Desktop Theme Spec

洪任諭 pcman.tw at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 11:03:19 PDT 2008


2008/4/21, dan_500 at web.de <dan_500 at web.de>:
> Olivier Goffart wrote:
>  > Actually, you can use any KDE or Qt  theme in Gtk with the gtk-qt theme engine
>  > http://gtk-qt.ecs.soton.ac.uk
>  >
>
> Yes.  :-)
>
> > And It is verry possible to write the opposite (a Qt style that use the gtk
>  > styles)
>  >
>
> Yeah. Some QT developer must do it.
>
> > (And i wonder what would happen if you use both two in the same time :-))
>  >
>
> Yes, I'd thought of it, too. ;-) I thought it would be cleaner if they
>  easily use the same theme. What is if we have ten toolkits? Should they
>  all have a theme engine for each other toolkit?

We should have only one set of common theming API for all toolkits.
Then some backends for every toolkits should be created by the developers
who master these toolkits.
Only in this way all problems can be solved, and all duplicated work
can get prevented.


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