2009/1/19 Benjamin Berg <[email protected]>

> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 05:19 +0000, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > I'm trying to get a feel for how hard it would be to write a tool
> > similar to the Java Swing theme Napkin:
> > http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/
>
> I have thought about writing this like two years ago, but never got
> around to actually start it unfortunately.
>
> Getting something basic working should not be that hard to do. But I bet
> it can get as complicated as one wants :-)
>
> > I suspect that this can't be done with an existing gtk-engine. Is there
> > any documentation around on how to write a GTK+ engine?
>
> That is correct. You won't find much documentation, but you could start
> with a look at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes. Other
> than that I would suggest looking into the GtkStyle/GtkRcStyle
> documentation and heading around to #gnome-art.
>
I'm completely ignorant with regard to theming, but why can't this be done
with a traditional GtkEngine? (Isn't the CSS engine customizable enough to
make this work?)

>
> Benjamin
>
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-Natan
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