Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-09-08 22:37:54 +0200: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:19:50PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > > I don't know of any way to set a system wide color scheme of any sort. I > > know of different toolkits using their specific settings, and that's as > > close to a system color theme as I'm aware of. I did switch to a dark > > theme and managed to get qt use the GTK theme, but that still leaves a > > lot of programs out of the equation. Note that Desktop-Environments in > > the sense of gnome/kde is something I despise, mainly because of their > > current understanding of 'integration', which in practice means to > > almost force users to use certain programs and an unbelievable > > dependency hell. They each create their very specific ecosystem in which > > they attempt to 'integrate' everything else, which just means to make > > stuff dependent on more and more of the ecosystems specific subsystems. > > /rant > > > > Well, I don't know how to achieve anything like a system color scheme in > > the foreseeable future. > > The simple fact is that X11 has and always has had an excellent system > to handle this. It allows to define resources (colors, fonts, whatever) > for > > - all applications, > - classes of applications, > - a single application, > - a particular named instance of an application. > > It's far superior to anything else I've seen (in particular > to anything else using XML). > > Common GUI toolkits, wanting to be 'cross platform' usually > completely ignore this. > > /rant > > Ciao > > -- > FA > > There are three of them, and Alleline.
Just out of general interest, is this an Xlib thing or does XCB provide the same stuff? -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
