Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Suggestions

["Christophe Dehais" <christophe dehais gmail com>]

Is this boiling down to: new widget for Rhythmbox should be in a way
acceptable for the Gtk core, as far as UI design is concerned ?
(obviously they would probably fall in a "too specialized" category in
the first place)

I'm asking this because I did some experiments regarding an enhanced
hscale for the playing position, and when doing such a widget, you
often start doing all the graphics yourself without thinking about
theming (that is to say not using the virtual functions defined in a
GtkStyle). Even more when you're trying to mimick an Inkscape mockup,
which I do.
The risk of this approach is that the design can become driven by the
eye-candyness, which is surely not a very good idea, but for me it's
more like "thinking graphically".

Christophe


On 9/4/06, Alex Lancaster <alexl users sourceforge net> wrote:
> >>>>> "CD" == Christophe Dehais  writes:
>
> CD> What could be possible is to ship a Gtk rc style file with
> CD> Rhythmbox, so that it has its special look that doesn't affect the
> CD> rest of the desktop. Maybe shipping a custom gtk theme engine
> CD> would even be possible. But indeed all this would break the
> CD> desktop-neutrality rule (beside being a lot of work and maybe a
> CD> bug attractor).
>
> CD> By the way, is that written in the stone ? I'm starting to think
> CD> that RB would benefit from custom widgets with more eye-candy
> CD> (e.g. an enhanced album art widget, a more powerful slider for the
> CD> current play position, a custom panel for docking various UI
> CD> elements...). Some can be made of standard widgets (maybe styled
> CD> by a rc file).
>
> New features which involve new widgets which could be called
> "eye-candy" are different in my opinion than "skins".  Skins by
> definition would override the current GNOME theme (e.g. fonts/control
> style/window decorations).  New features such as album art
> browser/chooser would provide more functionality but should always
> blend in (more or less) and use the current theme (font/widget
> style/window style).
>
> So, I imagine that the RB developers (of which I'm not) would be fine
> with "eye-candy" (defined above) would be fine, but "skins" (a la
> xmms), probably not.
>
> Alex
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