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More on RGBA support 9 January, 2010

Small post, just for the guys who don’t follow me on twitter.

For Ubuntu Lucid the desktop team started working on a patch which enables RGBA colormap by default, and adds client-side window decorations capabilities as well.
That means transparency to your applications and much more

Murrine will try to follow this trend, maybe slowly because I’m busy with other things, but something will happen.

For the braves, here’s the link to the bug.

Of course, donations to Murrine are always welcome!

Posted in Compiz, English, GNOME, GTK, Murrine, Themes |

10 Replies

1. mrmcq2u said:
   10 January, 2010 alle 7:41

   Just grabbed murrine from git to try and test it but it complains about gtk not being of a specific version.. I am working from the ppa for the rgba + client side window patches.

2. oNNy said:
   10 January, 2010 alle 12:27

   Sorry for asking such a dump question, but i´m new into this topic. What exactly does “RGBA colormap” or “client-side window decorations” change in metacity/gtk?
   Has it only affect on gtk-widgets or on the hole theme as well?

3. Cimi said:
   10 January, 2010 alle 12:58

   RGBA colormap means that Gtk+ gains an alpha channel to draw the window controls, the theme. With the alpha channel you could have transparency on the window controls, just like Windows or OSX.
   Client-side window decorations are decorations drawn within Gtk+.

4. oNNy said:
   10 January, 2010 alle 13:23

   Thank you for the answer!

5. Osz said:
   16 February, 2010 alle 11:23

   Hi there!

   I’m using the Murrine GTK-Engine on my Ubuntu system and I’m lovin’ it. Now I wanted to start creating some own themes for murrine but unfortunately I don’t know where to find a comprehensive documentation for available options to use in the own theme. Can you please help me and give me a hint?

   Greetings from Germany to Italy!

   Bartosz

6. Valent Turkovic said:
   10 March, 2010 alle 12:32

   Is this patch going in upstream gnome? If it is not then it will probably be removed in a few months when managing it becomes a problem.

   From what I have heard GNOME guys say there is no problem patching gnome to support transparency and to include it in upstream GNOME, just code has to be of some quality so that maintaining it doesn’t become a problem.

   We are looking to make Murrine default GTK engine on our Fedora Remix:
   http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/

   If I understand you correctly currently Murrine transparency feature is still not possible on Fedora 12 with stock GNOME, right?

7. Valent Turkovic said:
   10 March, 2010 alle 12:32

   The discussion I started some time ago:
   https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-January/msg00309.html

8. /kernel_reloaded/ said:
   10 March, 2010 alle 12:40

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