Re: GTK-3 themes: cocoa theme proposal

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

you probably want to ask on gtk-devel-list.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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On 12 November 2013 20:24, Jérôme Lambourg <lambourg adacore com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I’m not sure if this is the right list for this email, feel free to blame me (and indicate me where to post 
> it) if I’m not in the right place. I thought first to post in on the osx-specific list, but this is a more 
> general concern for gtk I think.
>
> I started implementing a native theme for OSX using Cocoa primitives (NSCells mainly, plus other 
> OS-specific APIs). To do so, I took the win32 theme example, and so patched the theme directly into gtk 
> itself (plus a bit of enhancements to gdk, but that’s ok as this is in the quartz-specific part) to handle 
> so-called cssimages for the widgets backgrounds (redirected to drawing primitives of the OS), specific 
> metrics in the form of -gtk-quartz-metric as well as colors in the form of -gtk-quartz-color(<parameter>).
>
> In my opinion that’s a lot of hacking directly into gtk, and this does not look right. Are there any plans 
> to allow theme engines to perform this kind of customisation ? Something I missed ? Is there a better way 
> to allow me to perform those os-specific css-like values that are: color definitions, metrics for widgets, 
> fonts name and size, and widgets background images ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments.
> Kind regards,
> - Jerome

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