Submitting an XFWM4 theme

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Mon Jul 7 22:05:55 CEST 2003


Mark,

I'll include mine in xfwm4-themes package. 

That shouldn't stop you from submitting your version to either
http://www.themedepot.org or http://themes.freshmeat.net (or even both) 

[Submission of xfwm4 themes on popular websites is highly encouraged]

Thanks
Cheers,
Olivier.
 
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 03:46, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> For what it's worth, while I like the theme-color-shifting 
> property of your version, I still prefer the gradient in mine.
> 
> For readme stuff:
> 
> Derived from the Kleanux metacity theme available at:
> http://themes.freshmeat.net/redir/kleanux/40551/url_tgz/kleanux-default-1.3.tar.gz
> The original Kleanux metacity theme is by Marcus Petzoldt
> <m.petzoldt at gmx.de>.
> 
> Kleanux was modified and for XFCE by Mark C. Chu-Carroll
> <markcc at bestweb.net>.
> 
> 
> 
> The original metacity theme was distributed GPL, so the GPL license
> file should be included with the theme.
> 
> 	-Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 18:18, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > Actually this one (new attachment) is more readable...
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:13, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > Mark,
> > > 
> > > I tweaked your theme and fix quite a few stuff. Here come my version. I
> > > think I prefer my version for inclusion in xfwm4-themes.
> > > 
> > > Also, could you provide me with a README file, giving original file name
> > > and author (if any)?
> > > 
> > > TIA,
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Olivier.
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 21:01, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 03:46, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 05, Jul 2003, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hey Mark,
> > > > > 
> > > > > > I spent a few hours this weekend goofing around with gimp, and
> > > > > > put together a theme based an the kleenux theme for metacity. I'd
> > > > > > like to make it available to other folks, but I don't have any public
> > > > > > ftp space where I can put it. But since it tgzs to about 5k, and
> > > > > > a screenshot of a small window is around 200K,  I'm
> > > > > > just sending it to the list... 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here's a screenshot for everybody interested in how it looks like:
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://www.home.unix-ag.org/bmeurer/tmp/xfwm4-kleanux.png
> > > > > 
> > > > > > If it looks OK, can the appropriate
> > > > > > person drop it into the xfwm4 themes in extras?
> > > > > 
> > > > > There are a few oddities: For example with focused windows, see the
> > > > > "Window Manager" window on the screenshot. And the top-right border of
> > > > > non-focused windows is weird, see the first terminal window and the
> > > > > gnomeicu in the screenshot. Once you fixed it, I can import the theme
> > > > > into xfwm4-themes (atleast if no one else complains).
> > > > 
> > > > Here's a cleaned up version - I fixed up several visual glitches in
> > > > addition to the ones you pointed out. (There was a problem in the
> > > > bottom border of inactive windows, a single-pixel transparency
> > > > glitch on the bottom right corner of active windows, and some
> > > > border line unevenness.
> > > > 
> > > > 	-Mark
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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