[Design-team] Advice Request - GTK+ theming

[Kris Thomsen]

Thanks, Martin.

I think you should take a look at Equinox to see how they made their
advanced progressbars - those are stunning! :D

// Kris

2010/4/20 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 23:04 +0200, Kris Thomsen wrote:
>> Your work look very good so far :)
>>
>> Will play a little with Inkscape when I get the time. How do I make
>> widgets? Are there some templates or rules to follow for the different
>> parts?
> Rules? No. Limitations -- yes: even though the code is written in C and
> we can get pretty wild, it's still not a good thing to draw outside of
> widget's allocated space (thus to draw shadows, we need to make the
> actual drawing of the widget a bit smaller,...), the more complex you
> design the widget, the slower it will draw, think about usability --
> does it stand out enough, does it fit well with the rest of the
> theme, ...? Also, we are not supposed to know the progress of
> progressbars we are drawing, so advanced effects on their fill are out
> of question, ...
>
> I'm not aware of templates either, I just use things like masks, rounded
> rectangles, circles and gradients (all of these are easily replicated
> with Cairo in the drawing code when implementing it).
>
> I attach an SVG with the widgets I originally designed for the code you
> just built, to have some reference/example, plus you can get more SVG
> examples on the bottom of the 0.8.x brainstorm page (these are mostly
> obsoleted older designs, but for reference good enough):
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/nodoka/wiki/0.8.x_Brainstorm
>
> Martin
>
>
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