Re: How to enable themes now days?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Ivan Vučica wrote:
> On 21. 2. 2013., at 00:32, Luis Garcia Alanis <luis@garcia.tv> wrote:
>
> > Nice, but what other values are there? is there one for OS-X (not in window 
> > menu) type of menus?
>
> For menu styles, try these:
> NSNextStepInterfaceStyle, NSWindows95InterfaceStyle, NSMacintoshInterfaceStyle.
Correct. Note also that by fiddling with SystemPreferences (you can also 
enable/disable native window decoration drawing) you are setting those 
preferences yourself. If you use a theme however, the theme will set 
these settings for you.

Note that you can also set a theme per-application: If the application 
uses the standard info-menu, you have a place which indicates the 
"theme" and if you click on it you can change it and set it for that 
specific application.

Sadly I must say that while Theming had an initial burst, it got a bit 
neglected lately. Thus some things that had to be improved weren't and 
some things that worked don't anymore. Thus, personally; I stopped 
working on the couple of themes I wanted to produce until I see an 
improvement there. You can still play with them though, they are in GAP. 
I was working ona windows classic theme, a "neos" theme with a stronger, 
modern accent but of NeXT heritage and just a "dark" theme with dark 
accents, which is the least usable though. Since they are themes without 
code, you can swap them in or out and dynamically test them on the fly, 
it is easy.

Riccardo