Category Archives: Themes v3

Squib of the day: SVG theme support

March 18, 2009 – 12:00 am

GNOME bug 107012 brings up the perennial question of SVG support in themes, otherwise known as Vectacity. We’ve already covered this in a few places, but I think it may be worth mentioning here the two main reasons SVG-based themes is a good thing (there may be any number of other reasons they’re a [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Also posted in Bug of the day, Vectacity | Comments (1)

Squib of the day: Special frame style for warning dialogues

March 16, 2009 – 12:00 am

GNOME bug 102548 suggests that warning dialogues should have a special frame style, and it’s suggested that this could look like safety tape wrapped around the edge.
This is not unlike the special frame style suggested here for root windows.  However, while there’s already a way for the window manager to tell whether a window [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Also posted in Bug of the day, EWMH | Comments (2)

Squib of the day: line weight

March 11, 2009 – 12:00 am

At present all lines are drawn at the same thickness.  However, some people such as partially-sighted users require particularly thick lines .  GNOME bug 86040 suggests that the line format be extended to give the width as a fraction of the current icon height.
Since this is a change to the format, it must appear first [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Also posted in Bug of the day, Themes, Vectacity | Comments (1)

Policy about theme versions

March 5, 2009 – 1:08 am

Metacity has a policy about enhancements which require changes to the theme format.  Metacity has to be both backwards and forward compatible.  In other words, it’s not enough that a later version of Metacity can run with themes intended for an earlier version.  Earlier versions must also be able to run with themes intended for [...]

By Thomas Thurman | Also posted in Policy, Themes, Vectacity | Comments (6)

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