[openbox] Bitmap buttons patch

[Ben Jansens]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:49:28AM -0400, Scott Moynes wrote:
> Here is my bitmap button patch, or as I like to call it bubby-buttons.
> 
> It is quite rough, and there's some things I'd like to fix up, but I
> wanted some feedback.
> 
> Here's how it works:
>  - new style/rcfile options have been added
>        window.button.{close,max,icon,stick}_mask: filename
>    Right now the filename has to be specified absolutely, but that
>    will change. I don't know whether we should just use expandTilde()
>    or make the filename relative to the style location.

I'd say expandTilde() and then if the filename doesn't start with a
'/', use the relative path from the style.

> - the files must be xbm files, which gimp can easily create, or if you
>   really want to can be created with a simple text editor. I have a
>   sample set at
>   http://nexus.carleton.ca/~smoynes/{close,icon,stick,max}.xbm
>   If there is any problem loading the file the old images are
>   used. This allows users to override the stile with something like
>   window.button.close_mask: false
>   and they don't have to put up with some lame matrix theme buttons
> - The images won't scale. Let me repeat that. The images won't
>   scale. Nor are they likely ever going to. In my experimentation, I
>   found the difference in size between the smallest title bar I'd ever
>   consider using and the largest to be pretty small. It might be a
>   problem across different machines, but it isn't difficult to scale
>   them yourself with an image editor.
> 
> Here's a quick screenshot.
>        http://nexus.carleton.ca/~smoynes/bubby-buttons.png
>        
> Any questions, comments or patches are welcome.

Ben
-- 
I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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