Re: Recolorable themes

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:39 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> On Thu, January 5, 2006 1:10 pm, Matthias Clasen said:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:50 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:

> > 27 sounds is a lot. I don't know how you would write a sensible color
> > capplet that allows to tweak 27 colors.
> 
> OK, I had the wrong end of the stick here.
> 
> I think we need at least 4 symbolic colours - a foreground and background
> for both normal and 'entry' widgets. I think most colours could then be
> computed from these (for example, the prelight colour is usually just a
> lighter version of the normal background colour).
> 

That sounds like a reasonable starting point.  A related point of
interest is if the current set of color expressions is good enough
to do these computations in the rc file.

> Would it be possible for themes to be able to suggest alternate named
> schemes?

Thats probably something to be solved between the yet-to-be written
color capplet and the meta-theme file.

Matthias