Buffy Theme
While reading up on my newsgroups this morning an interesting thread came across my path in one of the SGI newsgroups. It was talking about the GTK+ themes and how the default GTK look-and-feel is so much different than the Irix default window manager. Well... as it turns out, someone at SGI decided to take it upon themselves to make a GTK theme that made the GTK apps - gEdit, gimp, etc. look like they fit in the Irix window manager. The theme engine is called Buffy and has several pre-built themes corresponding to the different color schemes in Irix's 4Dwm. Interesting...
Now I'm no look-and-feel bigot. I like a lot of different UIs - in fact, there probably isn't one that I dislike, but I have to agree that the GTK apps just seem to stick out - and that's not optimal. So I decided to give this a try. Very interesting and very easy to get to work. Simply build it and then put the appropriate theme gtkrc in your home directory as .gtkrc and it's ready to roll.
No functionality change here, just a little more consistent look for the apps that use GTK. Nice.
I put in a new filter into CIA for Joel yesterday... basically, his idea is to have a user pick a representative pixel and then based on some quantization of that pixel (Hue, Red, etc.) create a filter based on that quantization centered around the value for that pixel. Nothing that earth-shaking, but it's certainly a nice addition to CIA. I put it in, and sent the code up to the web site where, it appears, Joel runs his data through. Interesting.
With the problems CIA is having, I'm really wondering if I need to hide it on the CVSweb display. I mean really... who's looking at this stuff? I've suggested it to more than a dozen people, but it doesn't seem to matter. I'd show the web site I built for Leslie, but that contains sensative information that I think we shouldn't have running loose in the world. But CIA is a good example of C and I might just open it up...