I agree with Tom. But IMHO a dark theme does not make any sense at all as long as the native SWT widgets cannot by styled dark.
>... without coming up with a Gradient-API and this IMHO dirty image workaround. This was meant to be a prototype to get at least radial gradients on the screen, because SWT still does not support radial gradients. Kai -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Schindl Sent: Dienstag, 2. Juli 2013 10:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [e4-dev] Plan wiki for Luna The big problem with a Dark-Theme is SWT which is not able to theme e.g. Buttons, Table-Headers, Menus. I've always said and I'm still convinced that the way we apply CSS on widgets is wrong. IMHO the CSS-Engine should do the selector calculation to assemble a style-string for a widget and SWT has to provide an API setCSSStyle(String) to accept this string and transform it to the native calls (which e.g. could be css-style stuff once more - e.g. IIRC Gtk does have such a feature). This way we could even get radial gradients, ... without coming up with a Gradient-API and this IMHO dirty image workaround. Tom On 01.07.13 23:19, Doug Schaefer wrote: > I know our UX team was hesitant to use a dark theme. It looks cool but > doesn't necessarily help productivity. Would be good to try it though > and see, that's the beauty of switchable themes :). > > *From: *Lars Vogel > *Sent: *Monday, July 1, 2013 3:55 PM > *To: *E4 Project developer mailing list *Reply To: *E4 Project > developer mailing list > *Subject: *Re: [e4-dev] Plan wiki for Luna > > > "Dark Themes" seem to be very attractive to developers, for example in > the popular Sublime editor or the IntelliJ IDE. Would be nice to have > one in Eclipse also (for all the cool developers out there ;-) ). > > > 2013/7/1 Sopot Çela <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > For details on the chrome theme > > http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-chrome-theme#.UdHb6flJN1d and > https://github.com/jeeeyul/eclipse-themes/ You can see that there is > a certain interest in it. Based on > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=386470 we have also > the blessing of the contributor. > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Sopot Çela <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I second that, especially the Chrome theme. There is widespread > consensus that it is a very nice theme. > > > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Lars Vogel <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I think new CSS themes for the IDE would be a nice item. > Based on an offline discussion with Sopot I suggest a theme > similar to Chrome and also a Dark Theme. A minimum thing > would be to reduce the default whitespace used for a > PartSashContainer. > > > 2013/6/27 Paul Webster <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > At today's meeting we're going to talk about our > plan/general direction for Luna. I've put up a general > draft at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Plan/4.4 > > While we're editing it, please post any suggestions you > have to the mailing list so we can update the draft > (instead of all editing it at once). After the meeting > we can update it individually and then review it again. > > Later > Paul > > > -- > Paul Webster > Hi floor. Make me a sammich! - GIR > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > _______________________________________________ e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev _______________________________________________ e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev
