Re: Theme Engine, What is it?

["Diego Jacobi" <jacobidiego gmail com>]

You can show a windows with title bar hidden and draw your own rare
title bar as a container widget, also your buttons will be nonstandard.
You
will end making all of those widgets by your self (as all media player
does for the main window) which will lead to a lots of possible drawing
errors and maybe you wont be using gtk at all unless you use gtk for
special windows like configuration.

If you want multiform skins you will need also transparencies.
If
you just want themes then you have to make a sub-titlebar-widget which
should draw the borders and title and leave inside the container to add
more gtk boxes, think a customized gtk.Frame().

For multiform skins you will need to define an abstract base class
with all the actions you will allow to perform on the main interface or
skin, think gtk.Action().
Then you will have to develop a way to
have overlapeable widgets with custom-non-square mouse areas, think a
sort of gtk.EventBox(), those image-widgets would have the animations
you want, like changing the image when mouse is on top and would be
child of the background-image-widget and maybe also on top of other
widgets.

All of that makes a lot of complex functions and widgets, and you
will loose a lot of time developing it. Open source programmers tends
to dedicate the time to good and well working functionalities and easy
and standard-looking UIs.

I hate skinable media players like winamp which are a crap as a
productive software. Winamp users normally doesnt understand why it
sucks. I havent found a better player than amarok yet, i hope bangee
one day to become one.

But also i think that the normal gtk-theme used in all distros has too much big buttons, i hate it too.

Cheers