Re: Themes Themes... Drool time?

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

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> 
> I disagree that the default gtk theme drawing code should be linked
> directly into the gtk library. Perhaps this could be an installation
> option, but it should not be mandatory. There's no reason users of the
> pixmap theme, the win95 theme, the mac theme or whatever should have
> to pay for having the native gtk code in memory, any more than the
> other way around. To support a reasonably defaulting behavior, though,
> it would have to be possible to mix and match drawing functions from
> multiple drawing plugins.

  True. Perhaps it should be left to the individual installer
whether to make the decision?
 
> Also, to avoid future confusion, I propose the following terminology:
> 
> * "drawing plugin" - one of the dynamically loadable libraries that
> implements a look or set of looks.
> 
> * "theme" - a set if styles for widgets, including assignments of what
> drawing plugins to use for which widget, and settings of appropriate
> style options.

  Makes sense to me.

	Jo