Re: customize GNUstep

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 23 juin 05 à 06:37, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :

> On 2005-06-22 23:28:05 +0100 Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:
>
> > Le 22 juin 05 à 22:56, Quentin Mathé a écrit :
> >
> > > Theoretically controlBackgroundColor would the right choice because
> > > NSToolbar isn't a precisely bounded clickable area like a  
> > > button,  but a
> > > clickable area which varies with displayed content like a  table  
> > > view or a
> > > browser column. However controlBackgroundColor is  currently  
> > > white in
> > > GNUstep and that's the problem because a  completely white  
> > > toolbar would be
> > > ugly.
> >
> > Actually, controlBackgroundColor is set to NSLightGray by default   
> > (0.667),
> > which is the same value
> > as for example, windowBackgroundColor ... and personally I think
> > controlBackgroundColor would be fine for the
> > toolbar. Although we can have (as of now) a different colorname  
> > if  you
> > really want to have a different color.. :-)
>
> Well, some confusion here ...

I don't know why but I'm always thinking table views have a white  
background, I'm probably spending too much time on Mac OS X ;-)

> perhaps Quentin tried using controlBackgroundColor and it looked  
> ugly ... might be worth trying again in case the problem was  
> actually some bug at the time and it wouold now work with  
> controlBackgroundColor.

I will try again.

> My feeling is that, if the standard colors are enough, use them.

Yes.

> > Personally I would tend to prefer putting the additional system   
> > colors in
> > the default system color list, that would be
> > simpler. Sure, thoses colors aren't in OpenStep, but that's not a   
> > problem --
> > the default system color list is on the
> > implementation side... so as long as we mark possible new  
> > accessors  methods
> > for theses additional colors as
> > specifically "gnustep only" then, I don't see a problem by  
> > putting  all the
> > colors used by gnustep in the system color
> > list. But well, that's a matter of taste.
>
> Yes ... I agree that keeping a single color list is by far the  
> simplest (maintainable, easy to use etc) option.

That's my opinion also and I would like to move my NSColor category  
in NSColor.m unless Alexander or Fred have a different opinion.

cheers,
Quentin.

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Quentin Mathé
qmathe@club-internet.fr