@Tom, Kai, my hope is that if we make the SWT limitation visible to a broader user base that more people are interested in fixing them / contributing to them.
2013/7/2 Tom Schindl <[email protected]> > 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<http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-chrome-theme#.UdHb6flJN1d>and >> >> https://github.com/jeeeyul/**eclipse-themes/<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<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:pwebster@alumni.**uwaterloo.ca<[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<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<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<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<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> e4-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/e4-dev<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/e4-dev<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev> >
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