Colored Notes

I passed the last night to hack on a gtkrc snippet for the Notes plugin, because I couldn't find my sleep well. So being borred I killed a little bit the time to have a colored notes window :-) I know it was possible since always, I just never carred to do it. Using colors showed one annoying problem which are the icons. They don't fit always once you go away from the default gtk theme colors. In consequence I switched them to bold text labels with minus, plus and times. One other thing I didn't succeed with was to theme the menu that is available on the top right corner or Ctrl+M.

Finally the result is nice.

The snippet is the following:

gtk_color_scheme = "notes_fg_color:#E8E58C\nnotes_bg_color:#77741D\nnotes_base_color:#EBE88C\nnotes_text_color:#6B6A4A\nnotes_selected_bg_color:#ACA94E\nnotes_selected_fg_color:#E8E58C"

style "notes-default"
{
xthickness = 2
ythickness = 2

fg[NORMAL]          =  @notes_fg_color
fg[ACTIVE]          =  @notes_fg_color
fg[PRELIGHT]        =  @notes_fg_color
fg[SELECTED]        =  @notes_selected_fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE]     =  shade (3.0,@notes_fg_color)

bg[NORMAL]          =  @notes_bg_color
bg[ACTIVE]          =  shade (1.0233,@notes_bg_color)
bg[PRELIGHT]        =  mix(0.90, shade (1.1,@notes_bg_color), @notes_selected_bg_color)
bg[SELECTED]        =  @notes_selected_bg_color
bg[INSENSITIVE]     =  shade (1.03,@notes_bg_color)

base[NORMAL]        =  @notes_base_color
base[ACTIVE]        =  shade (0.65,@notes_base_color)
base[PRELIGHT]      =  @notes_base_color
base[SELECTED]      =  @notes_selected_bg_color
base[INSENSITIVE]   =  shade (1.025,@notes_bg_color)

text[NORMAL]        =  @notes_text_color
text[ACTIVE]        =  shade (0.95,@notes_base_color)
text[PRELIGHT]      =  @notes_text_color
text[SELECTED]      =  @notes_selected_fg_color
text[INSENSITIVE]   =  mix (0.675,shade (0.95,@notes_bg_color),@notes_fg_color)
}

widget "xfce4-notes-plugin*" style:highest "notes-default"
widget "xfce4-notes-plugin*.*GtkMenu*" style:highest "notes-default"
widget "xfce4-notes-plugin*.*GtkMenuItem*" style:highest "notes-default"
# TODO Set the colors for the menu

The shade() and mix() functions are specific to either Clearlooks or Aurora. But this can be fixed. Actually I didn't include a default rc style inside the notes plugin, in fact this snippet can be saved for instance as notesrc inside your current theme and you add include "notesrc" in the gtkrc file.

All for the sharing, please enjoy.

Update: The shade() and mix() functions are a feature from GTK+ 2.10 just like gtk_color_scheme.

Update: I released a new version 1.6.4 that has a configurable background color setting.