Hi, have you already tried: export MONO_THEME=clearlooks this looks great.
/alex Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 13:35 schrieb Vladimir Lushnikov: > Hi, > > I finally got around to seeing the WinForms implementation in Linux. > And even when exporting the "nice" theme (export MONO_THEME=nice) - > let's face it, Winforms currently looks awful. If an example is > required, then take a look at > http://www.vladsharp.com/images/prog/winforms_look.png > > But enough complaining. How can it be made better? I don't have any > clue on implementation details, but since WinForms is a canvas-based > implementation, I don't see any reason why it couldn't look as good, > or better, than, say, Swing applications in Java. > (http://www.vladsharp.com/images/prog/swing_look.png) I don't even > know Swing that well, but I do know it looks much better that (e.g.) > the default forms look in Firefox on Linux. Why can't Linux look good? > Well, there are toolkits to change to make the default look look good. > But why can't Mono's Windows.Forms implementation look good? Yes, it > might take time to get a decent look, but can it not be done? > > Regards, > > -- > Vladimir "Vlad#" Lushnikov > http://www.vladsharp.com - Poetry, programming: all in one day's blog > -- --------------------- Alexander Reiter Allentsteigerstr. 11 A-3910 Zwettl Tel.: 02822 / 51657 --------------------- _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
