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| Feature | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| Gradient Glow | A glow which can be added to buttons, maybe configurable through a glow_ratio option. EDIT: Implemented and added also glowstyle option. Status: Implemented | 9 |
| Theme the panels | Panels by default are very simple. It must be modificable by the engine to complete the nice look. For example a gradient or a glaze. The posibility of paint line borders and highlights also. Finally add transparent background and all it will be great. | 8 |
| Progressbar Style | It would be nice if you could add other styles for the progress bar. I.E. without the diagonal stripes or with a beam of light moving along the progress bar. Status: Implemented | 8 |
| Add Arrowstyle | Give alternatives Arrows, for example from Nodoka's 0.8.0 branch and/or Aurora. Status: Implemented | 3 |
| Theme the Focus Ring | Theming the focus ring. It requires mockups before coding. Please use the Mockup Section to submit your ideas. Status: Implemented | 3 |
| Slider background | How about a well defined background for the slider, something like the one used in osx? A vertical gradient_shade and rounded corners. I'll attach some screenshots just to make this clear :) Status: Implemented | 3 |
| Smooth separator | Hello Cimi and thanks for the good work I was hoping for an option to have smooth separators a long time ago. I was looking into your source those days to try to understand how to make an engine myself (one day maybe). Anyway look at the attachment to see how it looks. It's fairly easy to draw but i don't know yet how to add an option. See the attached patch. I hope you like it. Status: Implemented | 2 |
| Widget Style Documentation | I would like to see some documentation on what styles for each widget are possible with the engine without having to browse through all the themes on this website and gnome-looks.org . It would be nice to know which features will be used in upcoming versions and what features will be deprecated.
For example, give a small wiki page on scrollbars and list of the options with a small screenshot for each style.
I don't think any other gtk engine has good styling instructions for themers. I think Murrine already has an advantage with this website, but styling docs would be super helpful. Status: Work in Progress | 2 |
| Set opacity of widgets | I know this has been discussed somewhere, and IIRC you said “would be nice but not in the immediate plans”, but I figured we should have a request to track ;-) The request here is to be able to define opacity/alpha for each widget. By default, Murrine does close to the opposite of what I want; I want translucent menus and almost-transparent editors with opaque text. But I realise that's not what most want, so the best way to get what I want is by having opacity defined in the gtkrc. | 2 |
| Slider | When you use the options:
GtkRange::trough-border = 0 GtkRange::trough-under-steppers = 0 and a roundnes for scrollbars, the slider remains squared, so when it is at end of scrollbar the effect is that overdraws the borders. Can you do sliders rounded for this case? Also an idea, make an option for the junction of stepper and slider to make it rounded or concave etc.. Saludos. Status: Implemented | 2 |
| Is it possible to make a round corner rectangle while hovering on the check buttons? | It is a square right now, and ignoring the roundness option.
And btw, GtkScale/slider is one of the last widgets that don't have a rounded apparence. Could you make it use roundeness option too? Status: Implemented | 2 |
| smaller scrollbar of emacs/acroread | Hello, this ocurrs when GtkRange::trough-border = 2, affected apps are emacs and acroread. I got this when launching emacs: ** (emacs:19060): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion `height >= -1' failed And the scrollbar on gnome-terminal looks a little bit weird, too. | 2 |
| Implement RGBA in nautilus. | If it is possible it would be very nice to implement RGBA sport in nautilus. Status: Rejected | 2 |
| Option to remove shadows from INSENSITIVE widgets | Currently, in dark themes, a white shadow appears in the fg of INSENSITIVE widgets. It would be nice to have the option to remove the shadow or to choose a different color. Status: Implemented | 2 |
| Glossy style with GTK_SHADOW_NONE or ability to eliminate outlines. | I don't know if it depends on murrine engine, but: setting shadow-type = GTK_SHADOW_NONE makes the outlines disappear but at the same time the menubar/toolbar styles get ignored and they become flat. Otherwise, without GTK_SHADOW_NONE but with contrast = 0.0 the outline doesn't go away and i can't make my fancy gradient on the whole window. What i am asking is the ability to make the outlines disappear without loosing the glossy style. In the exaple attached, lines should not be there and the gradient should continue without be broken (by the outlines). | 1 |
| Text shadow | Hey, what about text shadows? It'll allow various new possibilites. It came to my mind, when I saw this information bar thingy in nautilus ( http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2873/example2t.png ). I did a quick mockup with html. The used CSS for the example is: #n1 { Font rendering locks different, but I think it helps to get the intention. Hope, you like it. :) Status: Implemented | 1 |
| Gradient on troughs | So, I've gone ahead and implemented an option for adding gradients to scrollbar troughs. I'm pasting the patch below -- it would be great if you would consider it for inclusion in the engine! In addition, it would be nice to get similar gradients on all other troughs too. Maybe I'll add those later. . The patch implements two new rc options that allow you to set the trough gradient like this: trough_gradients = TRUE trough_shades = {0.90, 0.975, 0.975, 1.05} . My patch should be applied to the latest version in Git. For reference, here's what "git show" gives me: Status: Implemented | 1 |
| Scrollbar styling options | - Scrollbar trough caps should have no roundness to match scrolled-window that is always squared (or at least an option for it) - Honour scrollbar-whitin-bevel property. Currently, it's draw outside the scrolled-window, having a border on all sides (which leads to a 2px border if you use scrollbar-spacing = 0). Status: Implemented | 1 |
| A barebone engine to use as template for hacking | This is a weird feature request, because it's not really related to the Murrine engine per se.
