Excelsior (Engine)

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Description:

A Theme Engine based on Clearlooks.

Screenshots:

#1 Aqua Widget Style
#2 BubbleGum Widget Style
#3 Clarius Widget Style
#4 Flat Widget Style http://nanolx.org/free/scrn/xcl-flat.png
#5 Inverted Widget Stylehttp://nanolx.org/free/scrn/xcl-inverted.png

ENGINE OPTIONS:

contrast = # contrast. value is a float (eg 0.82)

radius = # widget roundness. value is a float

animation = # enable animation. TRUE or FALSE

scrollbarstyle = # the scrollbar style. 0 = striped; 1 = arrowed; 2 = plain

toolbarstyle = # the style of the toolbar 0 = gummy bar; 1 = glossy bar

menubarstyle = # the style of the menubar. 0 = gummy bar; 1 = glossy bar

HINT: gummy + gummy || glossy + glossy == merged bar

random_effect = # enable or disable random effects on buttons/tabs 0 = no; 1 = stripes; 2 = bubbles

random_opacity = # The Opacity of the stripes, value is a float from 0.0 to 1.0

progbar_style = # the style of the progressbar. 0 = striped; 1 = arrowed; 2 = flat gradient;

progbar_to_left = # wether to animate the progressbar rtl (right to left) or ltr (left to right). 0 = ltr; 1 = rtl

mw_gradient = # Gradient on the MainWindow, 0 = plain; 1 = horizontal gradient; 2 = diagonal gradient

aqua_tabs = # the Style of the Tabs; 0 = excelsior 1.0+; 1 = excelsior 1.0-

style = # The Widget style; one of INVERTED - BUBBLEGUM - AQUA - FLAT - CLARIUS

pellucid_scales = # How to draw the sliders on scales; 0 = opaque; 1 = pellucid

scale_trough_size = # size of the scale-trough widget (the bar behind the "volume-slider")

tooltip_style = # The Gradient on the tooltips 0 = Straight; 1 = Curved (like before);

TIP:

You can use the Gnome-Color-Chooser to modify the Theme.

If you have Excelsior 1.5.0+ you can also change the engine-options within Gnome-Color-Chooser

INSTALLATION:

Debian Systems

sudo apt-get install fakeroot dpkg-dev
( or: su -c "apt-get install fakeroot dpkg-dev")

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

This will - if you have all deps installed - generate a debian binary package, install it via:

cd .. && sudo dpkg -i excelsior*.deb
(or: cd .. && su -c "dpkg -i excelsior*.deb")

If you have built a package for SID, send it to me, so that I can provide it here
(I'm using GTK 2.15 and PANGO 1.24 at the moment, so I can't provide a Package now)

Non-Debian Systems

./configure --prefix=/usr

make

su -c "make install" / sudo make install

Perhaps you'll like it, too.

Comments welcome.
Last changelog:

10 years ago

4.1.0:

[general]

- improved configure.ac
- new autogen.sh (taken from sawfish)
- removed 9 unused variables
- fixed 2 implicit declarations
- updated debian/control description
- use single gtk/glib includes

[scale_trough]

- don't substract 2 from scale_trough_size
- fixed scale_trough right border
- set fallback value for scale_trough_size to 5

[handles]

- draw less grips on handles (4*2 if on toolbar, else 8*2)

[schema]

- added CLARIUS and FLAT to style-list

[themes]

- added scale_trough_size = 5 to all themes
- turn on random effects on all themes

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azawi

8 years ago

:(

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Ikem

5 years ago

This is the actual download link: http://www.nanolx.org/downloads/TerraNova/Archive%20(Excelsior)/excelsior-4.1.0.tar.bz2.

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Chrispy

8 years ago

Sorry for the late reply... Excelsior is deprecated, see TerraNova instead.

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mylesg

10 years ago

I've built a .deb for Ubuntu 8.10 + Updates + Back-Ports but was unable to clearsign, could you help me with that?

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Chrispy

10 years ago

That is not that important, either way:

You need a gpg key for that. Create one via Seahorse.

Name of the key must be:

"Name Familyname <emailaddress>"

keep the < > characters, afterwards open debian/changelog and replace my string inthe last line "Christopher Bratusek <emailaddress>" (keep the rest of the line. and now rebuild.

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mylesg

10 years ago

OK, thanks, I have the key, just didn't change that line in the changelog. Now I know :)

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CruelAngel

11 years ago

I was wondering? What Windows manager do you use on the screenshots, and with what skin? Thanks.

