Hi
I haven't kept up with the state of development/readiness of the windows theme,
but I really don't agree with forcibly changing the default theme ... I know it
makes me really irate on the odd occasion when Apple change default behaviors
on OSX, and I have to look for the way to revert to previous behaviors.
The theme is the user's choice ... so what should happen is that, on
installation, the installer should ASK the user which theme they want to use,
allowing them to select between available themes, but making the windows one
the first selection (assuming here that for most apps it works well ... people
can always change theme on a per-app basis anyway).
If the user has already chosen a theme themselves (ie the default is already
set in NSGlobalDomain) then the theme that they had previously chosen should be
the first/default option when they are asked to choose a default theme ... so
they can just hit the return key to continue using the last theme they selected.
Although I generally agree with leaving the default theme as is on Unix,
where we can theoretically strive for a complete environment, on Windows
we always will be hosted, thus I consider it correct to have a more
windows. friendly theme as the default on windows. I consider it an
exception. Even when using a complete development environment you
probably want that. Also, if you go as far as having several developer
applications installed, you will be smart enough to be able to revert to
the default theme if you wish.
A default theme however must guarantee that any application can be
compiled and work well without any further "porting efforts" to adapt
it. This is not the case with the current WinUXTheme, although it works
very well for some applications.
I think a good proposal would be, if possible, to make the WinUXTheme as
a user-selectable component in the NSIS installer, however selecting it
should write automatically the global preferences so that it will be
enabled.
In this release I would make it by default unselected and maybe the next
release will have it selected by default.
I don't know however if the windows installer can be so smart to write
the NSGlobalDomain when installing it?
Riccardo
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