My update to Ubuntu Light themes 26 August, 2010
Here I wrote about the latest changes to the Ubuntu Light themes. Please send your feedback to the design blog (not here!)
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My hero for today 23 August, 2010
Carlos Garnacho is definitely my hero for today.
You can start imagining myself playing with that stuff in the next months, it deserves love from a new gtk+ engine 
EDIT: Maybe not only today, eventually tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after the day after tomorrow and so on…
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Murrine 2.0? 20 July, 2010
What would you like to see in a Gtk+ 3.0 engine?
This blog post is the right place to discuss your dreams
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Prague 17th-24th July 16 July, 2010
I’m just packing for Prague, I will be at the Ubuntu Platform Sprint to work on a lot of exciting things you’ll love.
Stay tuned 
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Cimi is in London 24 May, 2010
Hey guys… your favourite 
gtk+ engine hacker is in London till 29th (Canonical)… If you want to meet me it will be my pleasure
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Cimi is always-on in IRC 13 May, 2010
Small blog post to tell you I have finally set up an always-on connection to IRC in my home server… so, if you need to speak with me, you can always contact me trough IRC!!!
I’m in both Freenode (#murrine and #ubuntu-art) and Gimpnet (#gnome-art and #gnome-it), username… Cimi of course!
Don’t forget to follow me on twitter!
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Official Murrine’s Facebook Fan Page! :-) 31 March, 2010
I’ve just published the Official Facebook Murrine Fan page, I guess it could be useful to share updates as well as requesting new features
Just another way to connect!
Become Fan and suggest to your Linux friends!
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Let’s write more Murrine documentation! 15 March, 2010
It’s time to write documentation for the Murrine’s options: the development version in git is really advanced and could emulate an enormous number of styles thanks to the new options and features over the previous 0.90.3 stable release.
But, my time is precious and, as I am not payed to do it and the donations stopped 
, I can’t invest the same efforts I did in the past.
So, waiting better days, I decided with Kenneth from Ubuntu to open a page in the Ubuntu Wiki (later to be moved on live.gnome.org and on the official Murrine website), where themers could help writing a great documentation of this amazing (not because I am the author ) GTK+ engine.
Other major tasks before a new release is to improve RGBA support on few sides… I will definitely look into it in the future, when it will be possible!
If you want to support me in the development of the engine and new themes you could always sponsor me I am thinking about writing down a list of the donors, what do you think?
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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!
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An idea for Murrine (and then Clearlooks too) 13 June, 2009
I had an idea, I don’t remember exactly who asked me for it (maybe Gyb), but it is really simple: rename all menubarstyle, toolbarstyle, menuitemstyle (etc etc…) into style[menubar], style[toolbar], style[menuitem]… same thing for other options (color[scrollbar], color[focus], shade[lightborder] etc etc…).
We actually need to write a little parser for them in murrine_rc_style.c and/or clearlooks_rc_style.c.
The thing is: I don’t have time for it in these months.
So, if someone wants to write a small patch for it… it will be merged!
Have a good weekend…
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