I believe the best direction in the immediate future for Cowbell is as follows:
Fix the :hover and :active pseudoclasses.
Add support for v2 themes back in.
Provide a patch for Mutter.
Port some more themes, such as Crux.
Anyone wishing to advocate for anything else on the future directions list to come sooner is welcome to make their point, [...]
In order to demonstrate Cowbell more adequately, I asked Firinel to help design a new and simple theme. The result was Sunshine.
In order to test Cowbell, you will need to download Sunshine. Then follow the instructions in the README to unpack it into your ~/.themes directory. The tarball also includes a copy of Crux, [...]
I’m happy to announce the first experimental version of Metacity with support for CSS window borders (”Cowbell”). This work was largely supported by Collabora Ltd.
You can:
download the tarball;
read the documentation (it’s not as boring as you might imagine);
review the source history.
This diagram should explain everything, perhaps.
I would especially like to hear from:
theme artists, to let [...]
I posted a while ago about a system to represent window border styles in CSS. Well, once we had a workable system sorted out, it was time to add the support to a window manager. So I’ve recently been working on adding CSS support to Metacity. The most fiddly part so far [...]
Here’s a quick round-up of interesting goings-on in the Metacity and Mutter worlds this week.
Sam H wants to implement tabbed windows in the window manager (so that each application would think it had multiple windows open, but the user would see tabs). The responses included “awesome” and “my personal hero”. Sam H plans to work [...]
The recent discussion about CSS themes looks as though it may become one of the most interesting new ideas in theming in recent years. Here are some further thoughts on what may evolve from this.
An alternative. There is no general way, and few special ways, to convert expression-based v1 and v2 themes to the [...]
After all this talk about theme formats, an overview of how they are handled in other window managers seemed in order. Your chronicler is no expert on most of these systems, so there may well be mistakes below.
As you probably know, Metacity uses a complex and powerful (perhaps over-powerful) XML-based vector theme format.
Matchbox uses [...]
The previous post about extending the window menu caused a great deal of discussion. It would seem that our readers would be interested in an implementation. Thomas is considering working on this after the window matching experiments are more stable.
Now, we can imagine that any package might want to add menu options when it [...]
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