Comments on: CSS on window borders experimental layout language

By: Implementa… say it! …tion - CSS on window borders

Implementa… say it! …tion - CSS on window borders — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:34:17 +0000

[...] is what the first draft of Cowbell [...]

By: Welcome - CSS on window borders

Welcome - CSS on window borders — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:59:36 +0000

[...] the first phase, a basic version was built and demonstrated. This work was supported by Collabora Ltd. You can still read the documentation for building [...]

By: Themes roundup – …for the adult in you

Themes roundup – …for the adult in you — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:54:01 +0000

[...] state of Cowbell. Speaking of universal theme formats, Cowbell is an attempt to allow theming using CSS rather than Metacity’s own rather recondite theme [...]

By: This Week In Metacity « ᛏᚦ

This Week In Metacity « ᛏᚦ — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:12:30 +0000

[...] have been supporting me in working on Metacity over the last week or so. I began by trying to get the CSS themes branch merged, but then decided that a better use of my time would be patch review, especially given the [...]

By: Screwtape

Screwtape — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:57:53 +0000

With the current theme format, if you want some particular effect like top-aligned buttons, since you can’t change the height of buttons you just leave them at full-height and only draw the ‘button’ shape on the top half.

Also, now that I think of it, perhaps having 1em be the width that makes square buttons is *not* the best idea – the height of the title area will be the height of the title text plus any line-height and padding on the title-text, so setting the button-width to 1em would likely make for slightly portrait-shaped buttons.

By: Chris Hills

Chris Hills — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:44:37 +0000

In response to Screwtape:-

Section 3.3

I would clamp the maximum button-height to the height of the title bar. This would allow for vista-style buttons which are top-aligned but do not extend to the bottom of the title bar.

By: Screwtape

Screwtape — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:31:47 +0000

I wanted to comment on the Cowbell docs, but the results are a little too large for this little blog comment so I’ve put them online here:

http://zork.net/~st/cowbell-themes.txt

Basically, as one who has done a little theming and a little CSS, I went through the docs section by section and noted down anything I found surprising or awkward-looking.

Hope this helps!

By: The Sunshine theme – …for the adult in you

The Sunshine theme – …for the adult in you — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:53:23 +0000

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By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:36:26 +0000

@Chris

Hmm, I do feel rather stupid for having missed that out of the tarball somehow; I’ve made it available as a separate download.

http://people.collabora.co.uk/~tthurman/cowbell/download/sunshine-100.tar.bz2

I’ll post about it separately.

By: Chris Hills

Chris Hills — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:02:22 +0000

To compile on OpenSUSE 11.1:-

# Repo for libccss
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Moblin://Factory/openSUSE_11.1/Moblin:Factory.repo

# Install required devel packages
sudo zypper in gtk2-devel gconf2-devel ccss ccss-devel libcanberra-devel librsvg-devel libsoup-devel gnome-doc-utils-devel startup-notification-devel

./configure –prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

–

The docs (section 2.2) says:- “Copy the contents of the src/themes/Sunshine directory to ~/.themes/Sunshine/cowbell/”

However, this seems to be missing from the tarball.

Thanks for your work!