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symbiote
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 Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 10:53 am Post subject: GTK+2 Menushadows and Improved File Selection |
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I've always wanted window/menu shadows, and found the standard gtk file selection dialog to be, well, ugly. I found a couple of patches that improves GTK2+ by adding menu shadows and a more detailed file selector.
patches:
http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/gtkenhancements/index.html
http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xfce/gtk+-menushadow.patch
Here's a simple ebuild that I made where it applies both patches. I wasn't sure what to name it, so I just called it -r2, since latest on my system was -r1.
ebuild:
http://stealthdildo.net/ebuilds/gtk+-2.2.4-r2.tar.bz2
Simply unpack it to PORTAGE_OVERLAY, or /usr/local/portage, then emerge -U it.
As for the fileselector, here's something taken from the site:
| Code: | Some features have performance penalties. Here are some environment variables to disable them.
* Set GTK_FILESEL_NO_ICONS to 1 to disable looking up icons for files.
* Set GTK_FILESEL_NO_MIME to 1 to disable file type detection. This will also disable icons.
* Set GTK_FILESEL_SIMPLE to 1 to disable all columns (Date, Size, etc.) except File. This will disable icon lookup and file type detection too. |
Enjoy.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm, thanks, I think I'll try this when I get off my butt here in a few and go eat some breakfast, ugh! 
EDIT: Are the performance penalties anything to worry about on a modern system? AMD Athlon-XP 2000+ @ 2200+, 256MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM, NVidida GeForce2 GTS.
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OddFox
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 11:40 am Post subject: |
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Oh WOW! This is awesome! Thanks x2!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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The GTK+ 2.3.1 ebuild (included with gnome-current at bmg) has these too, if anyone's interested.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| floam wrote: | | The GTK+ 2.3.1 ebuild (included with gnome-current at bmg) has these too, if anyone's interested. |
I thought GTK+ 2.3/2.4 was going to have these features either merged or implemented, and patches would be unnecessary? Oh well, either way, it'll be there.
How's the stability of GNOME-current at BMG?
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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I've installed this, but now I get errors from several applications, the error is
| Code: | | /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so: undefined reference to `gdk_threads_unlock' |
Anyone else having these? I tried to reemerge libgnomeui, but I couldn't, because the compile gives the same error. |
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symbiote
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Been running the patched ebuild for 6 hours now, no errors whatsoever.
| Code: | * gnome-base/libgnomecanvas :
[ I] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.4.0 (0) |
I didn't recompile anything else aside from the gtk ebuild I modified.
| Code: | | [ I] x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.4-r2 (2) |
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No errors whatsoever here, either, using the latest software from the portage branch and some GCC 3.3-exclusive compiler options.
Try re-emerging libgnomecanvas.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I tried, with no success. I have reverted now to gtk+-2.3.1. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| works great! But is there a way to activate menu shadow for mozilla? I thought that its toolkit XUL bases on GTK+ in Linux... |
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OddFox
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I think your problem may lie in the fact that you're not using GNOME 2.4.
Or at least it wouldn't appear that you are judging from your usage of GTK+ 2.3.1.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| OddFox wrote: | I think your problem may lie in the fact that you're not using GNOME 2.4.
Or at least it wouldn't appear that you are judging from your usage of GTK+ 2.3.1. |
Yes, I use 2.5.1 BMG. |
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symbiote
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Hehe, that's what the ebuild is for, those who want the advanced file selector and menu drop shadows without having to use the BMG 2.5.1 ebuilds (gtk+ 2.3.1/2.4).
I'm glad it's working for some, hell, changes I made were trivial anyway.
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the url appears to be broken 
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 11:50 am Post subject: |
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works for me |
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Egil.B
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What is the ip? I can't resolve it
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ping stealthdildo.net
PING stealthdildo.net (207.135.134.253) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from stealthdildo.net (207.135.134.253): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=226 ms
64 bytes from stealthdildo.net (207.135.134.253): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=225 ms
64 bytes from stealthdildo.net (207.135.134.253): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=224 ms |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| OddFox wrote: | | How's the stability of GNOME-current at BMG? |
been using it for quite a while, without any major issues since a few weeks
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| Could anybody manage a screenie? |
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ikaro
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:26 am Post subject: |
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Is this "gnome only" ?
I dont have such a "file selector"
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| ikaro wrote: | Is this "gnome only" ?
I dont have such a "file selector" |
The "file selector" is just the dialog window that you are presented with whenever a GTK+2 app wants you to, well, input a file. If the app conforms to GTK+2 standards and doesn't have it's own file selector (Very very few do) then you will have a shiny, new and improved file selector to play with whenever you're opening something.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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the file selector is the window that comes up whenever a file selection needs to be performed by a gtk2 app.
works great!
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Ive tried it and it crashes all my apps with segfauls .
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Anior wrote: | | Could anybody manage a screenie? |
looks pretty much as adverted (i stopped using the breakme flag during the 2.3 series and then it looked like that)
http://www.xfce.org/gtkmenu-shadow/
the fileselector looked like the screenie in the first link of the first post, but the newer gtk's have a new fileselector already so i don't know if the patch still applies or if the patched fileselector still works.
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