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DanaGRandom: http://www.driverheaven.net/insideati/index.htm05:27
Cimikwwii, ping18:15
kwwiiCimi: pong19:16
kwwiiCimi: I'm cooking my son dinner but will be checking irc every now and then19:17
Cimithe murrine code is quite complete, I mean it could not be so complicated to get something similar to your mockups with transparency. The problem is that Gtk+ requires a patch to globally set a RGBA colormap, to enable transparency (and with transparency rounded menus and so on).19:33
Cimiactually a guy is working on this, but I don't think we could get a patch for gtk before its freeze (one month).19:33
CimiI'm searching for a coder, maybe you know someone who can help us for the intrepid look19:34
kwwiiCimi: wow, cool....with intrepid we can play a lot more with the code and probably include more last minute ideas...if we don't get rgba in in time, I guess there is little we can do about that20:14
kwwiiCimi: have you talked to macslow about the rgba stuff?20:14
Cimijust a bit20:14
kwwiiI imagine he might be able to help (or perhaps njpatel)20:14
Cimihe seems to be busy with gdm20:15
kwwiiyeah, I can imagine20:15
kwwiiand niel is busy doing mobile stuff20:15
kwwiimaybe I should talk to seb and vincent and see what they think20:15
Cimiif we can't propose the patches in time (july) we won't have something for intrepid20:15
Cimiactually the problem is with the gtkstatusicons20:16
Cimibecause the current freedektop specification doesn't consider the possibility to use a RGBA colormap20:16
Cimiand gtk, which is following this patch, will fail trough a Xorg Badmatch20:17
kwwiiouch20:17
Cimiso we should need to fix this, then few minor things20:17
Cimiif someone like njpatel or mirco could work on this20:17
kwwiiI think we need to contract someone to take care of this stuff but it is really hard for me to convince mark without showing him something first20:18
CimiI think there no reason to doubt that we will reach to patch gtk in time20:18
CimiIt's not something that require a contract20:18
Cimiimho20:18
kwwiiwell, if it were up to me I would throw money at you to code all the crack I can think up :p20:19
kwwiilol20:19
Cimishould not be difficult to do20:19
Cimilol20:19
kwwiiI'll send mirco, niel and yourself an email opening up this discussion, maybe one of them can find some time20:19
CimiI can't for sure20:20
Cimineil and mirco are already payed20:21
Cimiso they can work on it, isn't it?20:21
kwwiiyeah, the main problem is that they are both working on projects which mark wants to see in intrepid so I am not sure how much time they will have20:21
kwwiiI might be able to talk niel into it even though he is not on the desktop team20:22
kwwiihe might do it in his spare time20:22
kwwiiI am putting a dark murrine theme together now and will put it in intrepid in a day or two20:23
kwwiiso maybe I can show that to mark, even as a mockup of it using transparency and convince him20:23
Cimikwwii, start using murrine from svn for your tests20:24
CimiI will make a development release in the middle of august20:24
kwwiiCimi: which svn is it in?20:24
kwwiiand is there any instructions on building it or is it straight forward?20:24
kwwiihrm, google doesn't seem to be much help in finding the svn20:25
Cimisvn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/murrine/trunk murrine && cd murrine && ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr && sudo make install20:25
Cimiit will overwrite your murrine installation, uninstall the ubuntu deb20:26
kwwiicool, thanks for the help20:27
Cimikwwii, gnome-system-monitor should be transparent20:29
Cimibtw use of transparency highly depends on the blur effect of compiz20:30
Cimiwithout it, transparency is unusable20:30
Cimithere are a lot of new things in murrine which you might like20:31
Cimione is custom gradients for buttons and other widgets20:31
Cimigradients ={ 1,0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 } will define a flat theme for example20:31
kwwiiis there any info on tweaking the new stuff?20:32
Ciminot actually20:33
Cimiand maybe I will change few names...20:33
Cimibtw the code explains better20:33
kwwiihehe, use the code luke :-)20:34
giusefhi all20:50
giusefkwwii: I was working on that RGBA patch for GTK+ that Cimi told you before20:51
giusefwe had a bad issue with GtkStatusIcon, which seems won't work with RGBA colormaps20:52
giusefthe main problem is that20:52
giusefforcing GtkStatusIcon with a RGBA colormap just to try, we had a small, not embedded, window with the tray icon inside20:53
kwwiigiusef: hrm, not that much of a hacker really20:56
kwwiigiusef: if you want to be part of the conversation around this at ubuntu, send me an email20:56
Cimikwwii, at the moment he is the guy that knows better than everyone else the issues20:58
kwwiigiusef: do you have any idea of what we would need to do to get it working right?21:06
giusefkwwii: not really, atm21:11
kwwiigiusef: hrm, so how could I help you to get this stuff done (other than learn C)?21:18
kwwii:-)21:18
giuseflol21:18
Cimikwwii, maybe helping him contacting other devs21:19
kwwiigiusef, Cimi: right, I think that we should start off by having a discussion between anyone and everyone who has an idea of what needs to be done21:21
kwwiigiusef: my email is kwwii at ubuntu dot com, can you send me an email so I have your address?21:21
giusefsure21:21
kwwiicool, thanks21:22
andreasnCimi: was this issue brought up on gtk-devel list?21:36
Cimidon't think so21:37
Cimiyou should ask giusef21:37
giusefkwwii: sent21:37
andreasngiusef: did you send any e-mail about this to gtk-devel-list?21:37
giusefno, I was thinking about that21:38
andreasnI think it would be a good idea, someone should probably be able to give you hints on how to get around your problems21:39
giusefyeah21:40
giusefI go to write21:40
andreasnrockn!21:41
DanaGOh yeah, speaking of rgba: the wallpaper settings (through Nautilus) should allow RGBA.22:31
DanaGThat'd let people use semitransparent backgrounds, or wholly transparent backgrounds.22:31
giusefwhy a trasparent background?22:37
DanaGIt'd let me do things like having a transparent window into my compiz cube.22:38
DanaGOr have a cool only-halfway-there side to the cube.22:38
Cimioh ugly and useless22:38
DanaGNo, it'd also let people use the different-wallpaper-per-side plugin.22:39
DanaGThat'd just need a 100% transparent wallpaper.22:39
DanaGer, color.22:39
DanaGIt's only ugly if you use ugly images for it,22:39
DanaG.22:39
darkmatterthe cube is useless for anything other than a 'wow' effect. imho the default view should be a 2x2 arrangement on a plane, not only does it offer more functionality, but it makes more sense22:49
Cimimmm22:50
CimiI'm for the 1x422:50
darkmatterwell, either way. all the desktops should be viewable on switch22:51
darkmatterthe reason I prefer 2x2 is less mouse travel22:51
DanaGI like cube, myself.23:05
DanaGPlus, it's amusing having fish inside it.23:05
Cimi-.-23:05
Cimimaybe we have a different ideas about what is a desktop23:06
DanaGYeah, I know I'm a bit silly sometimes.23:06

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