Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread Albert Palacios
Hi, With the GitHub code, where the GSTheme.m file is 8 years old, I can't see how to create a theme to my liking. Now I see that there have been modifications three months ago to some files, I will have to look at the differences to see in detail what it is about. The 'Argentum' theme from

Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread Kyle Cardoza
“Mr. Cardoza” makes me look for the warrant in your hand, but yes, I have been working on refactoring default drawing behaviour into the base GSTheme class, to enable better control over theme elements in subclasses. There’s definitely improvements to be made in the theme that would be

Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread Gregory Casamento
Albert, Also, as an aside... I work for Eggplant/Keysight now and I helped Algorridim get their dJay software working on their platform. So, yes, those are 100% legitimate references. GC On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 4:07 PM Gregory Casamento wrote: > Albert, > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 12:23 PM

Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread Gregory Casamento
Albert, On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 12:23 PM Albert Palacios wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to develop a 'modern' looking theme for GNUstep, but I always > end up 'overwriting' base functions in ridiculous ways and finding > obstacles that discourage me. > This is our fault because our

Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread Gregory Casamento
Bruce, On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 10:47 AM bruce wrote: > Riccardo, I can agree with everything you say. I’ve looked at pictures of > gnustep running on mac and windows, and it looks sleek and modern, and > native. > > My experience on unix like does not track with that. It looks brutalistic. >

Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread Albert Palacios
Hi, I have tried to develop a 'modern' looking theme for GNUstep, but I always end up 'overwriting' base functions in ridiculous ways and finding obstacles that discourage me. Especially because I think that when changes are made to the original code, the theme will fail. The themes only

Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread bruce
Riccardo, I can agree with everything you say. I’ve looked at pictures of gnustep running on mac and windows, and it looks sleek and modern, and native. My experience on unix like does not track with that. It looks brutalistic. Not native - it never fits in the desktop. What I hear from most

Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, bruce wrote: > I've tried using libobjc2 with the other runtimes from the linux repo. I > couldn't get it to work, but it sounds like other people have under > certain circumstances. Building libobjc2 can be from easy, "just works" to a nightmare, depending on a platform. Best, of course,

Re: Consider GtkCore as UI

2023-12-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Bruce, bruce wrote: > Gregory, respectfully, I’ve been trying gnustep for the last decade, > waiting for it to be ready, and getting frustrated. During that time The only thing that happens if you wait watching the water flowing of a river is that in theory your enemy will pass along... The only