Re: Look and Feel

[Jason Clouse]

On 2005-02-19 03:58:47 -0500 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:

> 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 good to hear.  This is really what I was pushing for.