Thanks for the clarification Tom.

2010/6/14 Tom Schindl <[email protected]>

> Am 14.06.10 06:46, schrieb Lars Vogel:
> > "Hi Tom,
> >
> > what is the advantage of using applicationCSS vrs. cssTheme?
> >
> > My understanding is that the only difference is that you do not need to
> > define the extension point "org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.theme" defined.
> > Even if you use applicationCSS you can still later change the CSS via
> > the theme manager.
> >
> > Is that correct?
> >
>
> No. If you are using applicationCSS you only get CSS-Support but you are
> not able to change the CSS-Theme as easy as it is possible with the
> Theme-Stuff beside people can't contribute their CSS-Snippets like they
> can with CSS-Themes.
>
> There's no theme manager setup for you in case of applicationCSS - it is
> really only for very simple RCP-Application who want to be as simple as
> possible (e.g. no fragment contributions, not using commands, ...)
>
> Tom
>
> > Best regards, Lars
> >
> >
> > 2010/6/12 Tom Schindl <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     One more update on this. I've decided now to keep the
> >     applicationCSS-switch which makes sense for applications who don't
> need
> >     our fullblown themeing system.
> >
> >     So if you only want to use CSS and don't need a themeing system
> >     applicationCSS does what it did before we introduced the Themeing
> >     System.
> >
> >     If you are using the Themeing system you should use cssTheme-switch
> in
> >     your plugin.xml-File.
> >
> >     Tom
> >
> >     Am 11.06.10 18:07, schrieb Tom Schindl:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > Fellow e4-devs I've just released a change which deprecates the
> useage
> >     > of applicationCSS in your plugin.xml in favor of the real thing one
> >     > defines since our CSS-Theme stuff is in place.
> >     >
> >     > So please replace applicationCSS through cssTheme in your code. The
> >     > attribute still works (it simply shows a warning) but I'll fix our
> own
> >     > stuff over the weekend.
> >     >
> >     > Tom
> >     >
> >     > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=315256
> >     >
> >
> >
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