Re: modules@cde

[jos <jo...@xs...>]

Hi!

Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > changing to a different color-scheme, in cde, the colors
> > of some pixmaps are changed to fit with the new color-scheme.
> > Is it also possible to do this in fvwm-themes?
> Can you give an example, what colors exactly are changed in icons?
> If it is only background, you can make it transparent.
> 
> And modules@cde should work even without colors@cde, say with colors@migo.
> Please decribe the problem better and we will try to solve it.

Have a look at this example:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvanr/eg.png

which shows part of the cde toolbar. The horizontal stripes at 
the left side, change their color when the color of the panel changes.
I now use a grey-scale pixmap for the stripes, but to really make 
it look nice, one would have to 'colorize' the pixmap using 
the background color of the toolbar (colorset 10 I think). 
This could also work with colors@migo I think, if the colorizing
script were to be called in the modules@cde files. Maybe this could
also be used to optionally adapt the colors of button-pixmaps to 
the current color scheme. 

Making it transparent isn't good enough (well..), because using 
dark stripes would then look bad on a dark background, and using 
light stripes would look bad on a light background. 

> > Also, I think I have to change some of the text-colors in
> > the schemes, as cde uses different colors sometimes. For
> > instance, in the default scheme, cde uses a white foreground
> > color, not a black one.
> You know, text colors were generated automatically by fvwm-themes-images
> (see "COLORS SCHEMES" in the man page). --text-colors could be tweaked.

Oh, probably there is a different algorithm then, to choose 
between black and white...

Best regards,

jos