A wrapper around the GTK+ rendering engine

Ivan Akulinchev ivan.akulinchev at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 15:32:38 CDT 2015


Hi Stefan,

> Actually, I was thinking the themes execute something.

In my opinion it would be a vulnerability if any theme could execute any
code.

> Would it be possible to integrate the code into the existing uxtheme
> library and make it a runtime setting?

Maybe. One guy from Wine Staging and I trying to do it right now, but I
think, it will take several months.

Regards,
Ivan

01.07.15 22:14, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am 2015-07-01 um 22:07 schrieb Nikolay Sivov:
> > That's because there's nothing to execute. What Stefan meant I
> > think is that theme should be in format uxtheme is supposed to
> > understand, but actual theme settings could mimic gtk UI elements.
> > This way you won't need to have separate uxtheme.dll for every
> > possible UI toolkit. Another idea could be to have this theme file
> > could be generated with some tool on wine install time for example
> > or regenerated later upon user request/or automatically somehow.
> > Anyway, nice concept.
> Actually, I was thinking the themes execute something. I don't think a
> static set of images will help here, except if we regenerate it all
> the time. GTK itself is themeable and the settings might change.
>
> Would it be possible to integrate the code into the existing uxtheme
> library and make it a runtime setting?
>
>
>


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