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Post by frozdy on Feb 5, 2022 7:09:29 GMT
i was wondering if it would be possible to have the color settings section show what color it has? even though the "custom color" isn't ticked, I would like it to show its current color regardless, so tat I can use it as context clues for what colors I'm changing and where.  as it is now, I have NO idea what to change to change the clock color, and going through them 1 by 1 is terrible on my phone virtual keyboard/mouse pad I'm using to control this box. |
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Post by thewaiter on Feb 5, 2022 8:44:52 GMT
Hello there Very good point and idea to improve. I am adding this feature to my to-do list  Stefan |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2022 12:46:14 GMT
i was wondering if it would be possible to have the color settings section show what color it has? even though the "custom color" isn't ticked, I would like it to show its current color regardless, so tat I can use it as context clues for what colors I'm changing and where. as it is now, I have NO idea what to change to change the clock color, and going through them 1 by 1 is terrible on my phone virtual keyboard/mouse pad I'm using to control this box.
Hello my friend ,
yes , thats what i think too, when i am trying to "mod" the optics ... there are some menus, which seem to be rare understandable for newbies like me. Some menus do not have easily understandable submenus. You have to guess things all the time. Is this setting to be used one way or the other, it lacks an easy to understand menu guide. Like you know it from Windows or OSX. Some settings menus also look a bit untidy.
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Post by Hippytaff on Feb 5, 2022 13:56:46 GMT
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Post by frozdy on Feb 5, 2022 19:41:07 GMT
Hello there Very good point and idea to improve. I am adding this feature to my to-do list  Stefan much appreciated |
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Post by thewaiter on Mar 7, 2022 11:58:29 GMT
I played with color settings and found pretty serious bugs in ArcGreen and ArcDark themes. I wasn't able to change window frame color, shelf color, border font color, winlist font color and more. I did some research and found the theme author did not respect color class names defined in Moksha code. I fixed both themes. You can test the result after Moksha and themes upload. I even added 2 new items for border title base color (default/active) for better customization. I hope you will like these little things Stefan |
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Post by ligoxi on Mar 7, 2022 17:18:12 GMT
In this nightmare (war, fuel price, electricity price - i do not use gas) one of the few places that things improve is this distro. So seems one man is capable for the worst while one man can try to just make this world slightly better for at least bodhi users. Had a conversation that argues this with 2 different people. More on feedback thread
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Post by thewaiter on Mar 9, 2022 18:24:33 GMT
Hello again Actually I spent days on this little project without any success. Today I was lucky. I have my code working BUT(!) I have found one very bad news. Raster (e main developer) changed color classes completely in EFL. He "ruined" the old classes during the last year. There is a command to get all classes to array (edje_color_class_list). But this command returns new color values which are completely different than moksha's ones. There are always some solutions how to parse edc files but this is over my time capabilities. Older efl should work fine but I doubt Ylee will agree with using it. My head works subconsciously so maybe one day I will have "aha" effect with a solution. This is the screenshot. Moksha on the left in code editor vs E25 color classes i.imgur.com/p0C0Fjb.jpgStefan |
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Post by ligoxi on Mar 10, 2022 11:51:28 GMT
It is not only that c programming is tough, editing moksha another knowledge overhead needed, in the end seems efl libraries are a moving target constantly changing... I want to believe that raster changes were for the best even though this gives headaches to you. Anyways i am always aware of how difficult is what you do
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Post by thewaiter on Mar 10, 2022 12:06:23 GMT
I can make you sure it is very very hard. As you noticed, C is not easy language to work with. Moreover understanding EFL commands and Moksha code is very time and skills demanding. And yes, EFL is changing a lot. Ylee and me have to follow all those changes and adjust code and themes. Very time consuming and frustrating sometimes. BUT, nobody forces us. It was our decision to be involved in this project.
Anyway, I think I have an idea how to make that color settings work but it needs some more coding and testing. Unfortunately my wife has a covid and me apparently as well. I code in worse health condition. I probably should leave it for better times. But what to do in bed? lol
Stefan
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Post by ligoxi on Mar 10, 2022 12:20:50 GMT
Hope you get over this soon. health which is the most important is not for granted. I have done 3 shots of the vaccine and i am very careful. Not going out at all. Not that i was a party animal, but not going even to a theater or cinema...
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Post by thewaiter on Mar 10, 2022 16:19:19 GMT
OK, I have solved the problem. I can read all color classes. BUT! (still some BUTs). Only ArcGreen and ArcDark themes has defined color classes. It means it will not work for other themes we maintain  It can be confusing for users. An another question appears also. How to reset color classes to theme defined? The current settings is logical. If the custom color is not checked, it will follow the theme color, if checked it will follow the user defined color. Now there is a question if continue or not... i.imgur.com/Q4CB3N8.jpgStefan |
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Post by ligoxi on Mar 11, 2022 10:36:54 GMT
It is perhaps my personal taste. Even in this forum if i remember well kev cannot afford the everything green default theme. Since we have only two devs whose precious time is scarce i do not mind focusing all your efforts in making better and using only the default theme. Perhaps the most p
beautiful de is considered to be pantheon found in elementaryos. Which does not allow users to change anything. Well recent 6 release added a dark theme and a gui change of colors. But till recently one could not change anything.
Another question i have is how much better moksha becomes with each new efl release. I mean in the great result we see in our desktop what percentage is moksha code and what percentage is efl?
I believe though we should keep up with latest efl since i for example wait for next version to get the language change issue to be solved. In an analogy efl is the cement and moksha is all the rest in a house?
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Post by thewaiter on Mar 11, 2022 12:00:17 GMT
Yea, I agree. Maintaining 20 themes is a pretty big deal. E25 has only one fully supported theme so far. Ylee told me there could be one more theme. Maintaining only one theme is a dev dream. Unfortunately ArcGreen is love/hate theme with green icons so I am happy we can offer an alternative solutions to our users.
Moksha is "just" an application on the top of EFL. Actually we devs only modificate Moksha code. EFL is fully in e devs hands.
Your issue is related to lang module with switching between layouts right? I am not sure it is Moksha related problem or EFL. Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce it. Anyway, you can help me a bit. What efl version do you use?
type this in terminology and show me the outcome pls
dpkg -l libefl
Stefan
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Post by ligoxi on Mar 11, 2022 12:33:16 GMT
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to reproduce this:on the right where the language is shown right click -> keyboard settings add language. Then on options on switch layout i have the left win key as the key to change between languages. Sometime it works, other times i have to go to the options to just click apply to make it work again. The check box is always there,seems for a reason it is not read somewhere?Anyway, i am a happy bl user and i do not mind this small issue. Once you are strong again, after this covid virus which affected the whole dev team (i guess sooner or later we will all be infected once or more times). If you would like screenshots of how i added one more language please let me know.
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It can be confusing for users. An another question appears also. How to reset color classes to theme defined? The current settings is logical. If the custom color is not checked, it will follow the theme color, if checked it will follow the user defined color. Now there is a question if continue or not...