A short outside history of Xfce

[samuel verstraete]

Stephan do you plan on releasing the theme? i would appreciate the
adjusted xfce-stellar theme and the icon-theme...
and of course we are in full expectancy of the desktop switcher release ;)

gr,S.

On 5/6/06, Stefan Stuhr <xfceuserslist at sstuhr.dk> wrote:
> ons, 03 05 2006 kl. 18:17 +0200, skrev Stefan Stuhr:
> > I have never tried CDE myself. But I do really like and use especially
> > one CDE feature which isn't supported by GNOME and KDE, and which I was
> > introduced to with Xfce 4.0: The launcher "arrow" sub menus.
> >
> > I have just tried to see how close I could get to make my Xfce
> > installation look like CDE, based on Solaris screenshots[1].
> > The result:
> > http://www.sstuhr.dk/screenshot1.png
> >
> >       * The window manager theme is "Mofit".
> >       * The GTK2 theme is Xfce-stellar.
> >       * The backdrop is xfce-stellar-tile.png, which is included with
> >         Xfdesktop.
> >       * The icon theme, Tango, isn't CDE-ish at all, but it should be
> >         possible to find and/or make a CDE-ish icon theme.
> >       * The only non-Xfce part of the screenshot, beside the Tango icons
> >         and some of the minimized applications, is the panel pager,
> >         which is the GNOME panel pager applet running in Xfapplet.
> >
> > [1]:
> > http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=278&slide=39
> >      - especially http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/278_or/64.png
>
> I have just tried again:
> http://www.sstuhr.dk/screenshot7.png
>
> I believe that I did it a lot better this time:
>       * The icons are way more CDE'ish than Tango. Most of them are from
>         the Xfce 4.0 "XFce" panel icon theme, a few are from Xfce3, and
>         some of them are from the Rodent icon theme.
>       * The panel draws the handles, thank to some customisations to the
>         "Xfce-stellar" theme.
>       * The panel has a workspace switcher (as opposed to the pager),
>         and it works! I am currently developing it in PyXfce. I won't
>         promise anything, I am not always good at actually finishing and
>         releasing things. But it does currently support nice things like
>         switch-on-drag, switch-on-scroll, and custom theme styling (as
>         demonstrated on the screenshot). It also has a properties
>         dialog, with number of rows, border and spacing, and minimum
>         button width.
>
> Stefan
>
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