GNOME Theming

¿Where?

The CSS Theme Engine for Gtk+, Version 0.1 is available for downloaded:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-css-engine/0.2/

4268420614b57a8e54a40e7fea3ea22c  gtk-css-engine-0.2.0.tar.bz2
c02e05a4d5afa2be54814ff9f2100dba  gtk-css-engine-0.2.0.tar.gz

¿What?

The Cascading Style Sheet Theme Engine for the GNU is Not UNIX Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit Plus (commonly just “CSS engine”) is an experimental theme engine reading styling information from CSS rather than the traditional gtkrc format.

Because of the fledgling status this project is still in, desktop-wide use of CSS themes is not supported yet. Currently The Widget Factory [1] is the recommended way for working with the CSS engine. The focus of this release is on basic CSS support.

Features:

• Border radius.
• Background image: -attachment, -position, -repeat, -size.
• External tool `css2gtkrc` for extracting gtkrc information from stylesheets.

Theme:

• Rounded corners.
• CSS compliant background-image settings.
• Use actual borders for checks and options, make them use 100% of the allocated space.

Internals:

• Create `color` property and use it for bg- and fg-color(in `block`, `style`, …).
• More robust parsing, handle (some) invalid CSS.
• Better stability, work around a problem in libcroco (b.g.o#553937).
• Have an internal instance of `ccss_style_t` with default values, `ccss_style_init()` initialises the style to those. Then drawing functions don’t have to check for `NULL` pointers any more, or, at least not handle them functionally.

¿How?

The engine ships a forthcoming port of the “Gilouche” theme by Jakub Steiner and Garrett LeSage. A screenshot is avavailable at:

http://www.gnome.org/~robsta/gtk-css-engine/0.2/Gilouche-CSS-0.2.png

¿Who?

• Andreas Nilsson: art.
• Robert Staudinger: code.

¿When?

The release-date for the subsequent version has not been determined yet, but we are confident that 0.3 will be the first version supporting desktop-wide use. Please refer to the roadmap (TODO file) for details.

[1] http://www.stellingwerff.com/?page_id=10