Re: stupid suggestion about themes

["david::" <voiser gmail com>]

Hi everyone

> (Am I confused, or are your two paragraphs suggesting two *different* things:
> one suggesting the same theme everyplace no matter where it was run from, and
> the other suggesting the use of host-dependent themes?)

I have not explained correctly, I'm sorry. I was talking about what
you say as "host-dependent themes".

Maybe the matter should _begin_ with this other question:

Could be possible to have _different_ applications (no matter where
they actually run) with _different_ themes in the _same_ X server?
Something like

http://cofio.gul.uc3m.es/~voiser/themes.png

OK that's not a REAL desktop, that's two screenshots joint together,
but you get the idea :)

OK I hope I have explained better, but you understood me, anyway.

well, maybe one day will be possible. thanks




On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:02:59 -0500, Valdis Kletnieks vt edu
<Valdis Kletnieks vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:07:16 +0100, "david::" said:
> 
> > Imagine A and B have both of them Gtk with different themes. When you
> > launch an application in B from A, you see that application's widgets
> > with A's theme, not B's theme.
> 
> The Gtk application is running as an X client on B, and has no reasonable
> way of asking what theme is in use on A.  It's even quite possible that
> the theme in use on A isn't installed on B (for instance, my laptop has
> a personally-hacked-up version of the Ganymede theme - which won't be found
> on any of the many machines I might launch a remote application on).
> 
> > Maybe you find useful that every application that runs on A had A's
> > theme and every application that runs on B had B's theme, no matter
> > where these application were shown. Imagine a desktop with several
> > windows, local applications running on a white theme and remote
> > applications running on a dark theme. All in the same X server.
> 
> This in fact is how things usually end up working - but only because you
> have the local machine using a white theme and all the remote boxes using
> a dark theme.  If you were to actually login on the console of the remote
> box, it would still be using a dark theme (unless you did some additional
> magic to change the theme yourself - that detection is outside the scope
> of Gtk itself, and belongs in the Gnome/whatever window manager).
> 
> Now imagine a scenario where you need more distinction than "local" and "remote".
> For instance, I on a regular basis have applications from a half-dozen different
> systems open at once on my laptop... :)
> 
> (Am I confused, or are your two paragraphs suggesting two *different* things:
> one suggesting the same theme everyplace no matter where it was run from, and
> the other suggesting the use of host-dependent themes?)
> 
> 
>