Theming for Wine via the registry

[Mitchell Mebane]

Mike Hearn wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:15 +0000, Oliver Stieber wrote:
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>>The only problem I can see would be drawing the
>>widgets, I haven't looked deeply enough into QT or GTK
>>to know if it's more on the 'impossible' side of
>>difficult or not.
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>>Wrapping the event loop and passing events should be
>>relatively easy.
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>You have feature mismatches, eg GtkTextBuffer cannot do some things the
>richedit control can, Win32 menus can't do some things that GTK can etc
>etc. Also getting the message/paint sync especially for subclassed
>windows would be impossible. Basically we have to do our own widgets, we
>can't actually map win32 widgets to some other toolkit. 
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>It was tried, back in the early days of the project (to Tk). But it
>failed.
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>>That doesn't sound too hard, I don't know how well
>>defined Gnome and QT's accessibility interfaces are
>>but I think QT's coming along quite well it would be
>>nice is everything got Dbused though.
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>Well the Qt/KDE a11y stuff is integrating with the GNOME APIs, as Sun
>developed the a11y infrastructure on Linux basically for GNOME. It's
>based on CORBA and yes it's quite well defined.
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>thanks -mike
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Couldn't you just wrap the theme engine, like the GTK-Qt Theme Engine does?

--Mitchell Mebane

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