On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Toma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
What kind of code is there in edj? Is it portable between arches? If not, why not use .so? > 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) Most theme creators are not programmers and I believe that's a good thing. > 3. The edj file can be decompiled with easy for editing and re-themeing. How often do you see Photoshop masters running around and decompiling files? ;) > Please keep other desktops in mind and not limit the discussion to KDE > and Gnome. Sure. -- Patryk Zawadzki PLD Linux Distribution _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
