I've just started to play with WinCVS, thanks to cdn. I have managed to upload a screenshot thumbnail, so in the future, I'll probably be able to upload (and host) both theme jars and screenshots for all themes.
As of 02/07 Classic is no longer a choice in the themes preference, it has been replaced with Phoenix.
Nice way to keep the name Phoenix somewhere in the application.
Now if only Phoenix would get updated, since Qute is a bit ahead of Phoenix as we speak (Qute 1.0 has skinned options for everything except general/connections, and has the new stop/delete buttons).
I guess maybe it will get updated whenever 0.6 comes out.
On Linux the hover for the back and forward menubuttons isn't quite right. I don't have a windows machine right now so I can't check there. I compared the latest Phoenix theme with Luna Blue and Luna Blue seems to get the hover state looking better than Phoenix/Qute.
The problem I see is that the menu part of the button, the dropdown arrow part, seems to wrap all the way around the back button part.
There are definitely problems with the hover state of the drop-down arrow buttons. They work perfectly on WinXP with the Luna theme, but with the Classic theme the buttons don't have a hover state at all.
On Red Hat 8, as Asa pointed out, there is an additional border around the actual back button. Looks kinda funny.
Anyway, the Luna Blue theme does not use native toolbar hover states, I think. It's designed to emulate the XP Luna hover state on all systems. I don't know if that's the way to go.
djst wrote:There are definitely problems with the hover state of the drop-down arrow buttons. They work perfectly on WinXP with the Luna theme, but with the Classic theme the buttons don't have a hover state at all.
On Red Hat 8, as Asa pointed out, there is an additional border around the actual back button. Looks kinda funny.
Anyway, the Luna Blue theme does not use native toolbar hover states, I think. It's designed to emulate the XP Luna hover state on all systems. I don't know if that's the way to go.
This is correct. Luna Blue uses non-native styles to get the widgets to look the same regardless of OS theme. The luna theme style will get you closer, and looks good in non WinXP themes though it isn't quite perfect (i.e. exactly the same) in the WinXP OS theme.
If Arvid would like some input I would be happy to give it.
asa wrote:On Linux the hover for the back and forward menubuttons isn't quite right. I don't have a windows machine right now so I can't check there. I compared the latest Phoenix theme with Luna Blue and Luna Blue seems to get the hover state looking better than Phoenix/Qute.
The problem I see is that the menu part of the button, the dropdown arrow part, seems to wrap all the way around the back button part.
Does anyone else see this? Can someone that knows themes look at the CSS Luna Blue is using and see if it is applicable to Phoenix/Qute?
--Asa
Asa,
Can you verify that this behavior was not due to hot-switching themes? Restart the browser and see if you still the double boxes. I only see the box for the inner button but not the dropdown as does MoNkaholic apparently.
djst wrote:I still don't understand why Ben didn't rename it to Default instead of Phoenix, when he knows the name will soon change?
In my initial post about that I thought it may have something to do with keeping the name Phoenix somewhere within the application, for the memories... that of course is merely my own assumption.
djst wrote:I still don't understand why Ben didn't rename it to Default instead of Phoenix, when he knows the name will soon change?
In my initial post about that I thought it may have something to do with keeping the name Phoenix somewhere within the application, for the memories... that of course is merely my own assumption.
Yet in the checkin comments, he said "changing to Phoenix [...] for now"
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