On Thu, January 5, 2006 1:10 pm, Matthias Clasen said: > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:50 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote: >> On Wed, December 14, 2005 2:02 pm, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Jonathan recently blogged about the new symbolic color stuff that will >> > appear in GTK+ 2.10. He gave a pretty good description of the >> features. >> > >> > It would be great if some people would start experimenting a bit with >> > this, to see if what we have now is good enough for doing recolorable >> > themes and a color capplet. >> > >> > The two main open questions on this are (for me, at least): >> > >> > - What is a reasonable set of symbolic colors that we need ? >> > I would imagine a color capplet would only allow to tweak this >> > small, fixed set of symbolic colors (and maybe offer an advanced >> > tab to tweak arbitrary extra colors). >> >> I assume that a set of symbolic colours would consist of the colour >> palette from the GNOME HIG[1], or even perhaps the new Tango palette[2]. >> > > 27 sounds is a lot. I don't know how you would write a sensible color > capplet that allows to tweak 27 colors.
OK, I had the wrong end of the stick here. I think we need at least 4 symbolic colours - a foreground and background for both normal and 'entry' widgets. I think most colours could then be computed from these (for example, the prelight colour is usually just a lighter version of the normal background colour). [ ... ] >> > - Do we need a way to set defaults for symbolic colors ? >> > This may not be necessary for the "standard" colors mentioned in >> > the first question, since themes could rely on their presence, but >> > it would be a good idea for any random extra colors which >> > themes might want to expose. >> >> This could be useful, especially if the default colours for the theme >> were >> not in the set of symbollic colours (which they probably would not be). >> >> A nice idea would be to have the ability to define one or two >> alternative >> sets of colours for a theme, so that a user could either create his own >> colour scheme, or pick from one or two the artist has defined. > > The "defaults" problem has actually been solved in the meantime. A theme > can now set the color scheme setting to the default values in the rc > file, and it will be overridden by the xsetting on a per-color basis: > > gtk-color-scheme = "background: Red > foreground: #123456" Would it be possible for themes to be able to suggest alternate named schemes? -Thomas _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
