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Clearlooks Gtk-engine cairo patch

Submitted by Drom on Wed, 2005-11-09 15:35. GTK
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tirpse (aka SchAmane) made an Clearlooks gtk-engine patch to get animated progressbar and checkboxes using cairo. Just download latest clearlooks gtk-engine CVS, patch and compile.
You can read more or see demo videos. I also wrote a little how-to. If you have a problem, let us know at #gnome-art@irc.gnome.org.

Updated:tirpse and Remenic have done a clearlooks cairo patch (last announcement) revision. Animations are part of Clearlooks gtk-engine now and are based on gtkrc settings. You can find these in latest clearlooks CVS excluding slider animation.
You can read more information here or just see progressbar animation demo (h264 241K). Have a fun :)

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Clearlooks Gtk-engine cairo patch in cvs

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-11-13 18:39.

Hi all,
thanks for all your comments. We done this patches today in to cvs with new greate feature. Read more on my home page Clearlooks animated progressbar part 2

Mockup by Anonymous George
This mockups looks nice. But by Anonymous George
videos by Anonymous George

What happened to...

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 22:08.

A little while ago Daniel Borgmann mentioned that they were working on a super bling theme in parallel with clearlooks-cairo. Actually, his exact words were:

http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=11564&comment_id=17964
"Just wait until you see the candy theme we are working on in parallel. It makes Aero look shabby. ;)"

Does anyone know the progress on that? There were screenshots but the links don't work anymore.

Just compiled

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 13:21.

Its great, everything looks so smooth. The default color scheme of clearlooks-cairo is bad in my opinion. The light blue is too bright.

future

Submitted by Drom on Thu, 2005-11-10 07:25.

We hope Remenic will include this patch into clearlooks and animated functions will be able as --enable-animations or something like this. If not we will fork clearlooks and create our animated version.

lol

Submitted by Richard Stellin... on Fri, 2005-11-11 06:44.

Take it easy Mr. Drom. I WILL incorporate these patches, but I've been lacking the time to do so. I really like the animating checkboxes. They really give me the sense that GTK+ is finally entering the 21st century, just 5 years late.

I'll have a good look at the patches this weekend.

animation is going to be gtkrc options

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 11:12.

Disclaim: the last time I talked to Remenic was a month ago and before that always hanged out in #clearlooks and was the first person after Remenic in the channel and started anouncing it a few channels where lots of people where interested...

Remenic was working on making all the animations .gtkrc options he did this for the scrollbar in 0.6 he is going to do it for the rest in the cairo version. Also he plans on making a clearlook-editor which edits the options in .gtkrc with a nice slick useble UI, for version 1.

Looks nice but the CVS has bugs :(

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 07:11.

The patch itself works really nice for me, but there was some bug introduced in CVS as far as I can see, that makes scrolling and opening tabs in Epiphany very very very slow :-). And looks like the Patch is only working in the CVS version, because patching gtk-engines 2.6.5 would fail. Anyway good work...

Upgrade your cairo if it

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 12:47.

Upgrade your cairo if it isn't 1.0.2 or newer already. That should fix some slowness

thanks that did it :) by Anonymous George

it's getting brighter

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 04:02.

clearlooks is getting brighter and more saturated all constantly. i really hope they know their limits.

Very much agree. Previous

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 19:59.

Very much agree. Previous versions of Cairo were simple. That was their selling point. They were simple and effective at the same time as smooth and sexy. It was Gnome to a "T" (which is why they adopted it as the default theme). These new versions remind me a little of Microsoft's switch from Win2000 to WinXP. Everything looks like it's plastic and shiny and, as you said, saturated. I hope the people behind Clearlooks are aware of the magnitude of this change.

i actually like this new

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 17:35.

i actually like this new colour scheme :)

This color scheme is

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 23:29.

This color scheme is temporary/subject to drastic change.

quote from his blog:
"...you’re judging *work in progress* screenshots. These aren’t final shots."

Interesting

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 03:44.

The animated bits look interesting. Hopefully I'll be able to play with this soon on Gentoo and win32.