Re: "dome" theme for metacity

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

You'll want to discuss this with Metacity developers outside of the
gnome-themes list. I do not believe it can support this currently,
and so will probably require ample hacking to get it working.

-- dobey

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 09:39 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> Each time I do a major upgrade (FC4 in this case) I find that support
> for the "dome" themes that I find so satisfying grows smaller and
> smaller.  First it was the demise of Sawfish (where I used smalldome
> and moondome themes) and then xfce upgraded losing the b5 theme in the
> process so that today I have no readily available "dome" themes
> available.  Woe is me. :-) But this is an itch that must be scratched.
> So I am going to bite the bullet and create a metacity theme with a
> "dome" feature, a titlebar/window controls decoration that uses only
> as much real estate as is absolutely necessary.  I would also like to
> add the ability to place the control on the frame, perhaps left, right
> or centered.  The question I have for this list is first and foremost,
> whether this kind of theme is even possible with metacity.  If so,
> I'll take any pointers that someone might care to offer up before I
> plunge in and start hacking.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -pmr