Thank you all for the information. Is there currently an open-source application created with GnuStep that runs with a native look-and-feel on Windows, Linux and Mac? It would be nice if there were some reference point.
-deech On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 27 Jun 2011, at 08:57, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 06/27/11 03:01, Gregory Casamento wrote: >>> Riccardo, >>> >>> >>> 1) Cleanly switching from theme to theme when in-window menus are involved. >> Yes, this is especially noticeable when native in-windows menus are used, >> but that goes along with 3) >>> 2) Unloading theme images between themes. When theme A loaded if >>> theme B doesn't have images for some of the widgets then theme A's >>> images are used instead of the default theme's images as may have been >>> intended. >> Afaik, unloading was implemented by Richard, but somehow it doesn't work >> (anymore). > > Yes ... eighteen months ago IIRC, but there have probably been a lot of > changes in theming that I haven't been involved with since then... > The basic principle was simple. > When you load a theme, all the images for that theme are installed. > When you unload a theme, all the images for the default theme are installed > (which means all system images) > When you change themes, you have a sequence of unloading the old theme (which > cleans out its images) and loading the new. > > Now, it's possible to have glitches with this caused by code outside the > theming system ... if code makes a *copy* of a system image (rather than > retaining it), and caches and re-uses that copy. There may be some such bugs > in odd apps or even odd places in the gui library. If so, they should either: > > 1. not copy the system images, just use them as required .... the best option > unless we *know* there is a performance issue. > 2. where they must do something like keeping a scaled or otherwise modified > copy of a system image for performance, they should have the code observe > theme loading notifications and regenerate their cache when a new theme is > loaded ... this is a general principle of theme aware software, without which > no theming system can work properly. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
