Davyd Madeley made an interesting suggestion for redesigning the theme format. Assuming, as seems likely, we end up using Clutter, there’s no need to specify the structure of a window, which would need SVG. After all, all windows have a basically similar structure. Instead, we could style any item on the window usinga CSS file, parsed by libccss.
Don’t want a titlebar?
#titlebar {
height: 0;
}
Want a red background on the close button?
button#close {
background-color: red;
}
And so on. I think this is an interesting idea because it seems comprehensive enough to capture all the problems we face in theme design. I’m wondering whether it’s perhaps more powerful than necessary and whether it could cause themes to be able to be disruptive, though.
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