Re: [RFC] [PATCH]: Icon themability patch for -GUI images/icons

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 1 nov. 04, à 10:27, Fred Kiefer a écrit :

> Great to learn that I am wrong and somebody is actually using this 
> stuff. And I must say that I like the round corners of your boxes and 
> buttons. This is code that would be needed in GNUstep itself for 
> MacOSX support, here round borders are there in the standard classes. 
> With the code in place in GUI, theming would just need to switch a few 
> attributes for the border appearance. Have you thought about 
> contributing this code?

Yes, but I'm waiting to clean up things and have a more "stable" api. 
Once it's done (I will implement a few themes for checking that, MacOSX 
and Windows for example) I will commit whatever changes is needed (most 
of them will probably just be new methods in GSDrawFunctions).
Apart from that, well, the rounding boxes are quite easy to do; on 
MacOSX they are just pixmaps anyway, but we can do them 
programmatically.
I also have a method that do a path filling properly (eg using 
addClip). It works with backart very nicely, I'm wondering what'll be 
the result with back-xlib (I guess it will work for square paths, but 
for more complex ones I don't know, I will need to test).
Same for drawing gradients, it only works with backart at the moment. 
We can have fall-back methods (doing a gradient method "by hand" isn't 
exactly difficult), but ideally it would be nice to have a gradient 
method in back-xlib. If I can i'll try to do something for it.

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Nicolas Roard
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