Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,



> The first, and most obvious, is that GNUstep theming is still very young.
> Apart from Camaleon (does it still work?) and some of Riccardo's themes
> there's nothing out there.
>   
Thank you for citing the effort. It is indeed very young. I was also 
amazed at the little response it got, given the amount of time usually 
spent talking/writing about theming.
My themes are just a beginning because they are pixmap themes that go 
1:1 with Thematic capabilities.

Code themes can bemore powerful but more complex to write, I think we 
should be able to do a good simple scheme by playing with pixmaps and 
colors only.

If you look for something more subtle, look at the "Neos" theme.
> The second, which is a little deeper, is that there's no way to globally
> define defaults.  If I'm out there creating a GNUstep package (and I mostly
> do for Slackware, I just need to get on it for 13.0) there's not way for me
> to set a default, "preferred" theme--which is what the GUI toolkits above
> allow you to do--there is just no way for me to do that.  I know it's been
> brought up a few times in the past, and if I remember correctly it's because
> of the way NSUserDefaults is setup, so (again, in my opinion) that's where
> the problem lies.
>   
From a packager point of you that is understandable. Maybe an init 
script wwhich sets defaults, a bit like windowmaker does?

Riccardo