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- gtk-engines
- ===========
-
- gtk-engines provides a central location for commonly used GTK+ engines.
-
- It currently supplies several engines and default themes for those which have one.
-
- Clearlooks
- The clearlooks engine was originally written by Richard Stellingwerff and
- Daniel Borgmann based on the Bluecurve engine. It became very popular and
- was adopted as the default theme in GNOME 2.12.
- Since then a lot of people have worked on it, and today it is a modular
- engine providing multiple styles such as glossy and gummy.
- There are some popular forks out there, the largest is probably the
- UbuntuLooks engine currently used for the default Ubuntu theme.
-
- Crux
- The engine created for the once popular theme by Eazel, Inc. Unfortunately
- long without maintenance it is no longer as popular or considered as
- usable as it once was.
- It has been rewritten by Thomas Wood and now provides a more modern style
- featuring the Tango colors.
-
- Glide
- A new engine written by Andrew Johnson for the Glider theme.
-
- HC
- The High Contrast engine which is targeted for usability themes, such as
- the GNOME HighContrast theme.
-
- Industrial
- Originally developed by Ximian, Inc. as the default engine for its desktop.
- Industrial provides a simple and consistent appearance for applications.
-
- LUA
- The LUA engine is an experimental engine that loads lua scripts to draw
- the interface. Because of its experimental status the engine is not
- compiled by default.
-
- Mist
- A minimalist engine designed to provide a simple UI experience.
-
- Redmond
- An engine and theme designed to mimic the appearance of another well
- known OS.
-
- Thinice
- A once highly popular engine with thin edges and theme of Icy Colors,
- providing a simple mostly clean appearance many find satisfying.
-
-
- Requirements
- ============
-
- To compile this package, you must have:
-
- GTK+, version 2.12.0 or later
-
- http://www.gtk.org/
- ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/
-
-
- Sources
- =======
-
- The source code of gtk-engines is available from:
- http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-engines/
-
- The development version is available from gtk-engines module of the GNOME
- subversion repository:
- http://svn.gnome.org
-
-
- Bugs
- ====
-
- GTK+ engines are a vital part of the desktop and should be very stable. A
- bug in the engine can easily cause random application crashes and users may
- lose work.
-
- Because of this gtk-engines has a test suite which torture tests the engines
- and checks for some other issues. While we strive to create very stable
- software, bugs do crop up regularly. Should you find any problem, whether it is
- a visual or a more serious issue please fill them in the GNOME bugzilla in the
- gtk-engines product.
-
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk-engines
-
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- ./configure
- make
- [ become root ]
- make install
-
-
- If you configured GTK+ in a non-default prefix, you should configure this
- package the same way. For instance:
-
- ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk+
-
- If you need to install this package in a different prefix from GTK+, then
- you'll have to set your GTK_PATH environment variable to point to the
- installed prefix. For instance, if this package was configured with:
-
- ./configure --prefix=/home/john.doe/gtk-engines/
-
- Then you'd set:
-
- GTK_PATH=/home/john.doe/gtk-engines/lib/gtk-2.0/
- export GTK_PATH
-
- This will allow GTK+ to find the newly installed theme engines. To use the
- default themes (installed into $prefix/share/themes), you'll need to copy or
- link them into your ~/.themes directory.
-
- If you need to skip an engine/theme configure with --disable-<engine>. A
- --disable-all option is included so that it is possible to enable building
- of engines selectively with --enable-<engine>.
-
-
- ====
- Andrew Johnson <ajgenius@ajgenius.us>
- Benjamin Berg <benjamin@sipsolutions.net>
- Thomas Wood <thos@gnome.org>
-