Hi all, just few words about theme/skin concepts in Brick.
A skin defines the way a widget is internally composed. The Datepicker is a good example, you can just compare the one in iOS and the one in jQuery, they don't use the same UI components internally and provide a completely different user experience: it is the role of the Skin. The styles are graphical options related to a particular skin. They can be colors, cornerRadii, fonts,... A theme defined a set of consistent skins and related style values for the whole widgets hierarchy. For example, the Material Design is a theme that define both skin and styles to use for all widgets. I think the notion of Palette is interesting to define theme variants without to be forced to create a new theme. Maybe, as a first step, a Palette can be simply something like a QPalette (Qt) which can be used in themes instead of static color values. The current style/theme implementation in Bloc/Brick is at an early stage and don't reflect exactly what it will be. I made a first working implementation of the CSS2+ model as a proof of concept but this doesn't mean that users will be forced to use CSS to style UIs. But i think we have to provide this kind of facility and the concepts under CSS open a lot of possibilities (cascading styles is one of them). Styling and theming are difficult subjects, many ways remain to be explored. Regards, Glenn. ----- Glenn Cavarlé -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/let-s-talk-about-themes-and-GLMBrickThemer-tp4908930p4910826.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
