Re: Theme patriation
- From: "Jacob Kroon" <jacob kroon gmail com>
- To: "Rui Tiago Cação Matos" <tiagomatos gmail com>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Theme patriation
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:52:41 +0100
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos
<tiagomatos gmail com> wrote:
> 2008/10/26 Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>:
>> 1. The window border theme parsing and displaying code should live in a
>> library. (It already does, but its ABI is allegedly private, though in
>> practice Compiz binds against it anyway. For this we will need to make
>> it public.)
>>
>> 2. When an app creates a GtkWindow, GTK will draw the borders as
>> appropriate by calling this library.
>
> But why keep using metacity themes? GTK could handle the window frame
> like every other widget using the main GTK theme. I fail to see the
> usefulness of having 2 themes to style a window. If backwards
> compatibility is required then maybe a GTK module with access to that
> metacity library could be loaded into all apps.
IMO decorating a window belongs in the WM, not all X applications use
GTK as rendering toolkit...
>
> Rui
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--Jacob
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