Comments on: Re: Suboptimal Theming in GTK

By: ken

ken — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:27:57 +0000

taj, could you summarize “the QStyle approach”? I don’t see anything in that API that’s very descriptive of which way they leaned. They have a bunch of “combobox” style stuff, so it looks like they haven’t solved it either, but just have a really big API to handle lots of special cases (which is basically useless for custom widgets).

By: Andrew Whyte

Andrew Whyte — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:36 +0000

As in the update at the end of the article, “Spatial” theming certainly seems like an excellent, versatile plan for the future.

However, in the mean time, I think Gtk+ 2.x has a long life ahead of it – with many mature applications and bindings. If “detail hints” are a good option, good we go ahead and _define_ and document a good API (since there doesn’t seem to be one currently) for these hints and include it in 2.14 or 2.16?

Many applications seem to customise TreeView widgets (inconsistently – because of the problems outlined) so they, even as a special case, would be a good priority…

By: Colin Walters

Colin Walters — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:28:28 +0000

I don’t think I’ve switched desktop themes in at least three years. Not because I love my current one that much, but because I don’t care how it looks as long as

1) It’s not crazy
2) It works

I agree with Jakub here – just don’t use themes.

By: sven

sven — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:32:56 +0000

it is already funny reading how gtk+ 3 is going to solve all problems. like quantum computing – just around the corner all the time…

By: taj

taj — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:23:30 +0000

What do you think of the QStyle approach:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qstyle.html