[openbox] openbox themerc documentation

TT turkuting at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 16:07:52 EST 2015


On 11/24/2015 09:31 PM, Dana Jansens wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 6:11 AM, TT <turkuting at gmail.com 
> <mailto:turkuting at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     where can i find most up-to-date documentation for openbox, esp.
>     the theme file syntax?
>
>     it seems that what little documentation comes with openbox
>     install, is old, if not outdated.
>     the themes provided are even older.
>
>     the wiki has a very nice page for theming
>     <http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Themes>, but it's been last modified
>     in 2013. is it still status quo, and if not, what is?
>
>
> It's up-to-date AFAIK.
>
>     there is a few new options since the syntax changed, esp. osd.*,
>     and i'd also like to understand options like "flat raised solid
>     gradient vertical parentrelative" better...
>
>
> If there's anything missing, adding it to the wiki would be appropriate.

i didn't mean it like that; those were just examples from inconsistent 
usage i found inside various themercs.
i /think /the osd.* settings have been added relatively recently, but 
they are documented in the wiki.

i since came to the conclusion that the syntax most probably simply 
hasn't changed since 2013.

but it's pretty complex, and some aspects are not fully covered in the 
wiki; e.g. the parentrelative option: it's pretty powerful (i can 
combine inherited & new options, e.g. a pressed button = "parentrelative 
sunken"), but also not always apparent from where it actually inherits.

it would be interesting to create an example theme with as few lines as 
possible, using parentrelative and inherited defaults to the largest 
extent possible (without defaulting to the inbuilt defaults).

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