[ubuntu-art] State of the CSS engine (was: Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 41, Issue 11)

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:47 -0500, John Baer wrote:

> Great idea! Is this engine available in ubuntu and how does it stack up
> again Murrine or Clearlooks ...

As it is in early development, I would be surprised to see it packaged.


Info directly from the author, Robert Staudinger, robsta in
#ubuntu-artwork:

Murrine and Clearlooks are mature theme engines, gce is an experiment.

It will probably take a few more months to reach beta quality, or more
if he can't invest so much time anymore at some point.

gce is completely unoptimised, if you use lots of pixmaps performance
will be bad

Around v0.5 he'll start to look into optimisations.

He's really just looking to get one or two themes done now, to get
testing and feedback. The engine is not for public consumption yet.

http://www.gnome.org/~robsta/gtk-css-engine/info.html


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