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Chrispy

10 years ago

I'm a sawfish developer, so it's sawfish of course :) The Windowborder is aBOX.

http://sawfish.wikia.com -- here you can dl sawfish and almost 500 themes for it.

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CruelAngel

10 years ago

Oh, thanks :)

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Cygoku

11 years ago

Hi, I am trying to use this theme :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Intrepid-excelsior

But I am getting an error at line 157 using the 3.3.0 version of Excelsior. If I comment this line the error switch to line 158.

please help.

Cygoku

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DaveGardiner

11 years ago

BIG thumbs up here...best version of this engine so far!

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fireice

11 years ago

ok, thank you for that solution. i will try it. :)

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fireice

11 years ago

i have a selfmade theme which uses excelsior engine + pixmaps..there is something strange in thunderbird's menubar. (only with excelsior, same theme with murrine engine works fine in TB)

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9509/screenshot01pd2.png

btw: so far an exciting engine

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Chrispy

11 years ago

I know that problem, but it's not my fault. It's because of Thunderbirds bad Widget-Abstraction (Thunderbird is not a native GTK Application), the problem is also the case with firefox v2, with v3 not, because it has a better abstraction. To fix the issue you'll either have to set the GtkMenubar::shadow-type and the GtkToolbar::shadow-type to GTK_SHADOW_NONE or wait for thunderbird 3.

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Katie

11 years ago

I tried to build a deb package but I got this errors:

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
configure: error: cannot run /bin/bash ./config.sub
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

How will I fix this?

Obviously, I got this error when I installed the fakeroot package from ubuntu repo. I have the same error too when I tried to compile this via ./configure --prefix=/usr. I'ven been successfully compiling this before via this command; It's only now I'm getting those errors after installing the fakeroot pacake...

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Chrispy

11 years ago

dunno, why this happens, but you can delete an re-extract the archive, or manually add the missing files via:

cp /usr/share/libtool/config.{guess,sub} .

or

cp /usr/share/libtool/libltdl/config.{guess,sub} .

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Katie

11 years ago

I have this file in that directory... Do you mean I'm going to copy theses files (config.guess & config.sub) into the excelsior folder after extraction then compile it?

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Chrispy

11 years ago

Download 3.2.1 it will not happen anymore

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Katie

11 years ago

I have this file in that directory... Do you mean I'm going to copy theses files (config.guess & config.sub) into the excelsior folder after extraction then compile it?

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Katie

11 years ago

I have this file in that directory... Do you mean I'm going to copy theses files (config.guess & config.sub) into the excelsior folder after extraction then compile it?

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slaapliedje

11 years ago

Excelsior is jacked when using Debian Sid + Experimental packages of Gnome.

When I try to compose an email with Evolution, the text entry is all sorts of screwey. I know it's excelsior, because as soon as I switched back to clearlooks, it works fine, well in as much as it does with Compiz leaving bits of the | around.

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Chrispy

11 years ago

Ok the Evolution Issue is solved. Just a misconfiguration of the themes.

Quote:bits of the | around.

Can you please explain that more? Screenshot or something like that?

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slaapliedje

11 years ago

It's because you have;

rm -f config.sub config.guess

in the debian/rules file under clean. I put a # before that line and now it compiles just fine.

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Katie

11 years ago

Just a clarification... Do I have to delete these files, config.sub config.guess, that are located in /usr/libtool directory?

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tylerbauman

11 years ago

I'm trying to install this, but it keeps telling me:
checking for x86_64-linux-gnu-pkg-config... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GTK... no
configure: error: GTK+-2.10 is required to compile excelsior
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

I really don't know what to do at this point. I had a few other dependency issues earlier, but solved them only to reach another, thicker brick wall.

Additionally, I have "no"'s from checking for x86_64-linux-gnu-g77... no
through checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no

Clearly there is something very important I am missing, help?

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10 years ago

4.1.0:

[general]

- improved configure.ac
- new autogen.sh (taken from sawfish)
- removed 9 unused variables
- fixed 2 implicit declarations
- updated debian/control description
- use single gtk/glib includes

[scale_trough]

- don't substract 2 from scale_trough_size
- fixed scale_trough right border
- set fallback value for scale_trough_size to 5

[handles]

- draw less grips on handles (4*2 if on toolbar, else 8*2)

[schema]

- added CLARIUS and FLAT to style-list

[themes]

- added scale_trough_size = 5 to all themes
- turn on random effects on all themes

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