Wow.... This was fast! Cool! I can't build Shell either, it fails at a point something to do with Vala. The package from the repos is months old, I think Shell changed a lot since then... Will keep trying.
Fab # Fabian A. Scherschel # Host & Producer, Sixgun Productions # Member, Fedora Design Team On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Jef van Schendel <[email protected]>wrote: > 2010/8/4 Emily Dirsh <[email protected]>: > > Thanks Jef! I haven't contacted anyone else about it. Although I would > > love to share it with the gnome-shell team (probably the design team). > > Liam and I just threw it together last night, and it's pretty rough > > right now, so I thought I'd share it here and see if I could get it > > tested a bit more. ;) (Honestly, I could see it as the basis of a theme > > switcher/selector extension, but that's too ambitious for me atm :)) > > > > I've had trouble building gnome-shell lately as well. Have you tried > > installing the gnome-shell package? I found out last night that there is > > a package for it in the repos. I'm not sure how recent it is, but it > > should be fine for theme testing. > > The last time I tried was a long while back... I think I used the > package from the repos. I'm on Ubuntu right now, so I hope the > packages in the nightly PPA will work soon. > > But you're right, an older version will probably be fine for theming. > I'll try that next and let you know how it goes! > > > When I get a chance, I'll definitely get in touch with the gnome-shell > > team, because I also think we should help with documenting the > > gnome-shell theming process. We really need documentation on available > > selectors, and what parts of the shell they correspond with; as well as > > the non-standard css styles the shell supports. You can figure a good > > bit of it out between the included css file and plain trial and error, > > but let's only have to do that once ;) > > Definitely. Most themes I've seen use a single color for half of the > shell and gradients for the other half. I thought that was the extent > of theming possibilities, but then I saw this: > > > http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/214/3/7/GNOME_Shell___Ambiance_Theme_by_half_left.png > > Regardless of whether it looks good or not, it fits really really well > with Ubuntu's theme and proves that there are more possibilities. I > think that's really good news for us. :) > > Jef > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team >
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