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Subscription date : 17 November 2008
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Hi all, I'm an old user of cairo dock, and maybe someone could remember me from Shiki-Colors theme. After one years of gnome-do docky envyronment I do back to ur application for release a new theme (I'm working on it and I hope that u will appreciate my work ). Since the bar uses a lot of things have been improved and many others have been added without a real test of compatibility with the desktop manager, I think, in fact, that from the configuration menu, the dock is increasingly distant from the world of Gnome or KDE . The menu is scattered over a bowl of soup, millions of options that cancel each other!
Anyway I will prepare a mockup of the configuration page that is really horrible, have you made the transparency but then there are trivial problems with the rendering of fonts. On these damn font I want to know if you have any ideas on how to improve readability. If you need a screenshot of the font I can do it.
Stay connect for Cairo-Humanity theme. |
Subscription date : 17 November 2008
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I forgot, when I talk about my desktop integration peak is represented by Docky. |
matttbe, Saturday 14 November 2009 à 17:00
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Subscription date : 26 October 2008
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We are looking as well for new icons for the menu.. |
Subscription date : 17 November 2008
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here u can see the fonts issue:
link: http://img262.imageshack.us/i/fontspl.png/
I'm preparing a mookup of the config interface.
PS: why the thumbnail don't work?! :S |
Subscription date : 26 October 2008
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Cause you're using html link instead of bbcode link.
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fabounet, Monday 16 November 2009 à 14:25
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Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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If you know how to get the system font, I'm ok to use it as default
also, did you do your tests with the cairo backend or the OpenGL one ? I find OpenGL less accurate than cairo. |
matttbe, Monday 16 November 2009 à 15:00
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Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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If you know how to get the system font, I'm ok to use it as default On Gnome with Gconf, it's easy but on other DE
PS : if Gnome-Do offers less possibilities (only default font, less views, etc.) it's normal that there are less bugs... |
fabounet, Monday 16 November 2009 à 15:13
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Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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indeed, but we can't use such an argument to justify ours |
Subscription date : 17 November 2008
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If you know how to get the system font, I'm ok to use it as default
I'm not a developer, sorry
PS : if Gnome-Do offers less possibilities (only default font, less views, etc.) it's normal that there are less bugs...
There is a proposal for integrating OpenGL in Docky2. Sure but we really need all that options? I don't think =)
I think that the first problem is the fonts rendering in your application, and don't forget that I do not want to criticize, but offer a way to improve the application. I am a fan of Cairo-Dock but there is a shadow of a new application on your work, and if they integrate OpenGL in docky we see little hope of cairo-dock on many PCs.
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fabounet, Wednesday 18 November 2009 à 12:16
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Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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we are 1 year in front of them, so ne need to worry too much
plus, the only advantage of Docky was to be integrated in Gnome-Do, which is over.
anyway, about the font rendering, I've found the way to get the default font under Gnome, but not under the other DE :/
so what I could do is to add a check button to say wether to use the default font, or the custom one.
about blur, do yo unotice it with the cairo backend ?
also (I don't remember), are you on the latest version ? I've made a little change on the labels, so that they get display on an exact pixel (to avoid blur) |
Subscription date : 17 November 2008
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Are now on version one week, you're right fonts are best seen with the engine Cairo. On the new version as you yourself have said are a bit more readable with OpenGL. I also think that in view slide labels should be under the icon and with a font smaller than that used in the icons of the toolbar. Often the text goes off the edge and a AutoCut could be ideal. |
fabounet, Thursday 19 November 2009 à 17:35
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Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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thanks for testing the latest version
I've noticed that the OpenGL rendering is always less perfect than the cairo one, maybe it is due to poor quality drivers, I don't know exactly.
So do you consider it satisfying or not yet ? |
Subscription date : 17 November 2008
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Sure fabounet, but I think that we need that option for use default font in gnome, or better the normal font + one unit (expample my fonts are at 8, on cairo-dock 8+4). I have another question I can redraw the panel of options, summarized and above using the icons using the desktop environment? |
fabounet, Friday 20 November 2009 à 12:19
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Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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sorry I didn't understand the question
the desktop environment is automatically detected by the dock (at least, it should detect it) |
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