Re: [Usability]Eugenia's UI review/mockup

[Christopher Warner <zanee kernelcode com>]

Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:

> > Specific changes you want that you can't do with themes?
> >    
>
> I am not going to list all the 25-30 changes I made there to ask if
> something can be really done via a simple theme, or via real C code, or via
> GTK+ changes. I do not program for GTK+ so I am not very familiar with it.
> For example, can you via a simple theme, to make the File/Edit/Help menu
> showing in the shot, have the same color as the buttons and the rest of the
> widgets, and have these 4 pixels off in its corners, making it look like an
> individual view?
> Honestly, I am more familiar with the Qt themes and code, and I know for
> example, that to change the border colors of each system widget you want you
> need to write serious code, and you can't even change the color of the
> non-selected tabs (QT decides for its color, based on the color of the
> selected tab). Except if you are using bitmaps of course, which is  not
> something I would like to use...
>
> Eugenia
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The problem with the above is that basically everything gets sticky 
unless someone comes up with a theme format. A couple of threads ago I 
talked about this;  everything else is just a hack.

-Christopher Warner