Re: Fancy GUI

[Andreas Volz <lists brachttal net>]

Am Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:27:59 +0000 schrieb Gareth Foster:

> Hello list,
> 
> What's my best bet for creating something like the following ...
> 
> http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul06/images/focusritesaffiresoft_l.jpg
> 
> I'm literally thinking of chopping up that bitmap to make a UI. I've
> seen mention on planet.gnome.org of toolkits designed for this sort of
> work floating around Gnome land I'm sure, but if GTKmm can do this
> sort of job, its my preference because its nice.
> 
> Note that all the functionality that wants to go behind the UI is
> there to be accessed through DBus, so the UI itself wants to be dumb
> and simple.

I would use default widgets and a customized Gtk pixmap theme. It's
possible to load a theme only in your application independent from all
other apps on your desktop.

regards
Andreas