Comments on: Understanding Metacity themes

By: Sorpigal

Sorpigal — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:47:21 +0000

@Trochee

You’d be correct in your guessing. Wikipedia confirms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowShade), which is what I remember as well.

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…for the adult in you » Justifying window titles — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:13:09 +0000

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By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:56:56 +0000

Benjamin: Good plan. This should certainly live on lgo in the long term, but in order to receive comments it rather needs to be blogged first.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:31:50 +0000

There is a copy of Glynns introduction on live.gnome.org at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/MetacityThemes. Now I am wondering how to move forward with the documentation. We could use the wiki or some other place, but I think it would be good if the documentation is not scattered around too much.

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:40:31 +0000

Screwtape: I am kicking myself here, because of course you are right. I have amended the text accordingly.

By: Screwtape

Screwtape — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:22:35 +0000

It is not immediately appear to me how the toggled version of maximize is generated, though I suppose I must have known at some point.

Looking at a theme I have here, for maximized windows the ‘maximize’ button is told to use draw_ops=”restore_button” rather than draw_ops=”maximize_button”.

By: Trochee

Trochee — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:53:56 +0000

I always guessed that “shaded” is called that because of the “windowshade” analogy, you know, the springloaded roller-blind that rolls up and out of the way when tugged sharply down. Hence “[window]shaded”.

By: ᛏᚦ » Blog Archive » Understanding Metacity themes

ᛏᚦ » Blog Archive » Understanding Metacity themes — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:46:57 +0000

[...] saying Metacity’s themes were under-explained, so I’ve spent a few days now writing the start of an explanation. I didn’t post it here because it’s a Metacity thing and belongs on the Metacity blog, [...]