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Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support
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Hi Eric,
Of course it would be the ultimate goal that the SWT application will
look like the system, but you already sketched the problems. If this
goal is not to achieve for a larger amount of Linux systems, we need to
provide a different solution, so the SWT application will at least run
fine on any Linux machine. The drawback that it might look different
than the system might be acceptable if the alternative would be crashing
or looking completely odd. BTW, a couple of users of our application do
not want it to look like the system, they want to have, for example, a
bright system theme and a dark application theme.
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Best regards,
Thomas Singer
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syntevo GmbH
https://www.syntevo.com
https://www.syntevo.com/blog
On 22/02/2019 15:44, Eric Williams wrote:
On 2/22/19 9:32 AM, Thomas Singer wrote:
The question remains how to get that running just for the SWT
application without having to change a system theme, or without
installing anything to the system or the user.
Well now we get into murkier waters of whether SWT should have a concept
of theme at all. SWT really should just be emulating the look and feel
of whatever is running on the user's system...so if SWT ships and
enforces its own theme that does break that contract.
It's one thing to patch a theme that's already set on the user's system,
it's another thing to enforce and use a completely different theme all
together and ignore the user's system theme entirely.
