Anything better than gtk pixmap engine?

[oedipuss]

Is there anything better or more recent than the gtk-pixmap engine? Or perhaps any other way to create image based themes?

I know there's a css based engine for gtk themes on the works, but it's still very incomplete and not for actual theming yet.

[smartboyathome]

Not at the moment. Pixmap is all we have. What do you have against the pixmap engine though?

[oedipuss]

Nothing really. Just wondering if there are more.
Perhaps something with transparency like murrine, but I guess not

[AJB2K3]

What do you mean theres only pixmap.
Where's all the other engines?

Apparently Ubuntu uses Murrine.
Crux engine is also there.
Clearlooks is also there.

[smartboyathome]

There is also the Nodoka engine, and the Aurora engine which was a fork of the Murrine engine.

[oedipuss]

I was asking for engines like pixmap.

Image based themes seem to be the most versatile so far (not that I dislike murrine and the rest), though, and until the css engine comes along there's nothing other than gtk pixmap engine, it seems.

[Giant Speck]

Does anyone know if there is any good documentation out there about how to theme using the pixmap engine? Because it's a little difficult trying to disect an existing pixmap theme in order to make a new one.

[oedipuss]

I wasn't able to find any, other than this : http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkEngines/PixmapEngine