrollbar_color = darker (@bg_Selected_color)23:29
* _MMA_ sticks with Murrine because he can define 3 colors for tabs. (though this might have been added to Clearlooks.23:29
CimiI MUST require gtk 2.1223:29
Cimias gtk 2.10 and lower are not supporting symcolic colors in the engine section of the gtkrc23:29
Cimi_MMA_, ?23:30
_MMA_No sorry. Got that wrong. 1 color for the background. 1 for inactive tab and 1 for active.23:31
_MMA_Gives me 3 depths.23:31
Cimisame as clearlooks :\23:32
Cimibtw for a dark theme as ubuntulooks maybe murrine is a good choice23:32
_MMA_New or old?23:32
_MMA_?23:32
Cimibg[normal] is supported by both23:32
Cimibg[selected] by both23:32
_MMA_Bad English. :)23:32
Cimibg[actiev] by both23:32
Cimisorry23:33
Viper550glazestyle 4 is epic.23:33
CimiI'd like to add the ability do change the upper, mid, mid-lower and lower gradient of all widgets23:34
Cimithen to set the position of the highlight23:35
Cimifor example23:35
lukeenand customizable hilight curves hehe ?23:35
CimiI can put on the top of the button the glossy effect23:35
_MMA_Cimi: Like I said "though this might have been added to Clearlooks."23:35
_MMA_"New" Clearlooks does this now it looks. "Old" didnt.23:35
Cimilukeen, this is nearly impossible23:35
Cimi_MMA_, of course, I've added it in april :)23:36
lukeenCimi: much of hard work, but not impossible ;)23:36
Cimilukeen, do you have some experience in cairo drawings?23:36
lukeenno23:36
Cimiso23:36
Cimi;)23:36
CimiI must blame you23:37
Cimiit's not so simple23:37
lukeeni did not mean it really seriously :)23:37
Viper550think you could add an option for the ubuntulooks like scrollbars?23:38
lukeenand i sure belief that it's not simple23:38
CimiViper550, no23:38
Cimiubuntulooks is imho ugly from the first to the last widget23:38
Cimimmm23:39
_MMA_I dont think Ubuntulooks is gonna be used as alot of talk at UDS mentioned using Murrine. But who knows.23:39
Cimicheckbuttons are nice23:39
Cimi_MMA_, kwwii said to me Murrine was chosen23:39
_MMA_"Cimi: ubuntulooks is imho ugly from the first to the last widget" <- An example on language differences. (can be seen as mean words) :)23:40
Cimi_MMA_, could you write an email to the fedora lists? :D23:41
lukeenCimi: what do you think: which engine has cleaner code, which is faster? clearlooks or murrine?23:41
_MMA_Cimi: Sure but Mark can always make Ken change his mind. Thats why I said "But who knows?"23:41
Cimi_MMA_, ok23:41
_MMA_Cimi: Well as I dont know all the details I think you should start the 1st email and I can help revise (better the language) it.23:42
Cimilukeen, clearner code: Clearlooks23:42
Cimifaster (with flat themes) Murrine23:42
Cimirounded themes Clearlooks23:43
Cimibut Murrine 0.60 will have a very polished code23:43
CimiI've spent a day in polishing it23:43
lukeennice to hear murrine developmet is continuing23:43
Cimilukeen, I've a subversion repository23:44
lukeenhehe? ;)23:44
Cimihttp://viewvc.intilinux.com/viewvc.cgi/cimi/murrine/23:44
Viper550how do you make the buttons on Murrine look like the Nonoko ones?23:50
Viper550I mean nodoka23:50
Cimihilight_ratio = 0.90909023:51
Cimiin the murrine options23:51
Viper550on what button style?23:53
Cimi?23:53
Cimieh23:53
Cimiyes23:53
Viper550nm23:53
Cimiglazestyle = 023:53
Viper550glaze style 1 and that .90909023:53
CimiViper550, seen the magic? :D23:55
Viper550awesome.23:55
Cimilol23:55
Viper550we truly need to re bringup Murrine on ubuntu-artwork mailing list23:55
Viper550I'm working on a little mockup with this glossy look and the Human colors23:56
CimiViper550, there are a lot of improvements in stability23:56
Cimiover 0.53.123:56
Cimiin the svn version23:56
Viper550cool23:56
Cimiin fact23:56
_MMA_Viper550: Trust me. Its being looked at.23:56
Cimiboth ubuntulooks aurora and nodoka23:57
Cimihave leaks23:57
Viper550I'm going to try modding the only original part of nodoka23:57
Cimiand some malloc problems23:57
Viper550the metacity23:57
Cimiwhich imho is really poor =)23:57
_MMA_Viper550: But I would wait till kwwii has the final word on the direction for making too many mock-ups.23:57
Cimiexaclty23:57
Viper550I'm just preparing for that moment23:57
Cimiactually it's just a waste of time23:57
CimiI will expect a lot of forks from murrine 0.60 :D23:58
_MMA_At UDS we were all sure (including kwwii) that the theme was gonna be orange and black. Now brown is staying in there to some degree.23:58
Viper550orange and black.....that would have been uber...or better for Ubuntu Studio23:59
_MMA_Well kwwii made jokes he was gonna steal it. ;)23:59
Viper550yeah, maybe add it to the repos when Halloween comes around XD23:59
_MMA_But everyone is free to do whatever.23:59

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