I agree, I think that is exactly the kind of tool needed for our
customers to feel confident about doing their own theming.

 

Cheers,

Waldo

 

Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro,
Oregon

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kyle.nitzsche
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:48 AM
To: Bill Filler
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: UME theme and related tools

 

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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