Fedora 9 Xfce Spin - Progress Report, Update

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 19 18:43:52 UTC 2008


Am Samstag, den 19.04.2008, 10:05 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> Hi,
> 
> Look and feel
> ------------
> 
> The default panel has a mixer and trash applet in it now. I wanted to 
> change the panel layout a bit, remove the desktop icons or add a 
> transparent border (which are relatively simple settings) but that 
> hasn't been done yet.
> 
> We are using the Nodoka colors currently but since Xfce cannot use 
> Metacity themes directly, we are sticking with the upstream default till 
> Nodoka gets ported or we pick a better one if needed. If anyone is 
> interested in porting Nodoka, take a look at
> 
> http://www.xfce.org/xfwm4-theme-howto/

I have ported Nodoka to xfwm4 this afternoon. It's an exact copy of
nodoka-metacity-theme-0.3.90-1.fc9, but it's not yet themable, this
means it doesn't pick up the colors set by the gtk theme like other xfce
themes do. Making it themable is harder than i thought.

Screenshot:
http://cwickert.fedorapeople.org/screenshots/xfwm4-nodoka.png

Tarball:
http://cwickert.fedorapeople.org/xfce4/Nodoka-xfwm4.tar.gz

Help and feedback is welcome,

Christoph




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