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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

2014-06-12 00:01, Israel skrev:
> Hey everyone!
> I have been slowly working on a configuration program for JWM.
> I am currently using tinyxml2, and I'd like to use fltk for the gui.
> I currently am focusing on the panel, and have made a small terminal
> program that configures many things that are normally configured.
> As is, this would be useful (though it would need to have some error
> checking done that I have omitted for testing)... but I think it would
> be better to have a GUI program,
> so refugees from XP (and others) will be able to have an easy time of
> configuring JWM.
> 
> Once I get the basic version going, I will try to package it up so it
> can be used by anyone (through a PPA, or by downloading the deb).
> So, the reason I am e-mailing, is simple... are there any developers on
> this list that have time to help, or are familiar with FLTK.
> 
> I want to use FLTK because it is so lightweight, and fast... which is
> the Tori OS philosophy.
> 
> 
> If there are any *_'non' developers_* who *want to help*  here is your
> section:
> 
>   Do you like XML files? I would like to have some themes made up. 
> Currently my theme is based on the website, as those are the only colors
> that have been agreed on.
> We will need dark and light themes.  We will also need to eventually
> have a poll on what colors everyone likes, and thinks we should have as
> our theme.
> So, anyone interested in Art, please chime in with colors, etc..  Web
> colors (i.e. #000000) work in JWM, so do rgb, and a few words (white,
> black, red, etc..)
> So if you have a specific color please provide the rgb or hex triplet. 
> Geany is a good program to edit the config file, as it has a color chooser.
> 
> If you want to work on a theme, separate those parts of the
> configuration into a separate file (i.e. window, or panel, or icons).
> 
> We need to also have a poll about icons themes.  JWM doesn't use SVG in
> the menus... so we will need to choose a theme in PNG (or convert the
> SVG theme to PNG.. which is not hard with bash and convert).
> 
> I would like to eventually have a 'theme' manager, as well as the
> configuration manager.
> Of course a theme manager would be easier to make, as it would simply
> change something in jwm
> for example:
> <Include>$HOME/theme/defaultTheme</Include>
> <Include>$HOME/theme/AmjjawadTheme</Include>
> 
> /note: $HOME would be the users actual path//via//
> //char* home = getenv ("HOME");/
> 
> 
> 
> Once I get this program to a good usable place, I will put it up
> somewhere, either bzr or git... probably bzr since we will mainly need
> it for a PPA.
> It is currently version 0.001... so it will be a while before it is
> really where I want it to be.
> 
> But a theme manager could be pretty easy to setup fairly quickly.
> 
> 

Good work Israel :-)

Best regards
Nio