Re: The concept from MUI (Amiga)

[Joel Dillon <emily cornholio new ox ac uk>]

> I donīt know how to make it real "border"-sensitiv to events. Any ideas
> ?
> perhaps the shape-extension could help ? (i donīt know at the moment)

  Yep - shaped windows are only sensitive to events within the shape.
Unfortunately there's not much good material on the extension - I
recommend looking at something like the Enlightenment or asclock source.
 
> So widgets are a set of styles or specific graphical "hard-coded" stuff
> like
> sound-equilizers. So the configuration goes :

  In what sense 'hard-coded'?

> > ->
> > ->  Another thing to do, is that all tools should check a central
> > ->  configuration file.
> > ->  (for example .gtkrc in $home) so that new installed tools will always
> > ->  look like
> > ->  the user configured his GTK to default. But any specific tool should be
> > ->  reconfigurable to
> > ->  another look.
> > 
> > Yup.. thats the idea.. the theme/settings are "global"

  Is the plan to extend .gtkrc to handle themes, then? (I'm interested
in this because I'm working with some other people on an LGPL'd Qt
and want to make it understand gtk configuration as far as possible)
 
> ofcourse, you as the user once decided to tell how your applications
> should look like,
> and after that every gtk-tool (gnome-tool) will present its
> user-interface in this style

  How about different appearances for different apps, or is that not
necessary?
> 
> i just wanted to start writting a new widget called button2 as a
> test-bed to implement the
> first real styles and to have it seperated

  I have some code (written for the free qt project) you can look
at if you want. Email me if you want me to send it to you. It's C++
(obviously) and uses imlib. It's pretty crude, I was just hacking to
see how easy it would be to implement.

	Jo