After reading Aruiz and Dylan I think I could ask your attention on that topic.
I like Dylan’s idea of a Do-ified GTK+ 3.0, it seems innovative, making user interaction more accessible and faster. At least, this is my personal opinion.
From Dylan:
@Cimi: it would be great to see Do-like functionality incorporated in Gnome 3, not just on the desktop, but also at the application level. Programs like the Gimp or Inkscape use a lot of keyboard shortcuts that may be hard to memorize all-at-once. Using the Do-metaphor *within* the application will let you invoke functions quickly, and discover keyboard shortcuts in the process.
I don’t have anything against Mono, but for Do to become an integral part of the Gnome Desktop, I think it would almost have to be part of GTK+, because it needs to communicate with other parts of the interface to know which functions are applicable given the situation (it makes no sense to list ‘Crop to selection’ as an option when nothing has been selected).
I must agree with him, sometimes keyboard shortcuts are complicated to use: how can I remember alt+g, alt+k, alt+y, alt+s, ctrl+alt+h, ctrl+alt+h+super+t+f12+enter+backspace? (omg I’m not playing the piano 
I just want to use my computer!!!)
Typing “fullscreen” is easier than remembering Totem is using “F11″, Banshee “F”, another application “Ctrl+Alt+F” and so on… And while “fullscreen” is something known and famous, what about exotic shortcuts that almost each application has? Those are just useless… and dangerous! Imagine if I press “Ctrl+W” on an important document because I forgot the right command…
Now, your thoughts please 
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I’m almost sure I will forget
However, for the guys like me that usually miss meetings today there’s our art meeting at 20:00 UTC [0] 
As always, channel #gnome-art on irc.gimp.org!
The Agenda so far is:
- Introduction, News
- Discussion of the Roadmap Draft by Hylke [1]
- Miscellaneous
If I won’t be online/in front of the PC, these are the three things I would like to see implemented as soon as possible:
- RGBA xsetting/environment variable (whatever gtk+ devs decides) to test also RGBA bugs inside applications. This could start in gtk+ 2.x and be complete for 3.0.
- Colorscheme support continuing the work of giusef (Giuseppe Fuggiano)
- Give the us the ability to theme the panel (with widget_register?)
Hope to see you!
[0] World Clock (check your local time)
[1] GNOME 3.0 Roadmap by hbons
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Unfortunately many people don’t use bugreports, maybe because they came from Windows where bugreports are not present and not encouraged. This post is just about this: please use bugreports.
If you find something that you don’t like, something that you think that can be improved, or if you just have an idea, use the bugzilla!
For example: there are some glitches when using a dark gtk+ theme with the murrine/clearlooks engine and…I’ll attach a screenshot…
Or: I would like to have an option to change the progressbar style on my murrine themes…
Or even more: I have made a mockup for the tabs/notebook of murrine, here it is…
So, please click here to send a new bugreport for murrine (development version, svn).
Eheheh… I love the GNOME’s bugzilla logo from andreasn (ops) alberto
Posted in ArchLinux, Compiz, English, GNOME, GTK, Icons, Metacity, Murrine, Themes | 12 Comments »
Since everyone here seems to be interested in destroying our community from the inside I’d like to throw my impressions and my ideas.
I think that, rather than thousand discussions about ethical/philosophical reasons behind this whole feeling (these discussions in the end are useless, in my opinion), what we should do is involving more guys from the community. Exactly.
The simple advantage of the free software is that everyone can contribute, and at the same time the disadvantage is that our biggest softwares are usually maintained/developed only by few guys…
The impression I had in these 2 years of experience as a GNOME dev is that _we_are_few_, and much of the ideas and features we have in mind can’t be done because the time is limited and two devs can’t work on 100 bugfix and 100 new features at the same time. Bugs have the priority, of course, so we will see only few features of the planned ones. But if these 2 devs were 6 (so 4 new contributors) I’m sure we would have seen a different scenario, with much more features implemented of the 100 requested
From my experience, unfortunately, much of the work I’ve done was done alone, without, for example, a couple of guys who could have helped me in getting the same things done quicker.
Seeing the number of new linux users that everyday are switching from other operating systems, I’m sure that the number of contributors should increase, that’s the way! Imagine 100 new gnome devs! ehehe too optimistic Imagine a free software world where everyone learns how to contribute with his small part, translating, doing a new icon, working on a plugin… the bugzilla *attach+patch+review* is so slow with only 2 devs for each module.
We should involve more guys, maybe I’m too optimistic, but it’s my vision. And, imho, this is the only way.
PS: maybe we could recruit guys from a special wiki page in GNOME Live, with the list of the modules/softwares that need help?
