Re: I do use GWorkspace...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 03/29/15 22:51, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote:
> I'm a new subscriber to this list, even if I've read it almost daily 
> for years. Fred Kiefer's last message was the reason why I originally 
> subscribed.

A sad reason...

> I'm not a developper and quiet new in objc programming. I've begun to 
> learn it as a hobby because GWorkspace is my main desktop and I wanted 
> to change it a little.

That's nice to read!

> I'm also creating a little icon theme to use with it, because I'm not 
> very found of the ones used in GNUstep (sorry guys...) and because I 
> wanted something to fit with the Rik.theme, and also with icons I use 
> for gnome apps.
>
> For now, I've made a two liners patch to GWorkspace to change the 
> default color of labels on the Desktop, because I wanted them to be 
> white (as in the ThinkDark theme of Riccardo Mottola), and only them. 
> I'd like to know if it will be possible to code this in a gnustep 
> theme like Rik ?

Theming right not can't change details of how GWorkspace works and 
draws. Themes change how cross-applications features work, like menus, 
colors, windows. Not single applications, like GWorkspace is (you could 
write another file and desktop app and replace it)

> In the same spirit, is it possible to assign in a gnustep theme 
> alternative icons for applications  and fileicons ?

Not that I know, generally this fits a wider set of theming features I 
need to complete some of my themes, but I did not bring this discussion 
up, because I don't think it i s the moment right now. I don't want to 
"waste" this shot of attention and right now it is best to kick out 
gui+back by cleaning out the bugs. Fred resigned, so these new 
developments will wait.


> Just to say, I really want to thank everyone in this community for 
> their work on GNUstep. I've found multiples tutorials from you on the 
> internet to learn objc, and it is really nice.

Nice to know! thanks for the kind words.

Riccardo