Re: [Synfig-devl] UI themes on different platforms

[Carlos L. G. <gen...@gm...>]

Hi Yu!


El viernes, 2 de agosto de 2013, Yu Chen escribió:

>  Dear,
>
> As Konstantin's great effort on windows build, and now Synfig Studio looks
> more like a native windows application than ever.
>
> But for osx, it still uses  default(ugly) gtk theme. I am considering to
> introduce a more native ui theme (in looking) for OSX, the initial idea is
> to just copy the gimp 2.8 theme on osx. Do you think it is a valuable work,
> (since I can not dedicate my time too much to Synfig related stuff,). And I
> have never touched gtk theme before.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Yu Chen
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>

I think that it should be great to have a more native looking on OSX but
I'm worried on give any hope on success on such big change. Specially when
Gimp 2.8 is based on gtk 3 and we still based on gtkmm 2. That work would
work for only one platform and at the end it won't add anything
significative to the workflow of the user (just the integrated menu).
Wouldn't it be better to join efforts to move fom gtkmm 2 to gtkmm 3 and at
the same time work to rearrange the layout forward the single window UI,
instead of work on the integration of the application on the operating
system?
 -G


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Carlos
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