[compiz] Re: metacity theme support in gnome-window-decorator

[Elijah Newren]

On 9/20/06, David Reveman <davidr at novell.com> wrote:
> I played a little bit yesterday with adding metacity theme support to
> gwd and it looks like it's not going to be very hard. Hopefully I'll
> have it working in the next couple of days. What I've done is to rip out
> all the parts of the metacity code that is required for theme support
> (boxes.c, gradient.c, theme-parser.c, theme.c, util.c). Ideal would be
> if we could put this part of metacity in a libmetacity so it can be
> shared between gwd and metacity. Does that sound reasonable?
>
> I'll post some more details about this once I have it actually working.

Cool.  :)  I'm betting you could get away without most of boxes.[ch].
The definition of MetaRectangle plus meta_rectangle_intersect() is
probably all that's needed.  util.[ch] is probably similar; it's
mainly just functions to provide debugging spew (meta_verbose,
meta_warning, meta_topic...), you may have similar functions already
that you could replace those with (or, if you "don't need no stinkin'
debugging logs" just rip them out).

It's worth noting that a theme rewrite is under way and will probably
be merged soon:  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102547.
Perhaps you want to include the new version?  Anyway, I know nothing
about the theme code in metacity (theming has always been the part
that is boring to me and which I really don't care about), so if you
have questions, Havoc or Thomas would be the best ones to ask.

Cheers,
Elijah