Re: Look & feel, future plans

[Fred Kiefer]

Jeff Teunissen wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>> One little point ... you can already change colors by using user 
defaults
>>  to set alternative system colors.
>
> Yes, but there's a problem with this if you use Gorm. The same
> problem exists with fonts and font sizes.
>
> If I set the color defaults, or my font defaults, they are encoded
> in the .gorm file. So not only does my system get my settings, but
> everyone else does, too.
>
> IB had options for setting font and color information such that the
> user's colors were used instead of the developer's -- Gorm does not
>  yet have this capability.

Sorry, part of this missing functionality was a task that I agreed to 
take at the GNUstep developer meeting at the FOSDEM. I actually wrote 
the code for the system colour handling (it is more general, a different 
way to handle named colours) but did not submit it, as I had no chance 
to test it on a Linux machine.
I am currently switching between different countries I live in, so there 
are different machines where I do my GNUstep development on. And the 
NSColor code happened to be on the Windows computer. This time I will 
take it back to the Linux machine test it there and submit it.

Fred