RE: Win32 themes

["Etienne Fortin" <etienne fortin sympatico ca>]

But that's exactly what other are saying Gnome is doing, take into account the theme used by GTK to make it look better. 

It would look better because now there's a big discrepancy between the look of the app, and the look of the title bar. You feel there's something wrong. If the title bar could be drawn by GTK or some sort of layer between it and Win32, then it would look more integrated "with the app".

Besides, I don't see the reason behind theming the app, and not theming the little thing that is the title bar. It is integrally part of the app, and the two should look the same or else you just feel there's two things going on, and the two things don't talk at all.



-----Message d'origine-----
De : Michael Torrie [mailto:torriem chem byu edu] 
Envoyé : Monday, February 06, 2006 16:19
À : Etienne Fortin
Cc : Valdis Kletnieks vt edu; gtk-list gnome org
Objet : Re: Win32 themes

Etienne Fortin wrote:
> Couldn't that behavior be emulated on Win32? It would sure make the GTK apps look better on that platform.

How would this make gtk apps look better?  The idea is you want gtk apps 
to integrate by naking them look like a native win32 app.  Thus you want 
the title bar (window title) and decorations to be normal windows ones.

> 
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Valdis Kletnieks vt edu [mailto:Valdis Kletnieks vt edu] 
> Envoyé : Monday, February 06, 2006 14:08
> À : Etienne Fortin
> Cc : 'Goran Rakić'; gtk-list gnome org
> Objet : Re: Win32 themes 
> 
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:58:22 EST, Etienne Fortin said:
> 
>>Hmmm, I see. But that's strange because on the GTK themes
>>screenshot I looked at, the title bar seems to be changed also. How does
>>it work?
> 
> 
> Many of the screenshots were probably taken on a desktop running Gnome,
> which follows and uses the currently installed .gtkrc to find its theme.
> 
> So what you're seeing is "the app uses the current theme to draw the actual
> window, and then the window manager uses the same theme to draw the titlebar".
> 
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