Oxygen-gtk 1.1 is out

The first major release of Oxygen-gtk has been uploaded to kde ftp servers on Wednesday June 15 and is available for download here.

This release comes with many improvements over the 1.0 series, which include:

• animations (smooth glow on mouse-over and focus for virtually all widgets, similar with what exists for the Qt version), controlled using the same configuration options as the Qt version, via oxygen-settings;
• on-fly update of the applications when configuration options are changed, via interfacing of the style to dbus;
• improvement of the rendering of many widgets to have better consistency with the Qt version of oxygen, and remain in sync with latest design changes that will be shipped with KDE4.7. This affects notably scrollbars, sliders, groupboxes (Aka GtkFrames), etc;
• real inner shadows for lists, icon views and other text edition widgets (thanks to Ruslan for making this possible);
• better integration with oxygen's window decoration (effective only with kde 4.7), in the sense that the decoration will detect applications for which the window background gradient cannot be rendered (such as Firefox, Thunderbird, open-office, etc.), and consistently paint itself flat;
• support for KWin's new shadow system, that applies to menus, drop-down lists and tooltips;
  
• a dedicated demo application, called oxygen-gtk-demo, which is similar (though not identical) to its oxygen-demo Qt counterpart, as illustrated in the screenshot below.

oxygen-gtk-demo

This release is meant to be used with KDE SC 4.7, which should become available some time this summer, due to the redesign of some Qt widgets that will be shipped with it. In the meanwhile, users will experience some visual inconsistencies (nothing dramatic though), and might prefer to stick to the 1.0 version.

As for the 1.0 series, we (Ruslan, Cédric and I) will provide some monthly bugfix releases of the 1.1 version, based on bugs reported to us at bugs.kde.org. In parallel we will work on the next major release (1.2), focusing notably (and without any warranty) on the gtk3 port as well as on making oxygen-gtk a more standalone gtk widget style, that can also be used seamlessly outside of KDE.