I'd like to respond separately to the mockup and the library:
For the mockup:
1. I like the look but I see no "compact menu". Is it the star button?
(A bad sign, since my friends and family members never found Unity's
global menubar until I taught them.)
2. If an application truly needs no menu bar or only one menu, like
Firefox and Chrome, I like that... but I run LXDE specifically to AVOID
Unity (KDE is too slow, Xfce is too crippled) so I'd be very cautious here.
For the library:
1. It's a nice idea, given how much work it can be to make and reuse
custom widgets and theming elements outside the browser.
2. As a programmer, I'd probably never use it, since I try to always
write my apps to be easily portable... and that often means written in
Python and supporting the Windows+PyGTK (GTK 2.x) combination.
3. As a user, I do tend to specifically avoid apps that depend on
XFWhatever libraries. Regardless of whether it's accurate, there's too
much of a perception that such libraries imply apps that are part of a
tightly-coupled, heavy desktop.
In short, both have potential, but you're playing with fire in both cases.
On 12-08-24 01:37 PM, Stephen Smally wrote:
> Hi everybody, some time ago 神癒礁湖 (Rafaellaguna) sent me a mockup of
> the future light-software-center, and he told me that he and Alex
> (another lubuntu designer) were working on standard widgets for lubuntu
> applications ("Even Alex is working on the standards, we should make a
> common interface for everything, like the compact menus, as a standard
> for any Lubuntu app."). The mockup is the following
> http://imagebin.org/225735 (as you can see, it contains a brand new
> About Dialog, a pathbar and a compact menu).
>
> So my question (and proposal) is: Is a standard lxde widgets library a
> good thing?
> I personally don't like when a gtk app require another library for
> widgets (such as libxfce4ui), because it looks to me like an added
> weight. However, i started appreciating this with the granite library
> (used for elementary os widgets), and i started thinking about a lxde
> library seriously (i called it liblxui, but i don't like the name a lot).
> In my plan, the library should be:
> * Written with Vala (simple development + C and vala api) and Gtk3
> * Themed within Box (or whatever) via css, using another Gtk theme the
> widgets won't look strange.
> * Lightweight, of course, just few widgets (about 5 or 6), no Services
> or patches as in granite
>
> I included the lxde list, even if this is thinked primarily for Lubuntu,
> id obviously strongly lxde-related.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Stephen Smally
>
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