Re: Menu (Was: Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes)

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2003-01-23 12:19:46 +0100 Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org> wrote:

> Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> [snip]
> > How difficult it should be to change gui that way,
> > that we can have 'NSMenu' bundles with custom menu
> > interface, so developers can create and user can chose
> > what they like? Can something like that be achieved by
> > using NSInterface functions? (loading of interface bundles)
>
> There is an interface for this. The patch (and a silly example) is here:
> http://w1.423.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/sillytheme-0.0.tar.gz
>
> Basically, you override whatever you need to override in a bundle and
> set the defaults key GUIThemeBundles to the bundle(s) you want to load.
> Some examples can be seen at http://www.roard.com/screenshots/ , and
> there was a 'theme' for application-specific log files posted here a
> while back.
>
> (IMO) this is how gui customization should be done. -gui should come
> with _one_ good, consistent interface (based on NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP), and
> those who want something to be different load bundles.

This is what I wanted to know, if there is a interface for custom gui parts 
bundles. Something that on [[NSButton alloc] init] will return a buttom from 
some budnle.

There should be bundles for:
- NSControl subclasses - this is what we can call 'Theme bundle'
- NSSavePanel and NSOpenPanel - with custom panels, and possibility for 
Workspace based panel that was discussed on irc #gnustep some time ago
- NSMenu (this can cause problems with menu layout and menu items - compare 
NeXT menu and OSX menu)

And there should be some preferences/defaults for those.

With bundle-based gui, gnustep will be more like Lego.
Stefan