Comments on: The Widget Factory 0.2

by: Craig

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:23:38 +0000

Hm, dunno why, but I debianized it for AMD64 and it segfaults:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0×00002aaaac8acfa0 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6

by: Scott

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:51:27 +0000

Is this source code, an install package or both? I was hoping it was source as I’d like to build an Debian (Ubuntu) package from it.

by: Kenneth Christiansen

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:30:38 +0000

So when do you update your blog and give us a status update ?

by: Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:10:29 +0000

Thanks a million Richard! I’ve already been poking around… Seems like it’s a little like writing a Gnome-VFS module, just different

Cheers!

by: bvc

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:34:55 +0000

Looking great Richard! Keep it up!

by: Richard Stellingwerff

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:31:52 +0000

How did I get started… Well, after having used Bluecurve for quite some time, it started to grow old on me. So after creating some mockups, I downloaded the Bluecurve source code and started looking at the code. Now I don’t completely remember what I changed first, or how I knew what to look for, but I probably just searched for some keywords (like “button”) and studied the code.

Luckily, the code is not that difficult to understand. I suggest that you look at the source code of Clearlooks cairo, to get an idea.
The latest code is at http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk-engines/engines/clearlooks/src/ .

First look at clearlooks_style.c. This is where GTK+ tells the engine to draw things. clearlooks_draw.c performs the actual drawing.

As for documentation. I recommend that you install ‘devhelp’ (http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Devhelp). It allows you to browse trough the GTK+ documentation, which is very useful.

If you need help, then there’s always #gnome-art and #theme-hackers on GIMPnet.

by: Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:01:09 +0000

Where do I find documentation on gtk theme engines? - Been poking around but haven’t been able to find any

How did you get started in the first place Richard?

Great work btw!

by: ghaefb

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:32:52 +0000

Never mind… found it in clearlooks CVS

by: ghaefb

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:27:18 +0000

Thanks for the neat app, it’s very usefull.

When will clearlooks-cairo theme be ready ?
Can we download a preview/cvs version or something ?

by: Richard Stellingwerff

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:36:42 +0000

Atonio Ognio:
Sorry, I’m not using Metacity but XFWM
The theme I use is something I quickly hacked up after getting “legal threats” from the Opus author for using an XFWM theme that was modelled after Opus. I didn’t release this XFWM theme to the public and I’m currently not planning to port it to Metacity.

John:
It’s Trebuchet MS, part of MS Core Fonts (http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/).