Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-25 Thread Eric Williams
On 2/25/19 4:53 AM, Thomas Singer wrote: Our application shows following information to the user: *Old GTK3 version detected.* Following GTK3 version was detected: 3.18.9. Version 3.20+ is strongly recommended. If you experience some strange GUI problems, please remove the leading # from line

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-25 Thread Mickael Istria
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:53 AM Thomas Singer wrote: > > Why > > can't this just... work? > > This is the typical answer from a user and he actually is right. > Yes, he is right. But did you figure a satisfying answer to the "why can't this just... work?" that would be a sustainable solution wi

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-25 Thread Thomas Singer
Our application shows following information to the user: *Old GTK3 version detected.* Following GTK3 version was detected: 3.18.9. Version 3.20+ is strongly recommended. If you experience some strange GUI problems, please remove the leading # from line #export SWT_GTK3=0 in smartgit.sh or try t

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-22 Thread Thomas Singer
Hi Eric, Of course it would be the ultimate goal that the SWT application will look like the system, but you already sketched the problems. If this goal is not to achieve for a larger amount of Linux systems, we need to provide a different solution, so the SWT application will at least run fi

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-22 Thread Andrey Loskutov
щих - дело рук самих утопающих http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov > Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Februar 2019 um 15:32 Uhr > Von: "Thomas Singer" > An: platform-dev@eclipse.org > Betreff: Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support > > The question remains how to get that r

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-22 Thread Eric Williams
On 2/22/19 9:32 AM, Thomas Singer wrote: The question remains how to get that running just for the SWT application without having to change a system theme, or without installing anything to the system or the user. Well now we get into murkier waters of whether SWT should have a concept of t

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-22 Thread Thomas Singer
The question remains how to get that running just for the SWT application without having to change a system theme, or without installing anything to the system or the user. -- Best regards, Thomas Singer = syntevo GmbH https://www.syntevo.com https://www.syntevo.com/blog On 22/02/

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-22 Thread Eric Williams
On 2/22/19 8:50 AM, Mike Wilson wrote: I'm not averse to there being an "Eclipse" theme, but experience has shown that it takes significant investment to create/maintain GTK themes. Even if we were just repackaging an existing one, there would be significant testing overhead, since including a

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-22 Thread Mike Wilson
I'm not averse to there being an "Eclipse" theme, but experience has shown that it takes significant investment to create/maintain GTK themes. Even if we were just repackaging an existing one, there would be significant testing overhead, since including a theme that wasn't known to work on the "var

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-22 Thread Thomas Singer
Hi Eric, According to my experience as an SWT user there even exist Linux variants that aren't shipping GTK3 default themes. How to support them? Maybe SWT should support at least one *own* GTK3 theme (and ship it), so the SWT based application can run without problems, look decent and consis

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-21 Thread Daniel Megert
Please move this to the pmc mailing list. From: Aleksandar Kurtakov To: "Eclipse platform general developers list." Date: 21.02.2019 17:27 Subject: Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support Sent by:platform-dev-boun...@eclipse.org On Thu, Feb 21, 2019

Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-21 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 5:59 PM Eric Williams wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to propose an addition to the SWT planning documents, > specifically the target environments section wrt. to GTK3. > > > Some background information: > > On the Linux side of things we often encounter users running custom

[platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

2019-02-21 Thread Eric Williams
Hello, I'd like to propose an addition to the SWT planning documents, specifically the target environments section wrt. to GTK3. Some background information: On the Linux side of things we often encounter users running custom GTK themes (i.e. themes not shipped with GTK itself) reporting is