IMHO WINE developers should first focus on applications, not their look. I believe most users would like to see Visual Studio running in gray instead of not running as native.
Dnia 2008-11-01, sob o godzinie 14:58 +0000, Reece Dunn pisze: > 2008/11/1 Roderick Colenbrander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In the end we need to support a bunch of different theme engines GTK, QT, > > Cocoa and perhaps later on more. In theory it would be possible to create a > > different uxtheme backend for each different toolkit. One major issue is > > the language which each of these toolktis is written in. GTK would be fine > > as it is C but QT and Cocoa require respectively C++ and Objective C. > > Alexandre doesn't want such languages in (although he might make an > > exception for the winecocoa driver if it is really, really needed). > > I mentioned that in my email. The idea that wine would host the XP > msstyles theme (the fallback behaviour for uxtheme), and a GTK plugin > to support GTK themes. Then other projects can provide a Qt and Cocoa > plugin, so they can be written in the toolkit's language. > > > While using a language different than C is a definitive no, I think > > Alexandre might allow the use of other languages in helper programs. The > > best way would be to write a separate program (which would have backends > > for all the needed toolkits) which generates a .msstyles theme (or if Vista > > uses a newer and better format, lets directly move to that format). The > > main issue would then be on how to sync themes. I guess that would need to > > be done at wine startup. > > The problem with the Vista theme is that it is binary and completely > undocumented, making it very difficult to reverse engineer. > > Moving forward, we'll probably need to be able to support both XP and > Vista themes (possibly Windows 7 and later as well if the theme format > has changed). I don't know if moving the processing of that into a > separate process would help, though. > > When syncing themes, you can have uxtheme.dll loading the correct > engine if enabled (see my "Use the native theme" option idea in my > previous discussion on improving winecfg). Then, if the system theme > changes, the WM_THEMECHANGED message needs to be sent to all top-level > applications so they can refresh themselves to use that new theme. How > that happens and where needs to be figured out. > > And yes, the bugs in uxtheme and the various controls need fixing. > > - Reece > >