Given your expertise in GTK engines, and your knowledge about best practices and pitfalls of engine design, it would be amazing for the community if there was a barebones cairo-based engine that just painted every widget as a simple black-and-white box. Engine-authors-to-be could, then, just take that code as a template from which to create their own engines.
What do you think? Status: Implemented | 1 |
| shadows | Hello, it would be nice to add shadows for several widgets: buttons, frames, checkbuttons, entries, scrollbars, sliders, etc. which can make murrine look more modern.
Here's a mockup from NODOKA:
https://fedorahosted.org/nodoka/wiki/0.8.x_Brainstorm#MODERN Status: Implemented | 1 |
| Concave style ignores roundness | When glazestyle=2 (concave style), no matter the roundess is, it alawys shows a squared widget.
I'd like to know if it's meant to be so or just a bug? Status: Rejected | 1 |
| Bug report: Dark squared border of GtkEntry, GtkSpinbutton | 1. GtkEntry: ocurrs when toolbarstyle = 1 or 2 (non-flat), bg[NORMAL] of entry is different from the toolbar.
2. GtkSpinbutton: ocurrs when bg[NORMAL] of spinbutton is different from the widget below spinbutton, e.g. notebook, normal bg.
workarounds: align same/similar bg[NORMAL] for affected widgets. Status: Implemented | 1 |
| Is it possible to remove the shadows around spinbutton? | It's not so obvious on other background.
And I checked the changelog, which reads
"2009-01-04 Andrea Cimitan <andrea.cimitan@gmail.com>
* src/cairo-support.c (murrine_draw_lightborder), (murrine_draw_glaze): Removed horizontal parameter to lightborder, this fixes spinbuttons, but could break vertical widgets, please test and report bugs if you see a misplacement of the lightborder." Does this has sth to do with the problem? Status: Implemented | 1 |
| check button/radio bug? | you can see the attachment, they are supposed to have the same appearence.
I didn't notice this problem in other engines.
In the checkbutton section, I wrote:
style "theme-check-radio-button" = "theme-button" { text[NORMAL] = @base_color text[PRELIGHT] = @base_color engine "murrine" { glowstyle = 4 } } Edit: Aurora set check button/radio white by default, I think that's why they look similar. please check the other attachment. | 1 |
| bug report | 1. In firefox, combo box/entry dosen't look consist with bg_color. but it does look good while mouse hovering on it. BTW, openoffice has the same problem, but hovering doesn't make any changes.
