Re: Look and Feel

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 19 févr. 05, à 08:58, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :

> I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd happily see a good theme engine 
> contributed to the core distribution.
>
> Indeed, I believe it makes sense to have a degree of theme support 
> built in to the standard gui classes rather than requiring a theme 
> engine to be entirely separate ... but extremely 
> clean/clear/simple/maintainable code is essential there, as keeping 
> the gui reliable/bugfree/fast/compatible is high priority.
>
> That being said, if I was writing a theme engine, I'd do it entirely 
> separately to start with ... and only when it was stable would I start 
> to gradually merge features into the gui code where it helps 
> performance and avoids code duplication.  The -poseAs: feature of ObjC 
> is great here.

Well, that's exactly what I'm doing with Camaelon... there's a reason 
the current version isn't officially announced (I'm cleaning up things) 
:-)
And of course, it's separated to -gui, and ideally the small modifs I 
did to many widgets will be committed to -gui, not stay in Camaelon. So 
Camaelon will just end up being a particular implementation of 
GSDrawFunctions..

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Nicolas Roard
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