Re: New features

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> Specifically for the menu item colour I am thinking about making the
> system extension colour list, that is already used in GSToolbarView an
> official GNUstep mechanism, move the code over to NSColor and to add all
> the other colour definitions we have scattered in GNUstep gui (I think
> NSTableView uses some, hints to other places are welcome). That way a
> theme would just need to override one extra colour list.
>
> Is this a feasible approach for you? Or do you see a reason to do things
> differently?
>   

Having a separate color for the "menu bar" and for the menus themselves 
would help also in making a better Windows theme, since WinXP and Vista 
have separate colors for that. Thank you.
> As for GSTaskBar I already replied on the discussion list. What I would
> like to know about the implementation is what change will be required in
> NSApplication and NSWindow. We should try to come up with a generic way
> to handle application icons here, so that we don't need to change our
> gui code the next time somebody comes up with an idea for a task bar tool.
>   
I miss to understand what's really about too.

Riccardo