On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 10:50 +0400, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote: > Well, you've almost convinced me :) > > Isn't it better than have API for colors similar to stock icons API: > > struct GtkStockColorItem; > > gtk_stock_color_items_add > gtk_stock_color_items_add_static > gtk_stock_color_item_free > gtk_stock_color_item_list_ids > gtk_stock_color_lookup > > and add to GtkGC's api. > > gtk_gc_get_from_stock > > also it is possible and useful to make public gtk_style_shade function as > > gtk_color_shade (GtkColor *color, gdouble shade) > > > and define a lot of stock colors: > > GTK_STOCK_COLOR_ERROR /* RED */ > GTK_STOCK_COLOR_WARNING /* YELLOW */ > GTK_STOCK_COLOR_NORMAL /* GREEN */ > GTK_STOCK_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT /* BLUE */ > > and so on for all HIG palette. Note that there are definitely should be about > 8 items with just numbers, as Soren stated, useful for graphs, charts. > > GTK_STOCK_COLOR_ITEM_1 > GTK_STOCK_COLOR_ITEM_2 > GTK_STOCK_COLOR_ITEM_3 > GTK_STOCK_COLOR_ITEM_4 > > > application could add it's own stock colors and theme authors could modify it > just like stock icons
Some important points that need to be adressed are: - We want to be able to write a simple "color setting" control. How does that work ? Is there a Setting containing a palette, ie essentially a map from color names to rgb triplets ? - How can themes adapt to the user-selected stock colors ? Do we add new rc file syntax like fg[NORMAL] = stock-color("foreground") ? - Do themes need to be able to derive new colors from the stock colors ? If yes, how ? Do we parse color expressions like fg[NORMAL] = lerp(0.5, stock-color("foreground"), #ff00ff) ? - How can themes mark themselves as being "recolorable" ? (We probably want to disable the color setting control if the theme uses fixed colors) Matthias _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list