2010/3/30 Johann Haarhoff <[email protected]> > Hi All > > I am currently working on porting WINGs to cairo.
Well, thank you for the work! > At this stage we > also have the option to change the way WINGs looks. > > The legacy Alfredo and Dan left us has some OSX Aqua-ish looking > buttons in the cairo branch (run wtest to see). I saw it. > Since I have to do the > drawing code for all the widgets anyway, we have three options: > > 1) Try and copy the current (next branch) WINGs look exactly, but just > do the drawing with cairo. I must say the current WINGs does look a > bit dated. > Is there the possibility to always have this option? As a choice in WPrefs for example, or at the configure time. > > 2) Continue with the current (cairo branch) OSX Aqua-ish look. Since > Alfredo and Dan only left us with a look for the buttons, we will have > to come up with designs for the rest (scrollbars, panels, etc etc) > ourselves. If someone feels like doing mockups for these, please step > up. > Years ago I used wmaker plus GTK apps with a OSX theme. But IMHO the OSX way is not the better way. > > 3) Choose a GTK or QT theme we all like and try and copy that. Because > WINGs is not themable this will have to be pretty neutral so it works > for everybody. > So that seems to be the better choice. Now I use wmaker plus KDE/QT apps. The default QT theme is a modern theme, and look smooth with wmaker stuff. Maybe there is another solution. Or maybe not. Years ago, in a utopic odissey to have a theme for all applications, i tried out GNUStep, with Camaelon (http://www.roard.com/camaelon/). Well... But WINGs have nothing to do with GNUStep, right? -- « Invento ergo sum » Michele Barbiero aka Shuren @ irc.azzurra.org [G]reedy[F]ly @ UseNet
