Re: UME theme and related tools

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:48:13 -0700

I think the theme SDK should provide a single approach/tool set for all themeable images, whether they are gtk, hildon, window manager or icons. (Not just widgets, as it seems to do now.)

This would enable third-parties to easily create a whole theme without having to understand those distinctions.

Perhaps the good work with the template.png and related tools could be readily expanded to include all themeable images by using multiple png files:
 * one for all themeable images in the UME base
 * one for each application

Perhaps the home area background is themeable but isn't templatized png, since its just a single big file.

This approach would bring all themeable images under control, so that a new comprehensive list of images with their locations doesn't have to be created every time a custom theme needs to be created. It would also enable pulling together custom sets of applications for a distribution and themeing them.

When I made a list of all such base customizable UME images a month or so ago, it included  gtk, hildon, and window manager called images.

Kyle


Bill Filler wrote: 
Thanks for the clarification Ken.

On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Kenneth Wimer wrote:

  
On Friday 21 September 2007 16:44:10 Bill Filler wrote:
    
Sorry if I am asking a dumb question here as I haven't been following
the specific details, but I want to make sure I understand something.
Hildon has recently documented their themeing support (see approriate
links on http://live.gnome.org/Hildon). Are we basing the UME
themeing on this and making improvements? If so, great and hopefully
we will be merging the stuff upstream so that when future versions of
Hildon themeing come out we can use them with our improvements. If
not, how come? Thanks

      
Yes, we are using the hildon themeing tools and infrastructure. The  
main thing
we are changing in this aspect is the layout file which defines  
which parts
we use and where they are located in the template.png file.

Note, however that the themeing discussed here does not include  
icons. When we
talk about hildon themeing we are discussing the style of the
widgets/controls themselves, not the icons which appear on/in them.

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Ken

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