Re: a question about Camaelon

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-02-23 04:43:59 +0200 Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:

> 
> Le 22 févr. 05, à 17:29, Enrico Sersale a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> I had some hard coded colors in GWorkspace so now I'm substituting them 
>> with system colors to make the app working with Camaelon.
> 
> nice :-)
> actually, it's usefull not only with camaelon, but also when you use 
> different system colors.. (see color prefs)
> 
>> But I'm encountering some problems; Camaelon, in his turn, uses hard coded 
>> colors in various places.
> 
> just a few ;-) and Camaelon 2 isn't released yet.. I'll clean the remaining 
> hard-coded colors before the official release. But...
> 
>> [snip]
> .... we also miss a few more system colors; for example, "rowBackgroundColor" 
> that we could use in NSTableView/NSOutlineView/NSBrowserView (instead of 
> controlBackgroundColor).
> 
> The question is, where should we put theses few new colors ? in the system 
> color list or in the extended system color list used by NSToolbar ?
>
> I guess it should go in the extended system color list, but at the same time, 
> I think it's a bit annoying to have two system color lists.. what do you 
> think?

I think that Camaelon should use only system colors. It must be transparent for 
the developer. If he write a custom control, he expects that its look is 
consistent with all the other elements.
If an extended system color list must exists, it should be in -gui, as a 
GNUstep extension, not only in Camaelon.

> Else, about Camaelon's use of color lists, I entirely agree with your post, 
> of course. ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
>