2. Can't set progressbar/scrollbar background, they always use bg_color (lighter or darker).
3. tabs have no glows any more, it used to be similar to clearlooks/nodoka/aurora. Status: Rejected | 1 |
| Gradients on the whole window | It would be sweet to have gradients on the whole window, in particular when GTK_SHADOW_NONE is on (unified look). I'm not so sure, but it should be class "GtkWindow" and "MetaFrames". I'm sorry for this, but if you want to see an example, just look at any mac os leopard screenshot. Status: Rejected | 1 |
| New jaunty theme..... | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/SimpleFlatWindow Is it possible to make a theme like this one? Thank you | 1 |
| Scrollbar handle | I'd like a deeper/darker handle for the scrollbar, something easier to get focused. I'm sorry to attach a vista aero screenshot.. will you forgive me? | 1 |
| border in active tab only | hello i wanted to create a "border" only in active tab http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6943/capturevs.png (do not blame me for the mockup) in this screenshot i made with gimp a small border in active tab (left one) if i add contrast to notebooks it takes all the tabs even the inactive could be nice to get the choice. do you think it's possible idea ? thank you for reading best regards | |
| gradient_shades enabled for the whole progressbar | Hi cimi, I would like to be able to enable a progressbar, which is similar to the ubuntulooks engine. I know there are already the cells for the progress, but I can't enable the gradient_shades for the back of the progressbar. The option of trough_shades is not satisfying, because it only has two variables and the highlight_shade is also ignored. I hope you are going to implement such an option. | |
| Menu-Drop-Shadow in RGBA enabled applications | I've just noticed that in RGBA-enabled applications, there is no menu-drop-shadow. However shadow is shown perfectly in Firefox and Nautilus which are RGBA-disabled apps. Status: Rejected | |
| Replace deprecated features in various Murrine themes | hilight_ratio and highlight_ratio should both be changed to highlight_shade. This affects at least Murrine-Sky, Murrina Blue, Murrina Candido, and Murrine-Light. Also lightborder_ratio should be lightborder_shade in Murrina Chrome. | |
| terminal output | Although the output of the murrine rgba thing is quite convenient for customizing .profile, it renders dialog applications like zenity almost useless. Like this:
user@desktop$ echo `zenity --entry` #filled in: blahblah progname=zenity; RGBA=on blahblah So the usage of zenity in scripting gets screwed unless I go berserk with awk. Feature request: I'm not sure. There is a difference between stdout and stderr, right? Or make some .log file. Or create a verbose / debug switch to be called in .profile. I don't know how difficult it all is, so the right feature choice is up to you. Status: Rejected | |
| Add control over not yet filled progressbar-bg | First of all thanks for your work, it's really good. My question is to enable control over the background of the progressbar that is not yet filled. In the clearlooks engine this would be bg[NORMAL] but in murrine this only controls the border color. I hope my question is clear. Status: Implemented | |
| different styles of the arrows | Honestly, I don't like the current arrows, which are used in scrollbar_steppers and ComoboxButtons, as they don't look like the arrows within treeviews (I don't need a screenshot, because everybody can see this in nautilus).
Of course, most themes won't look good with another arrow style now, but new arrows will be an interesting feature.
Here you can see my idea for the new engine-option
arrowstyle = 0 # (default Clearlooks-like arrow-style) arrowstyle = 1 # (filled triangle - the old murrine scrollbar arrow, but also for the ComboBox and MenuItems) Status: Implemented | |
| Option to hidden frames | I don't know if it's possible, cause I cannot understand if all the lines I don't like, belong to GtkFrame widgets. If it's so, it should be sufficient to add an option in the engine to set GtkFrame::shadow-type = GTK_SHADOW_NONE.
I add an image showing what's the situation now and a mockup of what I would, in thunar and medit
P.S. If there's a simple solution, Cimi, you can reply to me here | |
| change the home page because it is incorrect | I couldn't find a better place to submit this so here it is. Murrine does not mean "glass artworks done by Venetian (or Muranese) glassblowers." It means glass tiles with color in them that are often laid out to create patterns on glass pieces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murrine Status: Implemented | |
| Effects | Please,if possible, add effects options to content of widgets. E.g.: Options: blur, glow, shadow, etc applied to icon. Button with icon. Button state normal - no effects Button state disabled - blur content of button (icon) Like Bespin style in KDE. Sorry for bad English. | |
| Animated hover effects | I know that the Aurora engine has something kind of like this (when hovering over widgets, there are two steps in drawing the highlight). Judging from the fact that checkboxes and radiobuttons can fade, I would also venture a guess that it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to do with Cairo. The only thing is that it might cause a fair amount of overhead, which would be completely counter to what Murrine is all about. Status: Rejected | |
| Can we change the radiocheck color? | First, I also posted this at launchpad, but so far mine is the only question there. If this is the wrong place to post a question -- if it should be a bug request or somplace else, please just let me know and we'll nix this post. Status: Work in Progress | |
| Give back the Notebook stripe | I miss it, it's the last connection to the old Clearlooks-Engine and looks more nice than a single gradient. Please give at least an option for the stripe? I feel sure that some more would appreciate it. Status: Need Info | |
| Fix textbox background in Firefox (?) | For some sites, I can't see text in textbox as I type with my dark skin (Neon).
