Re: Themes [Was: Changes I've been thinking of...]

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 12 Oct 2009, at 06:10, Germán Arias wrote:

> El dom, 11-10-2009 a las 13:34 +0200, Fred Kiefer escribió:
> > Germán Arias schrieb:
> > > 3) Themes: Well, there are currently people working on it.
> >
> > Are you sure about that? Riccardo has build at least one theme. I  
> > have
> > heard that Greg was building a Windows theme and also worked on  
> > porting
> > Camaelon to GSTheme, but never seen any of it. Are there more themes
> > (based on GSTheme) out there? What is there state, what problems are
> > people facing and why are there so few contributions to extent the  
> > theme
> > support in GNUstep?
>
> Well maybe I should be more precise "There are people working to
> implement GSTheme". But even with the current state, I believe that  
> much
> can be achieved with the colors (there are bugs but a few). For  
> example,
> I thought about a tool that could be very useful for packagers. This
> tool gets the name of the user's theme and provides a similar theme  
> for
> GNUstep.

Sounds nice,  copying the color schemes might go a long way towards  
making things fit in.

> Or just provide a lot of themes and enable to SystemPreferences
> establish a global theme.

Also sounds good.  Easy to just list the installed theme names and set  
one of them as the GSTheme value in NSGlobalDomain.  A bit more work  
if you want to be able to 'preview' a theme before setting it as a  
default, but still not too hard, and a really quite useful.  The code  
in GSThemePanel.m which lets you select the theme for your running  
application could be used as a starting point.