New features in rofi to improve themeing.

Let me start with thanking you again for these impressive themes.

In git I (and others) tried to add some options that should make it easier to make incredable themes like these.

Mouse cursor

You can now set the mouse cursor on buttons/textbox:

element,element-text,element-icon, button { 
    cursor: pointer;                
}                                   
entry {                             
    cursor: text;                   
}

Widget Background image

You can set background image (and scale in width,height or both). Or you can set gradients.

window {
    background-image: url("/tmp/i3.png", both);
}
element {
    children: [element-icon, element-text];
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, black/20%, white/20%, black/10%);
}

Icon/Button action

You can make clickable buttons/icons in the UI. For example to make an icon that pastes text in the entry box:

icon-paste {
    expand: false;
    filename: "gtk-paste";
    size: 24;
    vertical-align: 0.5;
    action: "kb-primary-paste";
}

User timeout

If you want to auto-close the UI, this is now possible too:

configuration {
  timeout {
      delay:  15;
      action: "kb-cancel";
  }
}

Both delay and action need to be set. Action can be any of the keybindings as shown in rofi -show keys.

(-timeout-delay 15 -timeout-action "kb-cancel" on commandline.).

Please let me know if there are other additions to the theme engine I can make that helps building themes. I don't want to implement a full CSS set as that is to much work, but there might be things that I can easily implement.

Dave.

adi1090x / rofi