Re: GEP-2 Theme Sets (aka Metathemer)

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 31 Oct 2002, Dave Bordoley wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 08:43, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 07:41, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure how the UI would work, but there has to be some solution,
> > even if it's just 'and change the themes for app X to the theme for app
> > X with the same name'. [In other words, 'if OOo has a BlueCurve theme,
> > use it, otherwise, use defaults.'] At _least_ that level of
> > functionality should be possible.
> 
> Louie we're saying the same thing :) And to expand on your point, in the
> event that the user chooses the "controls theme" in their themeset for
> which an OO.o equivalent does not exists, xsettings provides a method of
> passing color information to an app so that it will at least be somewhat
> consistent with the overall desktop look.
> 

exactly how do you propose the app (whetever OOo or not) would know about
this if you didn't put it into another xsetting?

> 
> dave
> 

	Sander

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