Re: Windows theme in main distribution?

["Dom Lachowicz" <cinamod hotmail com>]

> Hi,
>
> I think you forgot to CC Raymond?

Maybe. He saw this original message. Anyway, he's CC'd now.

> > 1) Raymond needs a Gnome CVS account
>
> This is easy enough. We should do that immediately if you want - there
> are instructions on www.gnome.org somewhere that I always lose the link
> to.

Yeah, didn't figure it'd be a problem.

> > 2) Wimp is relatively immature. Will GTK's "long" release schedule 
> hamper
> > us, or will or short schedules hamper GTK?
>
> If there's a lot of work still in Wimp and you think it's important to
> release more often than GTK+, it may well make sense to let it "cook" a
> bit more before including it.

It's not really a matter of instability or anything - just could use a bit 
more polish in certain obscure-ish areas. I suppose that we could continue 
to release Wimp often, but have some sort of "stable" milestones that were 
included in the GTK distro. Would that be acceptable to you guys?

> > 3) Wimp can't build without WinXP. We might take steps to correct this 
> if
> > need be, perhaps similarly to how Mozilla did it
>
> Either that or I think a configure check that disabled Wimp support on
> older Windows would be fine (just conditionally compile on XP only).

Right... we'll need to make a MinGW based build system too - we're using 
MSVC Makefiles now. MinGW doesn't have the constants used by the WinXP 
UXTHEME DLL, which is the same reason Wimp won't compile on !XP. I'll fix 
this up; kill two birds with one stone.

Wimp runs fine on !XP (via the magic of dlopen) - just on WinXP we can use 
the Win32 theme engine to draw a lot of stuff. Otherwise, it's basically 
Raleigh, but actually using the native Win32 colors, metrics, fonts, etc...

Thanks,
Dom

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