Re: [Tile-dev] Pending changes: "default" theme

[Will D. <Wil...@jp...>]

Joe,

If you're going to rename "default" anyway....why
not just leave "default" as the standard X11 style
and create a new style, e.g., "root", which "default"
draws on?

Will

On Nov 23, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Joe English wrote:

>
>
> The "default" theme currently serves two purposes:
> it's the default theme under X11 (unless overridden
> by user preferences in the X resource database),
> and it's also used as the final fallback source
> for elements and layouts that aren't defined in
> other themes.
>
> Although the design constraints for these two roles
> have a lot of overlap -- elements should be plain
> and unobtrusive and not clash too badly with anything else --
> there are cases where they're in conflict.
>
> For example, there's the fallback Radiobutton.indicator
> and Checkbutton.indicator elements.  (BTW, these are
> scheduled to be renamed to "radio" and "check", respectively).
> These don't work properly without further script-level
> configuration to set state-dependent resources.
> That is, if you do:
>
>     style theme create empty
>     tile::setTheme empty
>
> ttk::radiobuttons and ttk::checkbuttons will be non-functional;
> the appearance doesn't change with the state.
>
> So: the current plan is to introduce a new theme
> (probably called "plain"), which will be used as the
> default on X11.  Look and feel will match Tile's
> current "default" theme (that is, similar to 2003-era
> out-of-box Gnome and/or as_style.tcl from Tklib).
>
> The "default" theme will only be used to provide default
> element implementations and layout specifications; there
> will be no [style configure] or [style map] settings,
> and it won't be listed in [ttk::themes].
>
> "default" should probably be renamed "root" or ".",
> if that can be done without causing transition problems
> (see earlier thread on compatibility policy).
>
>
> --Joe English
>
>   jen...@fl...
>
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