On May 14, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Gary Chambers <gazzagu...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Please do bear in mind having multiple themes concurrently in use. > Whilst we have a theme for the devolopment environment, instances of > applications can have their own etc. Ok we will :) > > Regards, Gary > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Benjamin > To: Discusses Development of Pharo > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 4:22 PM > Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] about theme and friends > > Ok, my bad :) > > This is a massive refactoring, but indeed, it may be cool :) > Ben > > On May 14, 2013, at 5:18 PM, stephane ducasse <stephane.duca...@free.fr> > wrote: > >> >> On May 14, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.ph...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The problem is the overlapping. >>> For settings, different project do not define the same settings. >>> >>> But for tools, it's different >>> By example, Browser, and Nautilus will try to register to default browser. >> >> I'm not talking about this level. >> No registration about tools. UITheme does not deal with that. >> >> The current theme should push to all the widgets that the defaultColor is >> blue. >> >> >> >>> >>> Ben >>> >>> On May 14, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> esteban >>>> >>>> I discussed with damien and I think that now I got the solution. In fact >>>> the architecture should be the same than the >>>> one of settings. >>>> >>>> Every widget should have custom hooks and setter, getter and default >>>> values. >>>> The hooks should be annotated or registered seomwhere. >>>> Then the widget code simply uses the hooks normally. >>>> >>>> Now a theme changes should push new values onto these hooks. >>>> >>>> This will lead to a flow that is totally different. Nobody should write >>>> UITheme builder or even Smalltalk ui theme. >>>> I will try to build a small experiment but I'm sure that this is the >>>> solution >>>> >>>> Nobody call settings nowadays (as it was the case with Preferences in the >>>> past). >>>> >>>> Stef
