[opensuse-factory] New xfce look coming to Tumbleweed
Hello! I'd like to share with you all that xfce will have a new default look soon in Tumbleweed, for new installations. Here below is a recap of the changes: * GTK theme: Mint-Y-Darker-Teal (modern look that uses teal as highlight, matching openSUSE color schemes) * xfwm4 theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal * icon theme: elementary-xfce (inspired by Tango and Elementary) * Font: Noto Sans has a wide support for different languages, including Asian languages and emojis making it a good default. * Font: Hack is cool and one of the most complete monospace fonts around * Font: Hint Slight is usually considered a better default for hinting * Font: Added "rgb" value, recommended setting for LCD screens (if font looks like a "rainbow" you need to enable lcd filter in Yast > Font module) Please note that these changes will only affect new installations of TW with xfce and only if xfce4-branding-openSUSE sub-packages are installed. Existing users should not be affected by this. Preview here: https://imgur.com/a/le5Dred -- Maurizio Galli (MauG) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Moin, On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 01:36:12 +0100, Maurizio Galli (MauG) wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share with you all that xfce will have a new default look soon in Tumbleweed, for new installations. Here below is a recap of the changes:
* GTK theme: Mint-Y-Darker-Teal (modern look that uses teal as highlight, matching openSUSE color schemes) * xfwm4 theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal * icon theme: elementary-xfce (inspired by Tango and Elementary) * Font: Noto Sans has a wide support for different languages, including Asian languages and emojis making it a good default. * Font: Hack is cool and one of the most complete monospace fonts around * Font: Hint Slight is usually considered a better default for hinting * Font: Added "rgb" value, recommended setting for LCD screens (if font looks like a "rainbow" you need to enable lcd filter in Yast > Font module)
Please note that these changes will only affect new installations of TW with xfce and only if xfce4-branding-openSUSE sub-packages are installed. Existing users should not be affected by this.
Unfortunately, they are! Apologies when I'm talking about X11:xfce here, but I believe it to be the development base for XFCE... so, if anyone knows a better/more appropriate place to discuss this than here, please advise. When I installed the various *branding* packages yesterday, after the next login my base panel was almost completely destroyed. The "Workspace Switcher" was gone, the same happened to the "Notification Area". Instead I got a new xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin and battery status which I definitely did not have before (and never needed them). What's worse is that the order of the elements in the panel got screwed up, too. I had to manually fix all user accounts of all long time XFCE users here. This doesn't actually sound to me like your change wouldn't have an effect on "existing users". How/where should issues like this be dealt with? ML, boo, ???
Preview here: https://imgur.com/a/le5Dred
-- Maurizio Galli (MauG)
Cheers. l8er manfred
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 16:48:18 +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
[...] On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 01:36:12 +0100, Maurizio Galli (MauG) wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share with you all that xfce will have a new default look soon in Tumbleweed, for new installations. Here below is a recap of the changes:
* GTK theme: Mint-Y-Darker-Teal (modern look that uses teal as highlight, matching openSUSE color schemes) * xfwm4 theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal * icon theme: elementary-xfce (inspired by Tango and Elementary) * Font: Noto Sans has a wide support for different languages, including Asian languages and emojis making it a good default. * Font: Hack is cool and one of the most complete monospace fonts around * Font: Hint Slight is usually considered a better default for hinting * Font: Added "rgb" value, recommended setting for LCD screens (if font looks like a "rainbow" you need to enable lcd filter in Yast > Font module)
Please note that these changes will only affect new installations of TW with xfce and only if xfce4-branding-openSUSE sub-packages are installed. Existing users should not be affected by this. [...] Instead I got a new xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin and battery status which I definitely did not have before (and never needed them).
FWIW, the hp-systray application captured by the new statusnotifier-plugin doesn't work anymore. One click is handled, but any further click in the notifier menu is not passed on to the hp-systray app anymore. Question remains: how do we deal with packages developed in some ABC:xyz project? Cheers. l8er manfred
Unfortunately, they are! Apologies when I'm talking about X11:xfce here, but I believe it to be the development base for XFCE... so, if anyone knows a better/more appropriate place to discuss this than here, please advise.
