RE: Themes GNUstep

[Mondragon, Ian]

in order to get themes into InterfaceWM, i'm simply making each
button/titlebar/resizebar/etc a separate X Window & converting all images
into pixmaps to be set into the windows.  i haven't looked at the core
AppKit code in a very long time, but if each widget has a Window at it's
base level, it should be very simple.

- ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Häcker [SMTP:mhaecker@mac.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:53 AM
> To:   discuss@gnustep.org
> Subject:      Re: Themes GNUstep
> 
> >Well, I'd like to make themes easier also, but I don't know the best 
> >way to do it. Perhaps redoing the background and frame drawing 
> >functions so they can be overridden, or perhaps specific (and 
> >documented) drawing methods for different widgets. I was hoping 
> >someone could take the time to look at how other systems implement 
> >themes and adopt that to GNUstep.
> 
> Well I don't know if this is of value for you but I'd like to spend 
> my two cent on this:
> I would love the theming to be bitmap theming. (I think this is also 
> called skinning) By that I mean that there shouldn't be different 
> drawing functions for every theme but instead a mechanism to load a 
> different bitmap to draw the controls.
> 
> That way the gui wouldn't loose its good user friendliness and still 
> provide the main reason for themes: To look cool.
> 
> Doing themes that can change the behaviour of the user interface 
> aren't such a good idea (IMHO) as that would just show that the 
> original user interface wasn't good enough, and should be changed 
> instead. (I know this is debatable but its my opinion. :)
> 
> peace
> Martin
> -- 
> dont.wanna.tell
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> 
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