[Synfig-devl] [ synfig-Bugs-1801220 ] Some Ubuntu Themes don't show the red border in edition mode

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Bugs item #1801220, was opened at 2007-09-24 16:51
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Category: Usability
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Genete (genete)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Some Ubuntu Themes don't show the red border in edition mode

Initial Comment:
Using Ubuntu 6.10 and the 0.61.06 svn 743.

See this discussion for more details.

http://wiki.synfig.com/Talk:Animation_Basics

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>Comment By: Genete (genete)
Date: 2007-09-25 16:00

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Here it is:
http://www.darthfurby.com/genete/Other/gtkrc

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Comment By: dooglus (dooglus)
Date: 2007-09-25 10:58

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Could you post a copy of /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc from
your ubuntu please?

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Comment By: dooglus (dooglus)
Date: 2007-09-25 02:26

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I think the problem is this:  all synfig does is asks Gtk to draw the
border in red.  If Ubuntu's themes have set the border size to zero then
you won't see the border color when it changes.

I suspect it would be relatively easy to make a change to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to
globally modify the border with back to 1 or 2 pixels.

I'll look into it - tomorrow...  :)

If I find a way of doing it, I'll add it to the FAQ.

(Incidentally, I found a way of changing the color of the active CPoint in
the gradient dialog - I was finding that the currently selected CPoint was
highlighted in white, against a light grey background, making it very hard
to see.

I put this in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and now the selected CPoint is red:

style "arrow" = "clearlooks-default"     {
  fg[SELECTED] = "#c40" # selected cpoints
  engine "xfce" {}
}
widget_class "gtk*Dialog*GtkTable*GtkDrawingArea" style "arrow"

OK - maybe that only works for the ClearLooks theme, I'm not sure, but
that's the one I use...  Probably removing "clearlooks-" from the above
will make it work elsewhere if it doesn't already.

The "engine" line may depend on having xfce installed, too, so that can be
removed if you like.

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Comment By: Genete (genete)
Date: 2007-09-24 18:44

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No luck. It was Anime Studio. It has its own GUI and don't use GTK, QT or
similar. And also it is not opensource...
It place the red border when you're at frame 0. It uses that frame as its
"non animation edition mode". Placing the cursor at any other frame means
automatically being in "animation edition mode".

I'm sorry. 

Regarding to Ubuntu Themes I believe it is a problem of the position of
the red border. I'm sure that the red border is drawn but it is hidden by
the guides for some themes. Maybe you could change the guides's colour or
draw the red border OVER the guide instead of draw it over the canvas. It
is only an idea.

best, Carlos

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Comment By: dooglus (dooglus)
Date: 2007-09-24 18:22

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You mentioned that some other apps use the same 'red border' trick to show
when they're in a different mode.  Do these other apps work even in the
themes you have listed as not working with synfig's red border?

If so, which apps are you talking about?  Hopefully they're open source
apps so I can take a look and see what they're doing differently.

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Comment By: Genete (genete)
Date: 2007-09-24 17:14

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The svn was 745 sorry.

The working themes are:

    * Resillience
    * LargePrint
    * LowContrastLargePrint
    * Glider
    * Mist (partially; the thick of the red border is a half)
    * LowContrast
    * LightHouseWhite
    * Raleight
    * Redmond
    * Simple
    * ThinIce 

The non working Themes are:
    * Silicon
    * Outdoors
    * LegacyHuman
    * IndustrialTango
    * Industrial
    * Human
    * HighContrastLargePrintInverse
    * HighContrastLargePrint
    * HighContrastInverse
    * HighContrast
    * Crux
    * ClearLooks

I haven't more control themes installed. The changes at window border and
icons don't affect to the red border.

More information at the discussion link. I think it is a waste time to
make more screen shots because simply the red border is shown or not. 

You're welcome.

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Comment By: dooglus (dooglus)
Date: 2007-09-24 16:56

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Did you try other themes?  Do some work and others not work?  Can you give
a few examples of each?

Thanks.

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