Re: GTK+ Theming improvements

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:26:39PM +0200, Lieven van der Heide wrote:
> As for the general rendering of widgets, I think the current way of
> letting the widget itself do the drawing, using a bunch of primitives
> (ie. boxes, frames, etc.), and then letting the theme engines theme
> just those primitives, instead of the whole widget, has shown to not
> really work. What most theme engines seem to be doing now, is kind of
> reverse engeneer those draw calls, and then render the theming in
> their own way, which often is quite different from what the widget
> actually thought is was drawing.

Maybe this asks for 3 layers: logical widget, abstract drawing ops to  
use and finally the actual theming for said drawing ops?

widget, v-architecture (v for visual) and style :)


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