Xfwm 4 screen captures

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On 07 May 2002 20:40:04 -0400
Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 15:20, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> > > 	As long as there is a CDE/Motif/Motif+ theme I'm happy.  There's
> > > 	nothing bad about having as many different looks as possible.
> > 
> > Frankly, Joe, I'm shocked ;-) You're really supposed to say no here,
> > or rather NOOOOOOOOOOO! 
> 
> 	Must have had a mental infarction or something.  Sorry.  ;-)
>  

Apology accepted :-))

> > So, in case you won't object, I will.
> >  
> > Until now the similarity to CDE has been one of the defining
> > features of the project. I would be hesitant to throw that away too
> > easily (mind you I don't even know CDE myself). 
> 
> 	What I meant to say above was that I don't mind if there are
> 	multiple"looks" using themes or whatever as long as it keeps the
> 	CDE look'n'feel.  I am fairly confident that Olivier will keep
> 	at least one configuration setting that will look and feel like
> 	CDE.  FWLIW, I actually have the real CDE for Linux so I can
> 	always fall back to it if something unthinkable should happen.
>  

Once you make it look (and behave?) like CDE it will be fairly difficult
to make it look like anything else. Besides changing colors and icons
there is not much you could customize I think.

> > Especially if the requested features of OS X are the transparancy,
> > the dropshadows and the dock animations it does not fit very well
> > with the goal of the project to be leightweight. 
> > I'm affraid the system load will already increase a lot because of
> > the use of GTK2. Keeping the themeing system as simple as possible
> > should be a priority. 
> 
> 	I was thinking that OS X would be like the screen shot that
> 	Olivier posted as "aqua".
>  

I'm using that now myself. The other styles are a bit too blue at the
moment. Matbe I should write a real .gtkrc-2.0 file instead of
symlinking to the gtk1 one.

> > For people wanting to work with OS X-like systems wouldn't
> > windowmaker or even a much customized GNOME be a more suitable
> > choice?
> 
> 	I don't know.  That's a good question.  Not that I'm interested
> 	in finding out, really.  I have an iMac with OS X on it.
>  
> > Anyway, these are just my opinions at the moment. I'm willing to be
> > convinced of other viewpoints ;-)
> > 
> > BTW, I'm trying to port the panel to GTK2 at the moment and I would
> > like to here any specific ideas about improvements to the panel or
> > missing feature that you can't live without or, even better,
> > existing features that you can't live with.
> 
> 	FWIW, if you want to see what the "real" CDE looks like for a
> comparison I can get you a copy if they are still selling it.  If not
> I would be happy to send you my copy for your testing.
> 

Right now I'm using the user and administrator manuals I found on
internet from Digital I think. They explain fairly well how everything
is suposed to work. Thanks for the offer, though.

Jasper

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