Hey folks, Sorry for jumping in late in this thread, but if you have a look at what Enlightenment is doing, youll see some interesting ideas on all this. A few points, 1. E17, ETK and EWL themes are all in separate 'edj' files, that are basically image and program containers. As such, they're actually binary themes. What this allows is the theme 'engine' to be built around the images so all animations, transitions and actions can be enclosed in the theme itself. 2. In E17 itself, the widget layout is entirely dependant on what the theme creator does. This has been used to create some rather drastic themes. And appearance changes. The widget layout is set by the program creator with EWL and ETK (the 2 different toolkits based on EFL) 3. The edj file can be decompiled with easy for editing and re-themeing.
It would be nice if KDE and Gnome camps could start using Edje, but thats wishful thinking. :) Me, Ive created themes for E17, ETK and soon EWL and they really all allow the themer to be as artistic as possible. Ive tried making a GTK theme but couldnt find an engine that suited what I wanted and thus, stopped after changing all the images. Please keep other desktops in mind and not limit the discussion to KDE and Gnome. Thanks, Toma _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
