Porting of WinXP theme to Beryl

[squirt33 0]

I'm porting a winodows xp theme to beryl..I need someone who's good at porting min,make,restore etc buttons and has expeirnce with it does them form me..I WIll give teme credit.

[firecracker6 0]

in a strange way, I'm kinda interested in seeing a Beryl winXP (hopefully slightly polished where it's needed,) theme..

please keep us posted with your progress.. maybe even screenshots?

[squirt33 0]

Nononono... I'm porting a VS from winxp. To Beryl...win xo WAYYYY to uglie.

[firecracker6 0]

hha.. but think of what Beryl could do with all that fisherprice goodness!

[squirt33 0]

Well already have one of those....Trust me, we have it.

[firecracker6 0]

Do u mean there's already a ported windows XP Luna theme for Beryl?

If so, I'd be interested in seeing a screenshot of it.

[squirt33 0]

Yeah.. I'll get oen for you when I get a chance.

[firecracker6 0]

a link would even suffice I did a brief search but didn't find anything that was really luna-like. I thought someone would have come along and improved upon luna the way there was a port done for OSX back in the day.

Oh, you might know this but can Beryl handle things like window titlebar/frame blurring? I've been seeing vista style glass skins for Beryl but was wondering if they could achieve the blur effect similar to vista..

[squirt33 0]

install the non-free therme pack and you'll get it, I don't know of a link...

[firecracker6 0]

thanks for checking in with this teaser of a lead ..lol

Seriously tho, much appreciated.

Do you have it yourself? and if so, maybe a screenshot?

*I'm waiting for someone to be a wiseass and post a shot of luna on XP with a penguin wallpaper*

[The Cereal Mouse 0]

Why? But why? Why do you want to port Luna to Beryl?

[squirt33 0]

I don't want to... I want to port a different VS.

I'lkl get you a screenie when I boot into UBuntu next, K??

[firecracker6 0]

don't capital k me.. this ain't that big a deal

[Levi- The perfectionist 0]

*sleepy lazy tone*; ... whats beryl?

[squirt33 0]

Ermmm.....

Wikipedia:

Beryl is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. It is a fork of Compiz.Origin

Beryl is the new project name for the Quinnstorm branch of Compiz, announced on 19 September 2006 after Quinnstorm and the development team, the leader of which was Eamonn Bell, decided that the fork had come too far from the original Compiz started by Novell (compiz-vanilla). After the Novell XGL/Compiz team (mostly David Reveman) refused the proposition to merge the Quinnstorm changes with compiz-vanilla, the decision was made to make a real differentiation.[1][2][3] As of 20 October 2006, version 0.1.1 has been released into the original compiz-quinnstorm repositories and mirrors. On 18 January 2007, version 0.2.0 beta 1 was released for testing purposes.

[edit] Differences

Notable differences between Compiz and Beryl as listed on the Beryl FAQ are the following:

* The window decorator, formerly known as cgwd, is now named emerald. Currently, a cgwd theme can be ported to emerald by changing the extension from .cgwd to .emerald.

* Uses flat file backend instead of gconf, almost no GNOME dependency.

* Has a large variety of extra plugins, and enhanced features in other plugins.

o Most of these have been ported to the compiz-extra package[4][5]

* It has three themeable decorators: Emerald, Heliodor, and Aquamarine.

* It has a theme manager called emerald-theme-manager.

* Changes frequently: new features are added on a daily basis.

* Made by a community at Beryl Project Forums.

[edit] Window decorators

Like Compiz and unlike traditional window managers, Beryl delegates the drawing of window borders to a separate process, called a window decorator. There are currently three of them, all named after varieties of beryl, although only Emerald is currently considered stable.

* Emerald, the default window decorator and a continuation of cgwd, has its own theme format and supports effects like alpha transparency.

* Heliodor, a fork of Compiz's gtk-window-decorator, supports Metacity themes.

* Aquamarine supports KWin themes.