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Adwaita, Unico, and Solidity theming engines on windows?

Added by John Smith almost 12 years ago

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could compile the gtk3 Adwaita, Unico, and Solidity theming engines into the Windows binary distribution? I have looked up and down but couldn't find any windows binaries of them anywhere.

Thanks and kudos for this great audio player!


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RE: Adwaita, Unico, and Solidity theming engines on windows? - Added by John Smith almost 12 years ago

Why not? I don't think it represents technical difficulties for you and would increase the size of the thing by only a few hundred kb.

Anyway it's up to you and if you do not want to do it, well, fine with me.

The thing is, however, that it would increase the amount of fully useable gtk3 themes for us Windows users.

For now I use the Zukitwo theme which I am happy with as it's way fancier than the default interface which is frankly atrocious. I have placed it under share\themes and edited the etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini to read:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Zukitwo
gtk-font-name = Tahoma 8

And the application now looks like this:

Instead of that:

At any rate I suggest you at least bundle a decent gtk3 theme and make it the default look of the windows distribution so it doesn't put off people who try it for the first time.

And, someone's gotta have to compile those theming engines for Windows sometimes so why not you since you're one of the only gtk3 apps available for windows as of now?

All the best.

RE: Adwaita, Unico, and Solidity theming engines on windows? - Added by John Lindgren almost 12 years ago

GTK3 mimics the default Aero theme in Vista/7 (and Aqua in XP) fairly well. If you revert to a Win95 theme, then GTK3 will use its fallback theme instead. If you think the fallback theme can be improved (I agree, by the way), then I suggest you talk to the GTK3 developers.

As far as "putting people off", I frankly don't care. I am already applying multiple patches to GTK3 and Cairo to make them even work on Windows. I am not going to spend my time making them look good while the upstream developers hardly even care about making them functional.

RE: Adwaita, Unico, and Solidity theming engines on windows? - Added by John Smith almost 12 years ago

Well I have been looking a bit more and it seems the themes requiring those engines are all gtk3.4 and as Audacious appears to use gtk3.6 I now realize my initial request did not make much sense.

I am now using the Clearlooks-Phenix theme found here: http://www.jpfleury.net/en/software/clearlooks-phenix.php and it's perfect, I couldn't be happier with it, my quest on that front seems to be over.

Btw, when I search the library for some name, it only finds albums or artists but not song titles, is that normal?

Cheers!

RE: Adwaita, Unico, and Solidity theming engines on windows? - Added by John Lindgren almost 12 years ago

It does search song titles but if there are too many matches (the limit was set to 12; I have increased it to 100) it will not display them until you refine the search further.

RE: Adwaita, Unico, and Solidity theming engines on windows? - Added by John Smith almost 12 years ago

OK I have been playing a bit more with the search and I can indeed fing song titles however I don't think what it does is is too good.

I have searched for "strange lights". In my library there are only one album and two songs titles matching that. It found them allright but it also listed in the results all songs from the matching album even though only one of them had a title matching the search. Song titles that do not match the search should not appear in the results IMO.

Something else I noticed and that is bad is m3u playlist export. It reads file paths in m3u made by other software allright but saves them in a format that isn't understood by any other player.

For example:

D:/Tagged Music/Adrian Shaw/Displaced Person/02 - The Only One.mp3

becomes

file:///D%3A/Tagged%20Music/Adrian%20Shaw/Displaced%20Person/02%20-%20The%20Only%20One.mp3

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