Please send patches, by all means. (btw, glad to welcome a fellow Naija man to the E team!)
> Hiya, > > Gotten a bit freetime on my hands lately, and been trying to do > something with it. > > Entrance has a TODO item, which mentions spliting out the Background > Edje from the Main theme edje and i've started working on it. > I just want to confirm no one else is working on it so we don't > duplicate effort (and if there is, we can collaborate on that). > > Currently, I have it working on my box. I split out the background from > the data/themes/default.edc into a data/themes/background.edc, then i > created a new background_edje for the main evas canvas, that loads this > background, before going ahead to load the default theme (which is now > transparent). > > In the background theme, i set the part to be loaded to > 'entrance/background' taking a cue from E that looks for > 'desktop/background'. > > There are some things remaining before it is properly done. > > 1. Background choosing scheme priorities: > First: User Specified At command line (-b option) > Second: Previously configured background-theme from session->config > Third: E-theme supplied (so the theme can specify an Entrance > background) > Fourth: The default background theme that comes with Entrance itself. > > 2. Easy configuration of this (and probably other aspects of Entrance). > I've actually been thinking it would be nice for a Entrance Config to > look and feel like the rest of E's configs, so i was thinking of an > Entrance configuration module, but doing that would make entrance > dependent on E, and users may not be able to mix and match > Entrance/GNOME or Entrance/Fluxbox without installing E as well. Any > ideas here? > > Anyways, i think that the background themeing can be done without a UI > config _ATM_. > > Also, do i begin to send in my patches so far? Or do i wait to have the > full picture before i send the patch? I know _big_ patches are not > really liked by anyone. > > Finally... any ideas? > > Cheers, > Essien > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
