The Widget Factory 0.2
Were you heavily dissapointed by the lack of on-the-fly theme switching? Couldn’t stand the fact that the progressbars didn’t animate when dragging those sliders? Or simply despised the lack of tab widgets on all four sides?
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:
August 25th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
Great!!! I like clearlooks very much!!! great job and thank u
did you see this link??? http://diva.mdk.org.pl/2005/08/25/just-make-it-look-pro-and-important
August 26th, 2005 at 3:21 am
wow,
i’m very keen on finding out what clearlooks theme modification that is.
its doing great justice to your app. …mmmm clearlooks
August 26th, 2005 at 3:23 am
oh ignore that. I just read your other posts lol
August 26th, 2005 at 5:53 am
As you can see here [1] I’m one of the persons helping with GIMPing heads for all the subscribers to Planet GNOME. I’d love to help making a hackergotchi for you. Just drop me a mail with a photo attached to it or point me to some online gallery where I can grab it. Cheers, Antonio.
[1] http://planet.gnome.org/heads/
August 26th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Oh! BTW where can I get that metacity theme too?
August 26th, 2005 at 8:47 am
Hi,
very cool theme. But what font is used in the screenshot?
August 26th, 2005 at 1:36 pm
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/).
August 27th, 2005 at 9:27 am
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 ?
August 27th, 2005 at 9:32 am
Never mind… found it in clearlooks CVS
August 30th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
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!
August 30th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
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.
August 30th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Looking great Richard! Keep it up!
August 31st, 2005 at 1:10 am
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!
September 12th, 2005 at 9:30 am
So when do you update your blog and give us a status update ?
December 23rd, 2005 at 10:51 pm
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.
July 23rd, 2006 at 8:23 am
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