Any reasons why this is not in gnome, it's clearly obvious that this is an improvement....

Good Job man! Only if it was integrated in next gnome ...

Hi,
I could install it successfully on Hardy.

However, after few days, an update from ubuntu come (2.12.9-4ubuntu3).
The problem is that yours is 2.12.9-3ubuntu5 and gdebi doesn't allow me to re install it. How can I do?
Thanks

good question, i am trying to figure this out aswell...

Hi,
in the end I could re install it.
By terminal, use dpkg with --force-downgrade oprion

"sudo dpkg --force-downgrade -i yourPackage.deb"

I hope it will help.

I downloaded the Gutsy Deb, and it says that libc6 dependency is not met. However, when checking my packages, it is installed, but I don't have a package called gtk2-dev.

argh.. it was built on 2.6.24 kernel in gutsy, hence the libc dependency. Try building it from source then

Thanks for this patch!

You can do something for use the pixmap engine for the entire panel?

So it would be posible make themes for the panel independent of the panel size.

It would be nice.

Saludos.

Thank you very much.

Have you tried to contact the Gnome people thinking of an official commit?

Whatsoever, an official SVN (alike) repository would help this virus to reach most official distros!

Once again... thank you \m/

This looks cool, have you sent the patch upstream?

If you haven't already (I couldn't see that anyone had...) open a bug in bugzilla (bugzilla.gnome.org) and attach the patch :)

This is awesome! Works flawlessly! Thanx a ton mate! Rated gud!

OK, I tried it (32 bit deb - force architecture method) and it seems to have worked, however it seems to have really wrecked a lot of themes... any ideas!?

I just noticed I also had "broken packages" and in fixing them it seems to have disabled this... maybe it's not worth it...

believe me! it's worth it! :D

do whatever it takes! get it working!

you will thank yourself later :)

//Robert

PS. I compiled the source with no problem :)

Is this patch provided on the Ubuntu standard packages or have I to add this link on my thmes download-page ??

would it be possible to get this into the official repos.

I'll try out as soon as Hardy (final) is released!

I grabbed the sources and the package, not sure if --force-architecture will work for this... do you happen to know? (before I try it and blow up the comp :P)

This is great work, thank you!

I tried to install it, and it kept asking for dependancies, and dependancies for those dependancies, and so on, until something happened and some file got screwed, because nothing that was gtk would open (it was a libg...something, I don't remember the name).
Is there an easier way to do it?

--> No, just install each package and xxxxx-dev packages as asked. Welcome to linux funny compliers world !
I suggest you to also install "colorgcc" and "colormake"
Use is the same as gcc/g++ and make, but it will output colored text. Use "colormake" and "colormake install", try this ^^

You need the gtk2 development packages installed as well probably names like glib2-devel, atk-devel, pango-devel, and gtk2-devel or whatever they're called on ubuntu.

--> Yep. I don't know all the names... they are usually named by the suffix "-dev" on Debian/Ubuntu.

pls help I got this error:

penguin@penguin-ubuntu:~/Desktop/pixbuf-engine$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for f77... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for cf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for f90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for pghpf... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking for g95... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for ifort... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for ftn... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
(cached) (cached) checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GTK... no
configure: error: GTK+-2.8 is required to compile

Any advice is appreciated....

Thanks for your advises. The name of ubuntu package needed to compile this is "python-gtk2-dev". Just get it from repo.

BTW I downloaded the .deb file for Gutsy and I got an error the time I tried to install it. The error is "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libc6". I wonder why cause I have this "libc6" already installed in my machine and there should be no problem.

You need the gtk2 development packages installed as well probably names like glib2-devel, atk-devel, pango-devel, and gtk2-devel or whatever they're called on ubuntu.

I tried to install it, and it kept asking for dependancies, and dependancies for those dependancies, and so on, until something happened and some file got screwed, because nothing that was gtk would open (it was a libg...something, I don't remember the name).
Is there an easier way to do it?

Just install the package "automake".

Under Ubuntu Gutsy it is version '1:1.10+nogfdl-1'

Btw, this looks great ^^