Re: GUADEC Theming API meeting minutes

["Alberto Ruiz" <aruiz gnome org>]

2008/7/14 Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:42 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this is a summary of the issues discussed and the roadmap about a new
>> theming API for Gtk+ at GUADEC:
>>
>
>> Roadmap:
>>   * Create a CSS engine to play with it and see how far can we go with
>> flexibility in the artist side (Andreas to make mockups of the new
>> syntax and figure out how to implement it afterwards)
>
> I hope this will include being able to specify sizes/spacing relative to
> font height and x-height, em and ex?

Don't hope, just help us to write the code :) There's nothing working
yet, just plans.

>
> Oh, and spacing between widgets shouldn't be a fixed part of layout. It
> should all be defined in themes. No more studying the HIG and manual
> labour to get that right. 100% consistency and flexibility instead.

That works belongs to Glade/GtkBuilder, themes define style not
layout. Having HIG values by default on dialogs, buttonboxes et al is
another discussion.

-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz