Re: Themes GNUstep

[Martin Häcker]

> 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
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