Hello, Where is the package of serenity?
Il giorno dom, 29/03/2009 alle 17.13 -0400, Joel Newkirk ha scritto: > I know it's been a few weeks since I said I was going to try to get > this out, I apologize. > > I've released what is essentially an alpha test for the Serenity > theme, therefore named serenity-0.2. It's incomplete, and may be broken > in some ways I've not seen yet. Comments/criticisms/advice on > structural and functional aspects are welcome, those on visual style > should be limited to points of inconsistency with the rest of the theme > or problems like scaling. (specifically, if you don't like the look of > the theme that's fine, but don't bother with comments like "I don't like > dark themes" or what-not - the point is to present the theme to those > interested, and hopefully discuss improvements/fixes, not take a poll > of the appeal) > > Note that this is just an Illume/Enlightenment theme, NOT Elementary or > any specific apps. (like Paroli, Zhone, SHR phonegui-efl) I'm working > on those as well, however. > > I use it currently with SHR-unstable and FSO-MS5.1. You can download > it from http://newkirk.us/om/serenity-0.2.tar.gz and extract - it opens > to a folder named serenity, which > contains usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes/serenity.edj > and usr/share/enlightenment/data/config/serenity folder holding a few > files. Copy themes/serenity.edj and the config/serenity folder > to /usr/share/enlightement, then you can select it in Illume Settings > under Look->Theme, select 'System' at the top-left to see themes > installed globally. (/usr/share/...) NOTE: Wallpaper and Theme, at > least, may segfault if you are using Software_16 rendering. > > Once I'm satisfied that it doesn't break anything, and all the > main elements are rethemed, I'll release it as an ipk. (of course, at > any time if someone wants to they can extract the serenity.edj file and > have their way with it - anyone who wants to enhance or alter it > in any way is free to do so, so long as 'simple' alterations like > changing some images files retain a credit that the new theme is "based > on Serenity by Joel Newkirk" - 'major alterations' or extraction of some > portion of Serenity to use in another theme is fine without attribution) > > > > What I'm doing: > > Start with Illume and default themes (anything not defined in illume.edj > will 'fall through' to default.edj, like battery and clock) basically > renaming illume as serenity, and merge more groups up from default > (battery, clock, desktop icon, etc) then work to simplify the > structure (graphically and visually - most significantly, making icons > two images instead of about eight images each) and shift toward the > desired visual appearance. > > Ordinary buttons are translucent white, though on the black default > background they appear grey. Selected/pressed buttons are an > 'openmoko-orange' tinted rendition of the same translucent button > image. Icons are just icon image at rest, are translucent white when > highlighted by keyboard or mouseover (IE dragging on FR) and > translucent orange when clicked/tapped. > > Battery applet is the green one from Illume, but narrower. Tapping it > displays the battery percentage and time overlay. GSM applet is the > same as Illume but colorized red/yellow/green based on signal quality, > with carrier name above signal. Clock applet is more heavily > altered, displaying digital time with date below it. Keyboard has been > visually/structurally simplified - removing two transparent overlays > from each key - resulting in (for me at least) significantly faster > keyboard response. (and About:Theme is reworked, though you can only > see it if you enable the 'Start' Top Shelf Gadget, then select > Enlightenment->Theme from the menu - the animation there is one I've > used for splash and busy screens as well, but the FR doesn't seem to > have sufficient horsepower to do that without noticeably slowing load > times, so I axed them - eventually I may end up with a 'pretty' and a > 'functional' version of the theme) > > Still to do: Several components (like keyboard suggestion popup, > tasklist) are still black-text-on-grey-gradient, will be changing to > light-on-black. Some visual elements (like left-right arrows on top > bar) are still IMHO pretty ugly with software_16, which I hope to fix. > > I'm hoping within a couple weeks or so to have finished at least the > structural/composition changes, resulting in a leaner and faster theme > that can easily have any/all images altered to result in a completely > different yet still leaner/faster theme. > > I've also worked on theming Elementary, Zhone, and SHR's telephony > GUIs, (just looked at Paroli so far) but haven't yet seen any way to do > so without overwriting the original files - which of course is a no-no, > being subject to reversion whenever the package owning them is > updated. (Can anyone tell me a 'right' way to override them? Does it > require rewritten apps that explicitly support theme selection or > something?) > > For those unaware, a .edj file is essentially an archive containing one > or more .edc (text) files that define the theme, any number of lossy or > lossless compressed images, fonts, and a script to recreate the .edj > file after extracting and altering it. So it's possible to extract an > edje file (with edje_decc) and simply replace the image files for, say, > the GSM applet, then recompress the theme and run with it. > > > > In order to get a more responsive 'desktop' it's helpful to: > > Set Application, Top Shelf, Keyboard, and Status Animation Off (under > Illume Settings: Display->Animation) - Play with the settings and see > what suits you, I ended up with Top Shelf set to Very Fast and > everything else off. These animations don't take much processing > power, but the wait while the opening/closing is animated can 'feel' > slow, especially if heavy CPU usage causes it to pull back to only a > couple frames between the two states. > > Set Software_16 rendering instead of Software (under Illume Settings: > Advanced->Engine) - As noted many times before, display is faster > and more responsive, but some graphics look blotchy or jagged with > software_16. One of the goals of Serenity is circumventing this, such > as trying to ensure that any imagery (e.g. Top Shelf background) either > stretches only monochrome portions, or doesn't get stretched at all. > Hopefully this will change at some point - Software_16 visual > improvements, Software speed improvements, or maybe upcoming changes to > xglamo support offering compositing. > > "killall -HUP enlightenment" - this or some other method (like > move/restore a .desktop file from /usr/share/applications) that forces > enlightenment/illume to refresh the desktop display once after booting > has been documented to reduce E's CPU usage dramatically, such as from > 25% to 3%... Presumably the root cause of this will at some point be > fixed upstream and this will no longer have any effect, nor be needed. > Create a .desktop file with "Exec=killall -HUP enlightenment", mine is > named 'relite' (as is the console script that does the same) > > j > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Biagio Marino <ilcristopag...@gmail.com>
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