Make Topaz a Reality
This feature is a special pop out which stays attached to the dock: it would look something like the designs mentioned here:
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for trunk
- Implementation:
-
Slow progress
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Neil J. Patel
- Completed by
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I am already working on the backing infrastructure for this, namely a popup window in libawn, to which you can add any arbitrary GtkWidget. It behaves just like a normal window, but when you show it, it'll will always be above its applet. It also looks very nice, and should land in libawn soon.
Mike: Neil have you seen others have also started to try this themselves on the awn forum?
TheLeashedHare: Your idea for the implementation sounds good , but topaz use transparent controls to display buttons, text edits, etc.. Would we create a new set of widgets specific for AWN?
Alberto: TheLeashedHare, Neil, I had an idea. Instead of creating a new custom set of widget, we can write a custom GTK Engine (see: http://
Then at the start of awn, we load a custom RC that uses this new engine, maybe called AwnMurrine.
AwnMurrine, doesn't read colors from RC, it listens (with DesktopAgnostic) on AWN color changes.
