Updating GSoC proposal

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 3/20/2012 12:48, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Jacek Caban <jacek at codeweavers.com 
> <mailto:jacek at codeweavers.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     GSoC is starting this year and, if we want to have good
>     applications, we
>     need to update our proposals. Usually the most attention is directed
>     into adding new ones, while we keep obviously bad (or just bad IMO)
>     proposals on the page. I'm planning to remove following project
>     proposals:
>
>     Security - implement sandboxing
>     Theming - Implement Wine theming support
>     NTDLL - support performance registry keys
>     Winelib Aware Scons (or cmake)
>     Cleanup Winemenubuilder to support generating Application Bundles
>     on Mac
>     OS X
>     Wine-based application virtualization
>
>     If someone knows a reason to not remove them, please reply.
>
>
>     Cheers,
>     Jacek
>
> Why remove theming support? It would go a long way towards excellent 
> desktop integration.
I'm not sure how it helps with desktop integration actually, you're 
probably referring to using host system looking alike
control theme to be used by win32 application?

The problem with getting this work properly is that you need to touch 
loader most likely (so kernel32/ntdll), duplicate all user32 controls 
inside comctl32 including tests, make them register themselves when 
application really wants to. And of course fix uxtheme bugs. So it's 
quite a lot of work, and not really explored part actually.

And in my opinion this accomplishes nearly nothing, except one nice 
thing - some applications want new comct32 v6 controls that are formerly 
implemented in user32, and it's not right to fix that in user32 code 
now, cause native user32 doesn't provide new buttons styles for example. 
It's not really related to theming support, it's all about 
use32/comctl32v6 coexisting.

>
> J. Leclanche
>
> (Sorry for the double post, Jacek)

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