It’s been a long time since we published rc4 (2 weeks? :-)) anyway, we wanted to work a bit on the graphic theme giving develpers the possibility to change the look&feel of their applications with ease and we introduced some variations to the default P4A theme which was pretty the same since some years :)

Now check out the new default theme:

You can notice that we’ve shadows, gradients and some new icons… but… with just a few lines of code you can get:

or this:

or thousands more :-)

To know how to create color schemas and icons pack just check the rc5 overview on P4A TV

Now, I’m running out of time so let’s jump to the changelog:

- P4A_Table’s CSS was beautified a bit
- _disabled icons were removed, opacity: 0.2 filter is added to buttons
to simulate the disabled effect
- P4A_Message’s CSS was changed due to the variation of its usage,
now it’s not black/bold anymore
- P4A_Table’s order/row indicators were replaced with HTML entities
removing the need for icons
- default fonts in CSS were changed because of the lack of some UTF-8
characters in IE6
- P4A_Menu’ submenu indicator icon was replaced with an HTML entity
which is applied by a javascript function because the indicator
has no reason to be in the HTML
- spacer.png image was removed ’cause unused
- loading.gif was moved from icons directory to theme directory
- some new constants were added to customize theme colors
- a bug with PNG uploads under IE was fixed
- separator.png icon was removed
- P4A_Toolbar’ separators are now rendered as empty divs instead of
an image
- P4A_Toolbar’ were switched from P4A_Image to P4A_Box
- P4A_Toolbar::setSize() method now checks if buttons have the setSize
method to propagate it, otherwise tries the setHeight method, otherwise
throws a warning
- P4A_Message default size was changed to 32
- 48 pixels icons were removed
- a gradient was added to some elements in the default theme
- P4A::messageInfo(), messageWarning() and messageError() methods
were added wrapping P4A::message() method
- P4A icons now implements the freedesktop icon naming specifications:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html

- P4A_Mask’s default icon size was changed from 48 to 32
- P4A_Table_Navigation_Bar’s current page indicator was switched from a
P4A_Label to a P4A_Box because the P4A_Label has to be bundled with a
P4A_Field
- a nice shadow effect was added to system messages and tooltips if
not on handheld or internet explorer browsers
- jQuery::UI was updated to 1.5
- P4A_DB_Navigator’s HTML was reworked to work on ie6 without GIF images
and removign inline CSSes

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Theme customizations, color schemas, shadow effects and much more will be shipped with the new RC coming in the next days, just take a look at the new features on P4A TV :)

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do no have the “window-close” icon, if I was a designer I would create that by myself.

I’m looking at many icon themes in these days and none is complete, all inherit from gnome default (which is released under gpl thus it’s not usable in many cases).

I think that there’s too much mess in the floss artwork between incomplete works and incompatibilities between licenses.

UPDATE: Jakub Szypulka created the icon window-close icon, I hope his artwork will be uploaded to the official tango icons theme (otherwise none would be able to find it and licensing would be a mess). I want to thank him here also if we found that CC and GPL are not compatible thus we cannot bundle tango icons within P4A :-(

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