Michal Hruby is working on Sezen and one thing I noticed is that the IconView compared to Nautilus are JUST PLAIN UGLY… Look Here:
You can see the highlighted items look different in terms of “highlighting”. The selection in nautilus sets a round frame around the text as well as the icon while the standard highlighting just look like a square around the item. Our question is how do we get our IconView to look like the one from Nautilus?
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You use a custom canvas view, like the one from Nautilus.
I’m not sure why the stock IconView selection isn’t drawn that way, though. I think it also doesn’t have rubber-banding.
is sezen going to have a right click menu, to:
open the folder where the item is
remove the item from list
add source (the folder or website) to blocklist and remove item
Actually GNOME artists needs to create the icons all over again, too old and plain. No offense but they are all ugly.
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Lift the cell renderer from Nautilus..?
The IconView selection drawing is actually customizable by the active GTK+ theme. It just seems that not many theme artists seem to care. (Clearlooks, for instance, draws rounded rectangles with a soft gradient IIRC.)
Err … asking for public help for that kind of thing is quite lame actually …
Can’t you debug your own code ? I like zeitgest but makes me think the team is not very technically skilled. I mean, asking this kind of question publicly feels wrong.
@Gerald the Zeitgeist team works on the engine…
I am the only one who works on UIs
i find the darkening of icons a pain when they are thumbnails of photos. some sort of highlighed boarder would be better.
how about just reading nautilus code?
@tm its ugly
Don’t do it like Nautilus does.
I already filed a bug to fix this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615183t
@John
you don’t know what you are talking about.
Take a look into Thunar source code. It uses ListView from exo library + custom cellrenderer for text so it looks rounded. I suggest using that, you could bundle it with your app, it is just few files. Don’t know if you could do that “groups stuff” though (today, yesterday, …).
How about this. Scrap the GTKView and replace it with a Webkit GTK Container and let People come up with cool CSS styles for the List. Best 3 Styles make it to the release and everybody can Hack them as they see fit.
@Gerald, no offense, but whats the Problem with communicating Development to the Public? Hes just asking for suggestions and some people See the Learning Value in Posts like this.
@John uhhm..thats Faenza..changing the Icon Theme is supposed to help in Cases of “Arghh…Uglyness”
Hmm , i think it will be changed soon in nautilus the other way around!
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615183
So, which is hot now? ;p
@vish…
I vote for the mockup attached to the bug report. Its certainly much hotter than the current separate button-text highlighting used in nautilus. Sezen’s selection rectangle could be fixed by scaling down as its much too large for the contents (and some corner rounding wouldn’t hurt either).
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