Improvements for Pocillo

Themes
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I’d like to suggest some improvements be made to Pocillo, so that UB retains it’s unique style while being a little more friendly to new users, as I was telling @fossfreedom earlier. I’d implement these myself and fork Pocillo, but I only know enough theming to change border-radius (how round a theme is), and the colors. Here are my suggestions:

  • Don’t get the window control style from the headerbar. Upstream Materia does this, but Pocillo shouldn’t - the Pocillo/Moka controls might feel ‘awkward’ to users coming from stock Ubuntu (with Yaru) or Windows. I suggest we modify Pocillo to use window controls similar to Qogir, as a brilliant example implementing this.
  • Make the normal variants (not slim ones) not have such big tabs (and maybe other elements) - although it’s a considerable improvement over stock Materia, some things are still HUGE. For example, Tilix with tabs enabled using the standard Pocillo:
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    Compare this to the Slim version:
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    That feels much better, in my opinion.

And that’s all I can remember. This is all my personal opinion, but I think a lot of people might agree with me. For reference, here is Pocillo’s current design with the Pocillo/Moka Icons:

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And here’s Qogir:
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Controls in the second one probably feel better to most users.

Thanks!

Introducing Qogiri - Upcoming Default Ubuntu Budgie theme
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Disagree with the controls request.

The other suggestions are reasonable.

Happy to receive any fixes by anyone via our theme repo https://github.com/ubuntubudgie/pocillo-gtk-theme

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Curious, why do you disagree with the controls request?

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Also, a side note, why dont we add Firefox instead of chromium?

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Firefox has been the default app since 19.04

I personally dont like the Qogir controls. The current controls are part of the distinctive design of Pocillo. Not to say it cant be tweaked but I am not moving wholesale away from the current control design.

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Ah, never mind. I don’t mean copying Qogir, I don’t like Qogir’s controls very much too. Just saying we should slightly tweak them, the maximize button the most.

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As I said, happy to tweak and receive any suggestions as a pull request.

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Alright, will check it out. Also, a suggestion: why dont we host UB code on our own GitLab or Gitea server?

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No real advantages to self host. Have to maintain it ourselves … cost etc.

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Oh okay. If you know anything about themes, would you mind telling me where everything involving tabs is? (in Pocillo) thanks

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I would analyse the structure of tilix via GTK_DEBUG=interactive tilix and that will help with theming discovery

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Okay, never knew that thanks

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Didn’t work, unfortunately. GTK Inspector doesn’t launch. I’ve got the necessary packages installed (from Projects/GTK/Inspector - GNOME Wiki!), but doesn’t work

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@fossfreedom Also, why are all the gtk assets ‘yellow’ for pocillo? check gtk-common or gtk-3.24/assets

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During theme compilation the assets are coloured correctly

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Corrupted filesystem?
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I made a proper GTK2 theme to replace Arc (for standard Pocillo at least), I’ll make a PR. First, screenshots of course :slight_smile:

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That’s our current GTK2 theme (the menu bar is supposed to be dark, but I used Pocillo-light as I modified the standard Pocillo)
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What I propose
As you can see, the second one fits in much better with Pocillo. @fossfreedom should I make a PR?

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I want to make a PR but i cant figure out where i should change stuff in my fork :stuck_out_tongue: since all variants are bundled into one folder, the gtk2 folder has a ton of different stuff - I was considering replacing the gtk2 folder, but with the structure of the code, that’s impossible. @fossfreedom can you help here?

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Not sure what you intend to merge via a PR.

For GTK2 there is a normal, light and a dark variant as denoted via gtkrc, gtkrc-light and gtkrc-dark respectively. They basically set up the colours for each .rc file which describes the gtk2 widgets.

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Currently, Pocillo GTK2 uses Arc. I intend to change that to a Materia based gtk2 theme, look above. I can send you the code if you want to make a pr

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make the PR via github - the PR needs to retain the standard (Pocillo), dark and light variants.

Don’t mind if you replace the current GTK2 stuff