Wine integration with native (Gtk, Qt, Cocoa/Carbon) themes

[Roderick Colenbrander]

> 
> 
> Reece Dunn-2 wrote:
> > 
> > Thoughts? Ideas?
> > 
> 
> I'm just a user, not a dev, so forgive me if this sounds stupid, but it
> seems to me like it would be simpler to just create some sort of layer
> that
> forwards all calls to the Win32 theming API to Qt, and make Wine dependent
> on Qt (perhaps as a GSoC project?). Qt bends over backwards to maintain a
> native look and feel on all major platforms, including Windows, OS X,
> KDE/X11, and GNOME/Xfce/BBQ/X11 (in 4.5), so Wine's codebase wouldn't have
> to be overly complicated by hacks to support  each platform. This approach
> would also have the benefit of rendering the QuartzDriver planned for Wine
> 1.2 completely unnecessary, if I'm not mistaken. Since Qt is maintained by
> a
> ton of devs unrelated to the Wine project, this would also allow Wine to
> ignore changes in this area specific to each platform, whereas with other
> approaches I've seen in this thread Wine would have to constantly adapt to
> each change and put in the work necessary to port the native theming to a
> new platform; of course, Wine would still have to adapt to changes in the
> Qt
> API, but that would be much more predictable and presumably less to deal
> with.
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This is technically not possible. We can't use native APIs for drawing.
Roderick
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