GTK+ Issues

During my ongoing work on an SVG based theme to be realized with the gtk-css-engine I became aware of a number of shortcomings in GTK+.

There’s no Prelight on menus and tabs, making them feel like dead space. There’s an old bug report with patch for this, but it started out as being specifically for the Windows port:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340203

No Active (depressed) state for entries. This is admittedly controversial:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589971

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Treating the parts of a SpinButton like separate widgets works against drawing arrows “inside” a SpinButton. Also the focus indication isn’t drawn around the whole widget like it should be, for this reason:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589973

There shouldn’t be focus indication on only the current tab of a Notebook:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589975

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There should be support for drawing the sides of tabs differently depending on whether they line up with the page or not:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589981

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Orange Woman

Pastel chalk and coloured pencils on 2 layers of paper (DIN A 3). No digital editing besides color correction and fixing the highlights in the eyes, as they didn’t appear like on the original. Drawn as birthday present for my dad. He really likes oranges and poppy

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Lumiera Final

So after several more variations and tweaks, alternative proposals and feedback from several people, it looks like we finally have a definitive logo for Lumiera:

Original Concept by anamii

A public Git repo and Firefox’s ability to display at least basic SVG have been a great help.

Christian Thäter made a nice variant for the Credits page.

ubuntuusers.de 2

Following some feedback on the ubuntuusers.de forum (German), I softened the shapes, added outlines and shading:

ubuntuusers.de

This is the current ubuntuusers.de logo:

Thinking about what it might be meant to represent somehow led me to:

Deutschland

Mainly for my German readers: All the fuss about banning Paintball and Laserdome, cutting off Internet access on repeated copyright infringement and most of all the stop-sign bullshit from van der Leyen inspired me to this:

Available on shirts at spreadshirt.net.