On 9/5/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
Hello everyone,
As of revision 16000 (yes I like round numbers, I think I also did
commit number 15000!), development versions of Inkscape have a
default GTK theme on OS X (no more of these ugly dark grey windows!)
It is probably impossible for GTK to reproduce Aqua exactly, hence
the theme does not aim at being an Aqua clone as other themes tried
(and in my opinion, did not succeed). It rather tries to "fit"
correctly with the rest of the interface. The theme is based on
Clearlooks-Quicksilver which already features light gray colors, menu
and text highlights and a smooth 3D feel. Further improvements were
added such as:
- aqua scroll-bars
- Lucida Grande font
- highlight and scroll-bars colors that use Mac OS X Appearance
settings (aqua vs graphite, or blue vs grey vs graphite vs...).
However you need to restart Inkscape for colors to change after you
changed them in OS X preferences.
Just a note (as I was on my way to ask this myself): My OSX is set to use Graphite (under "System Preferences" -> "Appearance"), but when I ran Inkscape before putting it into the "Applications" folder I got a "blue with orange highlights" theme (I already had Graphite set before running Inkscape), only after 'installing' it into "Applications" that the correct theme was selected.
BTW: these new themes are *awesome*, especially for my dirty-ugly-gray sore eyes, thanks immensely. And yes, it is incredibly amazingly utterly much more better than before (even though this phrase contains a few errors, that is just how much better it is!).
Cheers indeed!
In addition, Inkscape won't override the local theme preferences you
may have in a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (so if you want to see the theme in
Inkscape, temporarily move this file somewhere else).
Some screenshots:
- With OS X blue and blue highlights (OS X default)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue.png
- With OS X blue and orange highlights (subtle changes)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue_orange.png
- With OS X graphite and silver highlights (my personal favorite)
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_graphite.png
- And the old look, just to compare
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_old_look.png
There is probably room for improvement: the scroll-bars tips are not
perfect, the text and background highlight colors can be
differentiated (as in OS X), the icons are still gnome defaults and
so on and so forth... but well I hope that this is at least better
than before.
NB: there is a devel build, on modevia, for you to test this out:
http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D
sorry, only for Intel... the direct link is
http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16002-i386.dmg
Cheers,
JiHO
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