New look for the dialog headers

Stephan Arts psybsd at gmail.com
Tue May 2 23:16:48 CEST 2006


On 5/2/06, Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 May 2006 22:13:20 +0200, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>
> > I'd like to propose a new look for the headers used throughout the
> > various dialogs in Xfce, because I think the current way has some
> > drawbacks:
> >
> > a) it requires a few tricks to change the colors from the hardcoded
> > styled ones, because the header box colors are not themable
> > separately, and the default ones (using selected for bg and fg) look
> > kinda weird with some themes, and
> >
> > b) there's no visual separation between the header and the content,
> > which also looks odd with several themes, where the selected bg and
> > the normal bg colors are very similar (or in general with darker
> > themes).
> >
> > Therefore I'd like to propose to add a hseparator between the header
> > and the content and put the stuff into a separate dialog class with
> > style properties for fg/bg, so the colors (and other visual aspects)
> > can be changed easily by themes. Also using a separate dialog class
> > allows us to change the look later easily (currently the
> > create_header function is kinda limited).
> >
> > http://foo-projects.org/~benny/tmp/new-header-look.png
>
> I like it.
>
> - Jannis

Out of curiosity, is the icon-shadow something added by the header?
(pixmap-composition).
Or is that in the icon-image?

Stephan



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