Posted in English, GNOME, GTK, Icons | 20 Comments »
Unity and GNOME-Alternative hits GNOME’s trunk (gnome-themes-extras).
I will do the 2.22.0 release when andreasn will answer me if he needs some more days to complete Foxtrot Icon Theme
Anyway I will wait since Unity is in testing, so I can do some fixes if someone notices some bugs.
P.S.: We chose the name Unity over Suave since it follows the design and it means something more (Suave got problems with translations/meanings between languages)
P.P.S.: I’ve changed a little bit the text of the inactive titlebar so should be more usable. No screenshots for the moment
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Mentre Ossblog smentiva… il vostro buon Cimi, imperterrito e testardo più che mai , continuava ad affermare l’avvento del tema Firefox 3 per Linux…
…ebbene è praticamente finito
I miglioramenti
Già sul wiki di tango potete osservare come manchi veramente poco dal punto di vista delle icone, mentre sul bugzilla si legge che stanno per essere inviate le modifiche al tema grafico in modo che usi le icone native e i controlli (come toolbar e tabs) del tema GTK corrente.
Il nuovo tema si chiamerà Gnomestripe.
Fantastico!
Posted in GNOME, GTK, Icons, Italian, Themes | 10 Comments »
Tango, Tango, Tango!
Evvai!!!
I progressi li potrete osservare cliccando sul link qui sotto… non ci sono ancora molte icone, ma pensate che ci stanno lavorando da tre giorni!
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Firefox
Posted in Icons, Italian, Themes | 4 Comments »
Post brevissimo ma importante, perchè ci sono conferme alla mia anticipazione.
Molto bene
Fonte: Il blog del mio amico Andreas (tra l’altro mio omonimo )
Posted in Icons, Italian | 5 Comments »
Si parlava (anzi io proponevo e tenevo sveglio il povero andreas che voleva giustamente dormire) di fare un wallpaper ufficiale per gnome 2.20 ed è saltato fuori un commentino davvero interessante Lo vedete anche voi?
<andreasn> hm, can’t remember where I put it
<andreasn> I’ll try to find it tomorrow
<andreasn> although, I think we can do something new
<andreasn> would this be for the live cd (are we doing one?) or something else?
<Cimi> default one in gconf?
<andreasn> ah, you want to ship it in the desktop release
<Cimi> yes
<Cimi> so when someone upgrade
<Cimi> it sees it
<andreasn> so if I upgrade, does it replace the one I currently have (of my girlfriend, my dog or whatever)?
<Cimi> no it shouldn’t
<Cimi> but
<Cimi> if you do a fresh install
<Cimi> it should
<andreasn> or is it just if no background is selected, so it doesn’t look like this: http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2006-01.html#04
<Cimi> here i have a gray bg
<Cimi> yes that shit
<andreasn> totally
<Cimi> we should remove the foot
<Cimi> or make it alpha/capable
<andreasn> we were thinking of aiming for The Grande Art remake for 2.22, but it wouldn’t hurt to start early
<andreasn> anyway, you are keeping me up you lurky bastard
<andreasn> I’m off to bed!
<Cimi> ahaha
<Cimi> ok andreas
<Cimi> have a nice night from andrea
<andreasn> night (and I mean it this time )
<andreasn> night dude!
* andreasn è uscito (Zzz)
Ancora non è il momento forse si specularci sopra… ma tra supporto alle animazioni direttamente dalle gtk, nuovi sfondi, completa copertura del gnome-icon-theme a tutto il desktop… Potrebbe saltar fuori qualcosa di carino!
Speriamo… io non ho molta voglia di “tirare fuori” un altro tema dopo Gummy, lavorarci da solo è veramente stancante… (purtroppo non abbiamo, oltre a me, “designer di interfacce” nel vero senso della parola, perchè gli altri sviluppatori di gtk-engines si occupano del noioso ma indispensabile lavoro di bugfixing)… soprattutto perchè spero “basti” visto che lo sto usando da maggio e non mi ha annoiato per niente!
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Tutti colori che visitano questo blog sono abituati ad avere novità
Eccone una: Come promesso ho iniziato il lavoro per gnome-themes-extras, che è stato riscritto da zero (dal sottoscritto) e che ora contiene 3 icon set nuovi:
- Foxtrot
- Gion
- Dropline Neu!
Da notare che sono stati compilati con i nuovi tool icon-naming-utils, e che pertanto sono più completi delle versioni originali dei loro autori.
Inoltre ho aggiunto un tema gtk scuro:
Come sempre, scarichiamo dall’ svn:
$ svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-themes-extras/trunk gnome-themes-extras
Compiliamo:
$ cd gnome-themes-extras
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
$ make
Da root:
# make install
Oppure se siete su ubuntu:
$ sudo make install
Alla prossima!
Cimi
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