Notes for a local version of Sugar-100 theme called sugar-100-siri as reference to Siri's theme corrections when running the theme in an XFCE environment.
Problem
Visual inconsistency: The Sugar theme is designed using the Gtk toolkit, and some applications use the standards offered by the Qt toolkit.
Strategies
- Other XFCE-themes must have had this problem! Choose one for reference
- and adapt their changes to the Sugar theme. Huayruru has sugarbased xfce-themes.
- Map visual flaws and report them as bugs to the Sugar Theme team:
- Jonas Smedegaard and myself.
Design
- Flat design
- High Contrast icon theme as fallback (not Adwaita), similar in expression
- Strong colors in addition to black and grey theme
Structure
/gtk-2 (toolkit)
- gtkrc
/gtk-3
- gtk.css gtk-widgets.css settings.ini
/xfwm4
- themerc
Window manager icons (in (png and) xmp format).
close (cross, no toggle variant (dialog-cancel.svg)) maximize (window(s) or window with arrows (view-fullscreen.svg)) hide (underscore, no toggle variant (look at Piranha theme (circles))) menu (arrow down (go-down.svg)) shade (arrow up, toggled down (go-up.svg)) ?stick? (circle (view-radial.svg)
variations: -active (white icon, shade 5 background) -inactive(white icon, pale background) -pressed (shade 5 icon, white background) -toggled-active -toggled-inactive -toggled-pressed
white/ shade 1 shade 2 shade 3 shade 4 black/ full color/ shade 5
Themes correspond with their iconset in usr/share/icons/
Content of icon theme sugar.orig
/cursors
/scalable
- /actions /apps /categories /control /device /emblems /mimetypes /status
icon-theme.cache index.theme
Noted flaws
with Sugar theme and Sugar icons.
- Sugar does not fully cover the xdg-standard for iconsets.
- Icon fallbacks in Thunar (desktop, filesystem, trashcan, folder, network), Icedove (get messages, write, chat, address book, tag, decrypt - search, filter and dropdown menu arrows are 'sugary') and
Iceweasel menus. Inheritance set to ?HighContrast in icons.theme
- Icon fallbacks in Thunar (desktop, filesystem, trashcan, folder, network), Icedove (get messages, write, chat, address book, tag, decrypt - search, filter and dropdown menu arrows are 'sugary') and
- Frames and icons in content of websites too radical (look for plugin)
- FIXED: Icedove: Selected color white and Icedove inverted active text color
- white in text 'button' when opening submenu (background doesn't change to grey) Grey background clash with Icedove address text color grey when sending mail (text grey when Qt 4 GUI Gtk+ is active, otherwise black) Evince: White text and background in file selection window Connection manager: White text and light grey backgrounds in manage connection selection menu xfwm4-settings: Combobox prelight background and foreground color both white.
- Tickbox and text overlap in submenus (Icedove, Iceweasel, Scribus)
- (not in Appearence)
- Tab menus don't fit with Sugar's circled indication of selection
- (change bg color) (Appearence, Scribus, content of Thunar ind icon set view) (not or disappearing in seconds with Qt GUI set to Gtk+)
- Inkscape export combobox text fiels is too small to contain more than one
- digit
- No sugar style for window manager
- Evince and gtk-demo has its own "window manager" toolbar, following the
- gnome standards.
- Cursor set is big and clumsy and only show inside borders of certain
- windows (Iceweasel (gtk-2.0), not Thunar (gtk-2.0))
- Libreoffice: Grey squared background shows behind rounded text fields.
- Spelling icons don't match with black background. Prelight fg and bg are both white in dialog boxes.
- Composit windows (necessary to shadow windows) makes selection in terminal
- mode white out, when windows are layered.
Notes
- Gtk theme needs to be in usr/share/themes for xfwm4 to recognize it
- Gtk-2 control styling by gtkrc-file.
- Gtk-3 control styling by css-files
- Window frames has xfwm4 icons and shape in bitmaps (png and xpm).
- Xpm is necessary - allocates the space. Theme and typography is set in 'Window management'. Theme needs settings in themerc.
'Qt 4 settings' -> select gtk+ (test)
- Touchscreens work with Metacity
- Evince already has a kind of window manager with perfectly usable icons
- (Adwaita symbolic) - with the Gnome stadard (or maybe not?).
- Cursor theme has cursor.theme file (where?)
- Background image can be placed anywhere and must be chosen in the desktop
- manager widget. (What is the preferred location?)
- Splash screen in usr/share/images/desktop-base (symlink to desktop-splash)
- Size something like 1920 x 1200 px
Decisions
- Sugar theme look here: Thunar, panels, window frames
- Should the theme interfere in app design in Iceweasel, Icedove etc.?
Tasks
- DONE via theme.index Inheritance: Create symlinks from High Contrast icon theme
- (NONE FOUND) Test if programs crash when using Gtk+ theme in Qt programs.
- Identify possible sources to flaws
- Look for Iceweasel plugin to manage fallback in content of websites
- DONE Distribution logo in upper left corner in icons /apps/xfce4-panel-menu.svg
- and in index.theme directories list (lookup directory). Scalable preferred.
- DONE Find, choose, copy and modify bitmaps and themerc settings from window
- theme with similar features (Murrinableu (pointy) or Gaudy (rounded))
- DONE Create bitmap icons for window manager
- Write bug reports
- Create splash screen and place it correctly
- Create desktop image and place it correctly
- Create alpha package for Debian
- Report theme changes in git
- Create colored theme variation
Steps
2. Fedorabased distribution - deadline 10. juli (travelday) new language, Aruajun, translations no xfce xo 1.5 image deadline january, implementing before march
3. Debianbased distribution Huayruru - Supersugar For the secondary school Version 1.0 by November 2015 Basic Sugar in Debian Basic Xfce (tilrettet) Applications - small selection - games (Laura Arjona)/ educational software (skolelinux, Paul Wise)/ debian junior
Killer apps
Governmental list of reference
Preferred (Whisker menu) Affordance
Useful Liberating Attractive Empowering Sustainable
Gtk based applications
darktable inkscape pqiv rawtherapee synfig studio ufraw icedove iceweasel galculator gajim ario pdf-shuffler xournal xscreensaver thunar libreoffice
Qt based applications
scribus qutecom
xlib
Imagemagic ssh-askpass
tk -- imagemagick
x11 --- mypaint sxiv pidgin gimp
ncurses
openssh-client ispell mpv
spl --- mpv
athena
x11