Some sites show white text on black background (i.e google.com), some black text on white background (i.e searching in gmail with default theme) and some, the annoying ones, show white text on white background (i.e yahoo.com).
Or is this issue only with textbox bgcolor set to #fff in css? Status: Rejected | |
| Ability to round panel icons seperately of other menu/app icons | I was wondering whether there is a way of rounding the corners of the gnome 'Main Menu' separately of the other gtk roundness? for example changing:
roundness = 2
to 4 or 5 in the gtkrc makes every part of the menu rounded, included buttons etc. Is there a way to do this but just for specific panel apps? would it be a case of somehow using two gtk themes?
Cheers Dan PS: sorry for the post in the Feature Request section... I couldnt really find any forum or anything Status: Rejected | |
| Panel gradients | Just, if it's possible, because another style than the default flat would look good, especially it would provide a wide selection for creativiy. | |
| Gradient to background of scrollbar | The posibility to decorate the background of scrollbars, not only steppers and slider. Status: Implemented | |
| Increased Contrast while hovering | Dear Cimi, What do you think about the idea of dynamically increase the widget contrast (I.e. a button) while hovering? I think this can fit well with the focus ring concept! Looking forward to having an answer, I thank you for your work and effort. fym Status: Rejected | |
| Rounded menu item of menubar looks bad | When apply roundness to menuitem of menubar down side of item rounds too. It isn't nice. Can be only top rounded? Status: Implemented | |
| lightborder for all widgets | Actually lightborder option is not aplicable to menu items, Can you improve it? Status: Implemented | |
| glazstyle bug? | I've found a weird thing, that is when I set glowstyle = 0, the combo box and expander are a little bit larger than other glazstyles. From the screenshot, you can see the size difference between two styles (1 pixel?) Status: Rejected | |
| Progressbar Roundness | Let's do rounded Progressbars! Please add draw squared progressbars inside treeviews (add your custom matches in thew gtkrc) Status: Implemented | |
| Curved GTK treeview widgets | Well heres how it goes, Banshee's curved widgets look sweet. To the best of my understanding the kde folk have been enjoying curved treeview widgets for quiet some time now. The request is to have curved treeview widgets on a theme level. Have the themer decide whether to have curved widgets or not in their theme rather than having a per application implementation. This would ensure that coherency stays in the gnome desktop, Its definitely the next step in theming if you ask me and most importantly, It would look really, really, really, really sweet to have this type of feature in themes. Status: Rejected | |
| Thunderbird or Murrine bug?? | In thunderbird menubar items don't have the configured look but looks like menu items.. Is it a bug of murrine or thunderbird? Is there any way to fix it?? Status: Rejected | |
| Buttons and menubar items look! | Flat style of buttons show a line in the middle for tho divided gradients.. Is it possible to add a really flat style for buttons? In other words a style with "uniform" colour? About menubar items, it is possible to give them a reserved style? In other words, menubar items should have their personal style (the same for buttons) and not to be the same of buttons or menu items. Status: Implemented | |
| Please fix rendering issues in Firefox. | There are some issues with rendering in Firefox. Here are some screenshots: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/eAqJ3_glIidNmXbgGY4wBQ http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/BUkTZR0a9B5vvHZheGaAbw Thank you for your time. Status: Rejected | |
| Fix button borders inside firefox | The button border in Firefox (or anything using gecko) doesn't fit. Looks like the width equals the height.
I think I sent a patch with a fix a long time ago. Status: Need Info | |
| Borderless Video | This request is a simple one, borderless video. Having a border around the video takes away from the clean look of certain themes. Currently I am using the murrine version of dust theme tweeked with the nice cream shades from gilouche instead of the cold grey. What I found slightly disapointing was that for alot of things this theme looks great, you can tweek nautilus's and firefox's layout to give a beutifull clean bordless edge around the actual content. Video on the other hand doesnt get the same love. Status: Rejected | |
| Treeview progressbar animation | It would be nice if the progressbar animation would also work for progressbars inside of treeviews. However, this might be cpu-intensive (not sure about that) so it should be optional. Status: Rejected |
