Re: gnome-themes branched

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 30 Mar 2006, at 20:42, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> --- Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM> wrote:
> > implement a low contrast
> > gtk engine to cut down the number of icon files that
> > need maintaining.
>
> BTW, what actually is a gtk engine?

Basically, it's the code that draws the gtk widgets onto the screen.

If you want a theme that looks sufficiently different to gtk's  
default appearance that it can't be achieved just by changing icons  
or tweaking other parameters in a gtkrc file, you can write your own  
engine to draw things differently, e.g. to have gradient shading on  
buttons or that sort of thing.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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