Re: [Audacity-devel] Themes

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

That's great, but since this is James's sub-project, I don't think we 
should do anything further on it until he checks back in. And the 
immediate goal is to make Unicode Debug and Release versions of modular 
build and get 1.3.6a1 sealed up before GSoC coding starts. So please 
don't start on theming improvements yet.

To that point, Martyn mentioned that the name won't show fully in the 
default configuration pull-down, so this means:
    * "Debug wx284" becomes Mod_Debug
    * Modular_Release becoms Mod_Release
    * the other two are Mod_Uni_Debug and Mod_Uni_Release.

I'm working on that today.

- V


Leland wrote:
> Okay, so it seems that theming works just fine.  I'm going to recommend 
> that we make this a permanent feature, at least internally, so we can head 
> down a single path when coding stuff like color usage and the like.
>
> So, what I propose is:
>
> 1)  First priority is to make the default theme to be what it looks like 
> without theming enabled.  We do not want to force the experimental color 
> scheme onto anyone.
> 2)  Modify Theme prefs to include a "Enable/Disable Themes" option
> 3)  Modify the rest of the code to use #2
> 4)  Clean up all EXPERIMENTAL_THEMING ifdefs as that will not work with #2.
> 5)  Discontinue use of USE_AQUA_THEME by switching to the standard theme 
> mechanism.
> 6)  Add to Theme prefs the ability to pick from multiple theme files.  Not 
> necessary, but it would be useful.
>
> Thoughts,
>
> Leland
>   
>