ANNOUNCE: xfce-utils

[Jasper Huijsmans]

There are several themes relevant to XFce:
- gtk theme
   Not managed at the moment.

- xfwm theme
   Window border theme. Set in $HOME/.xfwm4rc. Themes are just a
   directory containing named pixmaps. There are many of them included in
   xfwm4.

- xfce4 icon theme
   Predefined icons in xfce4. Again a theme is just a directory
   containing images with predefined names. One theme is built-in and
   at the moment only one extra theme is provided, the Gnome theme.

This brings us to one important part of XFce 4 that is still missing, 
the central control center or style manager. We still need to define a 
common protocol to use for xfce. Gtk settings need to be handled through 
the xsettings protocol as defined on freedesktop.org.

The xfce configuration file is an xml file. The simple way to create on 
is to run the panel and change the settings on the panel. The settings 
are saved on exit.

xfce looks for the file in two places, ~/.xfce4/xfce4rc and if not found 
there ${sysconfdir}/xfce4/xfce4rc. This last file should be installed by 
the package and contain a reasonable default configuration.

The default configuration should ideally be the same or similar to the 
xfce3 default configuration.

Hope this helps a bit.

	Jasper

Mark W. Webb wrote:
> Thank you very much for this.  I have one question though.  How can I
> install a theme in XFCE4?  I do not see anywhere in the settings window to
> do this.
> 
> Also, I am looking into creating a default settings file for new
> installations.  Where would this file go?  And what is its name?
> 
> If there are any small coding jobs to get me up to speed that I could do,
> that would be great.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xfce4-dev-admin at moongroup.com
> [mailto:xfce4-dev-admin at moongroup.com]On Behalf Of Jasper Huijsmans
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:52 AM
> To: xfce4-dev at moongroup.com
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: xfce-utils
> 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> We will do that one day, but it's just not a priority right now. I put
> together a little help page on how to get xfce4 from CVS. You can find
> it here:
> 
> http://members.home.nl/jbhuijsmans/xfce4-cvs.html
> 
> Jasper
> 
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:04:09 -0400
> "Mark W. Webb" <markwebb at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>yes, I would be someone who is new.  You seem to be familiar with the
>>source code directory structure.  would it make sense for you, with
>>input from others I'm sure, to create a nice, clean xfce4 CVS
>>repository instead of mashing it in with xfce-devel?
>>
>>just a thought
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: xfce4-dev-admin at moongroup.com
>>[mailto:xfce4-dev-admin at moongroup.com]On Behalf Of Xavier MAILLARD
>>Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 7:10 PM
>>To: xfce4-dev at moongroup.com
>>Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: xfce-utils
>>
>>
>>Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at moongroup.com> disait récemment que :
>>
>>
>>>Right, here's what I did:
>>>
>>>* created xfce-utils directory in CVS
>>>* moved xfbd, xfmouse and xfrun under this directory
>>>* copied backdrops dir (seemed appropriate here)
>>>* adapted the sources to compile as one package
>>>* removed old xfbd/xfmouse/xfrun subdirs
>>>
>>>I added a small TODO file of what I think should be changed. They do
>>>seem to work.
>>>
>>
>>Could you be more explicit ? I know things are simpler to understand
>>but for someone (newly arrived to the project) who wants to help out
>>would be a little perplex IMHO.
>>
>>
>>>Making the adjustments I mention in the TODO file might also be a
>>>nice small project for people wanting to help with xfce4
>>>development.
>>>
>>>greetings,
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>
>>>	Jasper
>>
>>        zeDek
>>
>>
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