Hi I'm looking into your problem. However things that are related to X11:xfce development are best discussed in opensuse-xfce@opensuse.org Maurizio Galli (MauG) On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 3:14 AM Manfred Hollstein <mhollstein@t-online.de> wrote:
Moin,
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 01:36:12 +0100, Maurizio Galli (MauG) wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share with you all that xfce will have a new default look soon in Tumbleweed, for new installations. Here below is a recap of the changes:
* GTK theme: Mint-Y-Darker-Teal (modern look that uses teal as highlight, matching openSUSE color schemes) * xfwm4 theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal * icon theme: elementary-xfce (inspired by Tango and Elementary) * Font: Noto Sans has a wide support for different languages, including Asian languages and emojis making it a good default. * Font: Hack is cool and one of the most complete monospace fonts around * Font: Hint Slight is usually considered a better default for hinting * Font: Added "rgb" value, recommended setting for LCD screens (if font looks like a "rainbow" you need to enable lcd filter in Yast > Font module)
Please note that these changes will only affect new installations of TW with xfce and only if xfce4-branding-openSUSE sub-packages are installed. Existing users should not be affected by this.
Unfortunately, they are! Apologies when I'm talking about X11:xfce here, but I believe it to be the development base for XFCE... so, if anyone knows a better/more appropriate place to discuss this than here, please advise.
When I installed the various *branding* packages yesterday, after the next login my base panel was almost completely destroyed. The "Workspace Switcher" was gone, the same happened to the "Notification Area". Instead I got a new xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin and battery status which I definitely did not have before (and never needed them). What's worse is that the order of the elements in the panel got screwed up, too. I had to manually fix all user accounts of all long time XFCE users here. This doesn't actually sound to me like your change wouldn't have an effect on "existing users".
How/where should issues like this be dealt with? ML, boo, ???
Preview here: https://imgur.com/a/le5Dred
-- Maurizio Galli (MauG)
Cheers.
l8er manfred
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I was able to reproduce the issue. The ID of some of the plugins changed and can sometimes “confuse” older configurations into loading the wrong plugin or simply fail in doing so. The result is the “mess” described in this thread. A fix to restore the correct ID of the plug ins is on the way. For the time being I would advise not to update xfce4-branding-openSUSE sub-packages until the fix lands in Tumbleweed. Cheers Maurizio Galli (MauG) On 12/13/18, Manfred Hollstein <mhollstein@t-online.de> wrote:
Moin,
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 01:36:12 +0100, Maurizio Galli (MauG) wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share with you all that xfce will have a new default look soon in Tumbleweed, for new installations. Here below is a recap of the changes:
* GTK theme: Mint-Y-Darker-Teal (modern look that uses teal as highlight, matching openSUSE color schemes) * xfwm4 theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal * icon theme: elementary-xfce (inspired by Tango and Elementary) * Font: Noto Sans has a wide support for different languages, including Asian languages and emojis making it a good default. * Font: Hack is cool and one of the most complete monospace fonts around * Font: Hint Slight is usually considered a better default for hinting * Font: Added "rgb" value, recommended setting for LCD screens (if font looks like a "rainbow" you need to enable lcd filter in Yast > Font module)
Please note that these changes will only affect new installations of TW with xfce and only if xfce4-branding-openSUSE sub-packages are installed. Existing users should not be affected by this.
Unfortunately, they are! Apologies when I'm talking about X11:xfce here, but I believe it to be the development base for XFCE... so, if anyone knows a better/more appropriate place to discuss this than here, please advise.
When I installed the various *branding* packages yesterday, after the next login my base panel was almost completely destroyed. The "Workspace Switcher" was gone, the same happened to the "Notification Area". Instead I got a new xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin and battery status which I definitely did not have before (and never needed them). What's worse is that the order of the elements in the panel got screwed up, too. I had to manually fix all user accounts of all long time XFCE users here. This doesn't actually sound to me like your change wouldn't have an effect on "existing users".
How/where should issues like this be dealt with? ML, boo, ???
Preview here: https://imgur.com/a/le5Dred
-- Maurizio Galli (MauG)
Cheers.
l8er manfred
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 08:36:12AM +0800, Maurizio Galli (MauG) wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share with you all that xfce will have a new default look soon in Tumbleweed, for new installations. Here below is a recap of the changes:
* GTK theme: Mint-Y-Darker-Teal (modern look that uses teal as highlight, matching openSUSE color schemes) * xfwm4 theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal * icon theme: elementary-xfce (inspired by Tango and Elementary) * Font: Noto Sans has a wide support for different languages, including Asian languages and emojis making it a good default. * Font: Hack is cool and one of the most complete monospace fonts around * Font: Hint Slight is usually considered a better default for hinting * Font: Added "rgb" value, recommended setting for LCD screens (if font looks like a "rainbow" you need to enable lcd filter in Yast > Font module)
Please note that these changes will only affect new installations of TW with xfce and only if xfce4-branding-openSUSE sub-packages are installed. Existing users should not be affected by this.
Preview here: https://imgur.com/a/le5Dred
IMO that changes are welcome, I was actually going to write an email suggesting a theme called 'metatheme-geeko' as I just installed it and it solved some local "problems". Nice to see xfce is getting so much attention. thanks, srl
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