The future of the native theming support

[Ivan Akulinchev]

 > I don't think anyone is ideologically opposed to the idea, but the
 > problem is it's very hard to get right in such a way that won't break
 > applications.

Honestly I didn't see a popular GTK theme without tons of comments like
"Oh my God! They killed XXX!". This way, if a GTK theme can break a
native GTK application, a conflict with Windows applications is very
likely. However this "break" doesn't mean a SEGFAULT crash, rather an
unpleasant sight. You shouldn’t use this feature if you don't like it.

On 25.04.2016 17:59, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:23:43AM +0200, Ivan Akulinchev wrote:
>> As far as I know there already were some attempts to do something in
>> this direction. But interesting patches I found in wine-patches were
>> left without any response and Wine still looks like a monster from
>> 90s. At the same time I see a lot of patches affecting the DirectX
>> API. Is it the official position of the Wine maintainers to keep
>> Wine as an OpenGL wrapper? Of course there are a lot of users who
>> just want to play their Windows games on the Unix-like systems, but
>> the need of working with normal desktop applications is still very
>> high.
>>
>
> I don't think anyone is ideologically opposed to the idea, but the
> problem is it's very hard to get right in such a way that won't break
> applications. I think a more likely option would be to bring it up to
> look like a modern Windows UI, or just any generic "modern" UI, even
> if it doesn't match the native toolkit. But even that would be a
> massive and difficult undertaking.
>
> Andrew
>