Features like these make me really happy, because it means that someone actually thought this through. So I answered the question (only 2 answers are valid), and couldn’t help but smile at what I saw.

No one will ever guess which answer I picked!

Two short blog posts in one whole year, that’s just pathetic… Turns out I’m a clogger. I’ll try to make better use of my blog this year though

But don’t hold your breath just yet…

Especially CJK email… Puhlease…

Thank you!

Yours truly.

I’m not celebrating it in any fancy way, except for eating some cake with my parents & brothers and perhaps some relatives if they choose to show up

It goes really well with the upcoming cairo version of Clearlooks.

Get the cool stuff here:

	clearlooks-metacity-2.0.tar.gz
	clearlooks-xfwm4-2.0.tar.gz

To install it, unpack it to /usr/share/themes and overwrite the old metacity theme (the metacity-1 directory). I got problems when I placed it in ~/.themes but your mileage may vary

Update: Added the Xfwm4 theme.

Here are the results at the time of writing this:

The result to me was quite unexpected! The old Clearlooks had RTL (opposite direction) animation, yet only 1 or 2 people every complained about that! But then again, animation was always disabled by default, so not many people ever noticed that.

I guess it’s clear what the mainstream preference is now. You can still vote, but I doubt it’s gonna make a difference. I’ll probably make it a an option in gtkrc eventually, so that themers can decide in which direction it should animate.

Thank you all for voting and commenting!

But that’s not what I came here for. I’d like everyone’s opinion on the direction the progressbar should animate. Below are three progressbars. Two of them animate in a different direction, one of them doesn’t animate at all. Please let me know which one you like most by clicking on one of them.

Vote left to right

Vote right to left!

Vote no animation!

Unfortunately, you can only vote once per IP address. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Oh, and feel free to tell me why you prefer one over the other, by adding a comment below.

Thanks!

• 1. Finish the basic version, without custimization options.
• 2. Add the customization options.
• 3. Polishing it, and then polishing it some more.

Right now, I’ve almost reached the first milestone. What’s missing is the focus rings. It will be easy to add that, though.

If you would like to try the new Clearlooks, you’ll have to get it from GNOME CVS, module “gtk-engines”. Please keep in mind that it’s still a bit on the slow side, especially with cairo-1.0.0. The CVS version of cairo has seen a few great speed improvements, though.

Here’s the latest WIP screenshot (click for full):

Don’t worry about the scrollbars, the old style is still there if you don’t like the new one.

Well I’ve got news for you! The Widget Factory 0.2 does all that!

So, without further adieu, I present: the download link!

Oh, and a little screenshot too:

Since porting the original Clearlooks to KDE is a very time consuming process, I decided to design the cairo version in such a way that makes it as independent from GTK+ as possible. The result is that, when Qt support cairo (if ever), porting Clearlooks to Qt/KDE will be pretty straightforward.

In the process of disconnecting the drawing code from GTK+, I learned that I have been displaying disabled toggled toggle buttons wrong all the time. So even if the button is toggled, I’d still display it as if it wasn’t. Clearlooks-cairo displays it properly though.
Behold:

I’m also surprised at the cleanness of the drawing code. I can imagine that anyone that has worked with cairo a bit will be able to pick it up immediately. But even if you have no experience with the cairo API, it will still be pretty easy to understand. And that’s worth something, in my opinion