Re: Themes Themes... Drool time?

[Jason Gilbert <jason scott net>]

Joel Dillon wrote:
> 
> > ALL drawing code is outside of gtk (currently i have only moved butotn
> > drawing code out). the theme contains all the code to do this - so gtk
> > doesn't have any drawing code anymore. thsi makes gtkbuton about
> > 400 lines shorter- and makes it cleaner. the theme library contains the
> > drawing code - if no theme is specified the default theme library is
> > loaded to do the drawing - which loosk just like what you have now.

Well, I guess what I meant was (this could probably be gathered from the
src) say someone writes a new theme, but only decides to do the drawing
code in their theme and want everything else to use the default.  Is it
a requirement that a theme .so must implement every drawing routine?

>   It seems better to have a 'default' drawing code built into gtk
> in case loading the .so fails for some reason (library corruption,
> dodgy paths or whatever). Putting everything in .so's adds something
> else to go wrong ;)

good point.  Gtk should probably be able to exist on its own w/o any
additional .so necessary.

BTW, is it planned for the themability to be merged into the main gtk
dist?

jason

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