Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-03 Thread andres
El Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:57:04 The DarkMaster escribió: Andre's idea looks very interesting to me (I never mentioned, by the way, that EWl or anything else should be reduced to something like GTK. In my OpenGEU themes I just create GTk themes which look similar to certain E17 themes to

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread andres
@notdirectedtoanyoneinparticular: Using Edje to theme a constricted widget library like GTK or QT would be a complete waste of potential. The only way you will have E, EWL and ETK looking *the same* will be creating yet another bland constricted library. In web design consistency (or unity)

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread The DarkMaster
Andre's idea looks very interesting to me (I never mentioned, by the way, that EWl or anything else should be reduced to something like GTK. In my OpenGEU themes I just create GTk themes which look similar to certain E17 themes to solve the integration issue). Hope to see any other new about it

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Andreoli
Michael Jennings ha scritto: On Monday, 31 March 2008, at 20:50:20 (+0100), The DarkMaster wrote: @Michael: I respect your point of view, but; @All: I am just saying that the big difference in all of this toolkits's customization possibilities is just a game stopper for the majority of

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread andres
El Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:57:04 The DarkMaster escribió: Andre's idea looks very interesting to me (I never mentioned, by the way, that EWl or anything else should be reduced to something like GTK. Oh. I didn't meant to say you wanted that. My point was that complete unity among different

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread dan sinclair
andres wrote: El Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:57:04 The DarkMaster escribió: Andre's idea looks very interesting to me (I never mentioned, by the way, that EWl or anything else should be reduced to something like GTK. Oh. I didn't meant to say you wanted that. My point was that complete unity

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread andres
dj2 wrote: Ewl themes don't have a 'label' text portion of the button. The button has a child label widget which is the text. well, that's not important, each theme file (theme_ewl.edj, theme_etk.edj) uses the elements as needed, the end result will be the same from the user's point of view.

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread andres
El Tuesday 01 April 2008 18:17:01 dan sinclair escribió: The thing is, you aren't gaining anything. The themer still has to theme everything twice. All you have is a basic set of images they reference. Which they could have, and just copy into the themes anyway. That depends on what the themer

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread dan sinclair
andres wrote: El Tuesday 01 April 2008 18:17:01 dan sinclair escribió: The thing is, you aren't gaining anything. The themer still has to theme everything twice. All you have is a basic set of images they reference. Which they could have, and just copy into the themes anyway. That depends on

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread Jose Gonzalez
andres wrote: Ok, my idea would be something like this. Split themes in two, a elements.edj file and a theme_ewl.edj, theme_etk.edj, etc. file. I think I covered all the necessary elements (I checked the test apps from each toolkit) but feel free to extend it as you wish. ...

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread andres
El Tuesday 01 April 2008 18:33:22 dan sinclair escribió: I think this is a lot of effort to save the themer the extra 20 minutes it will take to change the images in the 3 theme files instead of just one. This covers much more than images. Textures are groups for a reason. Most textures will

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:12:24 -0300 andres [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: dj2 wrote: Ewl themes don't have a 'label' text portion of the button. The button has a child label widget which is the text. well, that's not important, each theme file (theme_ewl.edj, theme_etk.edj) uses the elements

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:33:22 -0400 dan sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: what you want is a gtk theme engine - and a qt theme engine that can load and use .edj files - it will be tough work, ut thats is what u want. then they can follow a scheme of using gfx from them and layout. the problem is

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread dan sinclair
andres wrote: El Tuesday 01 April 2008 18:33:22 dan sinclair escribió: I think this is a lot of effort to save the themer the extra 20 minutes it will take to change the images in the 3 theme files instead of just one. This covers much more than images. Textures are groups for a reason. Most

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread andres
@dan: Allow me start over. I made the mistake of being too specific beforehand. The original problem was E/EWL/ETK (and GTK/QT) applications appeareance being inconsistent in distributions like openGEU. My suggestion is to reuse some design elments, a font color here, a background texture

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread Jose Gonzalez
dan sinclair wrote: To what end? What's the point of tying them together like this? It would be better, in the long run, to just have a single widget library instead of 3. The 'one true way' of widgetry with the one true mechanism for theming, leading to the possibility of a

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread dan sinclair
Jose Gonzalez wrote: dan sinclair wrote: To what end? What's the point of tying them together like this? It would be better, in the long run, to just have a single widget library instead of 3. The 'one true way' of widgetry with the one true mechanism for theming,

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-04-01 Thread Jose Gonzalez
dan sinclair wrote: The 'one true way' of widgetry with the one true mechanism for theming, leading to the possibility of a uniform lookfeel for 'all' apps? Maybe. But wether 1 or 3 or 15 widget libs, it's really the one(s) that have apps written for them that count - and

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-31 Thread Sthithaprajna Garapaty
I think the solution for this is to have the theme creator create themes for everything: E, EWL, ETK, etc.. and pack them all into one .edj file And then have the theme configuration module modified (or cloned) so that it also sets the ewl and etk themes at the same time. If ewl/etk lets you do

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-31 Thread The DarkMaster
I think almost everyone is understimating the problem. This is a very bad issue only Enlightenment has and a lot people asks why does this happen, even in our OpenGEU FOrums. Even creting EWL, ETK, etc. themes is really something bad a user has to do. Once you create an E17 theme, it should be one

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Jennings
On Monday, 31 March 2008, at 18:21:57 (+0100), The DarkMaster wrote: I think almost everyone is understimating the problem. This is a very bad issue only Enlightenment has and a lot people asks why does this happen, even in our OpenGEU FOrums. Even creting EWL, ETK, etc. themes is really

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-31 Thread dan sinclair
The DarkMaster wrote: I think almost everyone is understimating the problem. This is a very bad issue only Enlightenment has and a lot people asks why does this happen, even in our OpenGEU FOrums. Even creting EWL, ETK, etc. themes is really something bad a user has to do. Once you create an

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-31 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:01 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:39:14 -0400 dan sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: The DarkMaster wrote: I think almost everyone is understimating the problem. This is a very bad issue only

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Jennings
On Monday, 31 March 2008, at 20:26:51 (+0200), Dave Andreoli wrote: From the first line of the home page of e: Enlightenment is a window manager. Enlightenment is a desktop shell. Desktop shell is not meant to imply the same thing as desktop environment. That's why it was written as shell and

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Jennings
On Monday, 31 March 2008, at 20:50:20 (+0100), The DarkMaster wrote: @Michael: I respect your point of view, but; @All: I am just saying that the big difference in all of this toolkits's customization possibilities is just a game stopper for the majority of people. Of course, the masses wish

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-31 Thread The DarkMaster
Yeah Michael, I think we agree on the entire line now! As for the responsibility of creating a distro for the masses based on Enlightenment, sure I get the responsibility, in fact I participated to this discussion to see how many people agreed with my point of view and try and understand if

[E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-30 Thread Lukasz
First sorry for my English. I am a newcomer and I'd like to help in this project. But I have some question: I found that e17 theme is e17 theme only, that after applying theme other that default, any other EFL app is looking like default theme. I'm a little confused with it. Is that true ??

Re: [E-devel] Unified theme for apps

2008-03-30 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On 30 Mar 2008 14:01:02 +0200, Lukasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First sorry for my English. I am a newcomer and I'd like to help in this project. But I have some question: I found that e17 theme is e17 theme only, that after applying theme other that default, any other EFL app is