Excelsior (Engine)

A Theme Engine based on Clearlooks.

Screenshots:

#1 Aqua Widget Style
#2 BubbleGum Widget Style
#3 Clarius Widget Style
#4 Flat Widget Style http://nanolx.org/free/scrn/xcl-flat.png
#5 Inverted Widget Stylehttp://nanolx.org/free/scrn/xcl-inverted.png

ENGINE OPTIONS:

contrast = # contrast. value is a float (eg 0.82)

radius = # widget roundness. value is a float

animation = # enable animation. TRUE or FALSE

scrollbarstyle = # the scrollbar style. 0 = striped; 1 = arrowed; 2 = plain

toolbarstyle = # the style of the toolbar 0 = gummy bar; 1 = glossy bar

menubarstyle = # the style of the menubar. 0 = gummy bar; 1 = glossy bar

HINT: gummy + gummy || glossy + glossy == merged bar

random_effect = # enable or disable random effects on buttons/tabs 0 = no; 1 = stripes; 2 = bubbles

random_opacity = # The Opacity of the stripes, value is a float from 0.0 to 1.0

progbar_style = # the style of the progressbar. 0 = striped; 1 = arrowed; 2 = flat gradient;

progbar_to_left = # wether to animate the progressbar rtl (right to left) or ltr (left to right). 0 = ltr; 1 = rtl

mw_gradient = # Gradient on the MainWindow, 0 = plain; 1 = horizontal gradient; 2 = diagonal gradient

aqua_tabs = # the Style of the Tabs; 0 = excelsior 1.0+; 1 = excelsior 1.0-

style = # The Widget style; one of INVERTED - BUBBLEGUM - AQUA - FLAT - CLARIUS

pellucid_scales = # How to draw the sliders on scales; 0 = opaque; 1 = pellucid

scale_trough_size = # size of the scale-trough widget (the bar behind the "volume-slider")

tooltip_style = # The Gradient on the tooltips 0 = Straight; 1 = Curved (like before);

TIP:

You can use the Gnome-Color-Chooser to modify the Theme.

If you have Excelsior 1.5.0+ you can also change the engine-options within Gnome-Color-Chooser

INSTALLATION:

Debian Systems

sudo apt-get install fakeroot dpkg-dev
( or: su -c "apt-get install fakeroot dpkg-dev")

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

This will - if you have all deps installed - generate a debian binary package, install it via:

cd .. && sudo dpkg -i excelsior*.deb
(or: cd .. && su -c "dpkg -i excelsior*.deb")

If you have built a package for SID, send it to me, so that I can provide it here
(I'm using GTK 2.15 and PANGO 1.24 at the moment, so I can't provide a Package now)

Non-Debian Systems

./configure --prefix=/usr

make

su -c "make install" / sudo make install

Perhaps you'll like it, too.

Comments welcome.

4.1.0:

[GENERAL]

- improved configure.ac
- new autogen.sh (taken from sawfish)
- removed 9 unused variables
- fixed 2 implicit declarations
- updated debian/control description
- use single gtk/glib includes

[SCALE_TROUGH]

- don't substract 2 from scale_trough_size
- fixed scale_trough right border
- set fallback value for scale_trough_size to 5

[HANDLES]

- draw less grips on handles (4*2 if on toolbar, else 8*2)

[SCHEMA]

- added CLARIUS and FLAT to style-list

[THEMES]

- added scale_trough_size = 5 to all themes
- turn on random effects on all themes