2014-06-12 00:01, Israel skrev: > Hey everyone! > I have been slowly working on a configuration program for JWM. > I am currently using tinyxml2, and I'd like to use fltk for the gui. > I currently am focusing on the panel, and have made a small terminal > program that configures many things that are normally configured. > As is, this would be useful (though it would need to have some error > checking done that I have omitted for testing)... but I think it would > be better to have a GUI program, > so refugees from XP (and others) will be able to have an easy time of > configuring JWM. > > Once I get the basic version going, I will try to package it up so it > can be used by anyone (through a PPA, or by downloading the deb). > So, the reason I am e-mailing, is simple... are there any developers on > this list that have time to help, or are familiar with FLTK. > > I want to use FLTK because it is so lightweight, and fast... which is > the Tori OS philosophy. > > > If there are any *_'non' developers_* who *want to help* here is your > section: > > Do you like XML files? I would like to have some themes made up. > Currently my theme is based on the website, as those are the only colors > that have been agreed on. > We will need dark and light themes. We will also need to eventually > have a poll on what colors everyone likes, and thinks we should have as > our theme. > So, anyone interested in Art, please chime in with colors, etc.. Web > colors (i.e. #000000) work in JWM, so do rgb, and a few words (white, > black, red, etc..) > So if you have a specific color please provide the rgb or hex triplet. > Geany is a good program to edit the config file, as it has a color chooser. > > If you want to work on a theme, separate those parts of the > configuration into a separate file (i.e. window, or panel, or icons). > > We need to also have a poll about icons themes. JWM doesn't use SVG in > the menus... so we will need to choose a theme in PNG (or convert the > SVG theme to PNG.. which is not hard with bash and convert). > > I would like to eventually have a 'theme' manager, as well as the > configuration manager. > Of course a theme manager would be easier to make, as it would simply > change something in jwm > for example: > <Include>$HOME/theme/defaultTheme</Include> > <Include>$HOME/theme/AmjjawadTheme</Include> > > /note: $HOME would be the users actual path//via// > //char* home = getenv ("HOME");/ > > > > Once I get this program to a good usable place, I will put it up > somewhere, either bzr or git... probably bzr since we will mainly need > it for a PPA. > It is currently version 0.001... so it will be a while before it is > really where I want it to be. > > But a theme manager could be pretty easy to setup fairly quickly. > >
Good work Israel :-) Best regards Nio -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp