Re: FOSDEM and beyond (next stable release of base)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> I would really like to see theming be usable by designers (people wanting to 
> produce nice looking themes), not just for integration with 'native' systems 
> like mswindows or gnome.  The latter *needs* coding while the former is much 
> better done avoiding coding, so we really want to try implementing support for 
> all the recent (code-based-theme-oriented) changes in Thematic.app, and if 
> necessary change them to be more friendly for non-code themes.  Eric may 
> already be doing that (I haven't tracked the recent changes).
> However ...this is really only an issue if you are worried about the theme API 
> changing ... if it's OK for Etoile to track any changes then there's no issue 
> to worry about.
>
> Polished horizontal/in-window menu support is great.
>    
In-window menus improved really a great deal. Their behaviour is a bit 
weird and on X11 we can have some  redraw problems due to resize event 
in the queue, but no real show-stoppers.

You know I have three pure Themaitc themes with no code in the works, 
once since last FOSDEM either! But either because of the lack of 
features, either because of bugs in gnustep or thematic, there is 
nothign worth of 0.1 release, even if they are close.

We could approach things gradually of course.

Riccardo