Re: [LAD] Mouse/knob interaction

On 22:37 Wed 08 Sep , fons@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:19:50PM +0200, Philipp ?berbacher wrote:
>
> > I don't know of any way to set a system wide color scheme of any sort. I
> > know of different toolkits using their specific settings, and that's as
> > close to a system color theme as I'm aware of. I did switch to a dark
> > theme and managed to get qt use the GTK theme, but that still leaves a
> > lot of programs out of the equation. Note that Desktop-Environments in
> > the sense of gnome/kde is something I despise, mainly because of their
> > current understanding of 'integration', which in practice means to
> > almost force users to use certain programs and an unbelievable
> > dependency hell. They each create their very specific ecosystem in which
> > they attempt to 'integrate' everything else, which just means to make
> > stuff dependent on more and more of the ecosystems specific subsystems.
> > /rant
> >
> > Well, I don't know how to achieve anything like a system color scheme in
> > the foreseeable future.
>
> The simple fact is that X11 has and always has had an excellent system
> to handle this. It allows to define resources (colors, fonts, whatever)
> for
>
> - all applications,
> - classes of applications,
> - a single application,
> - a particular named instance of an application.
>
> It's far superior to anything else I've seen (in particular
> to anything else using XML).
>
> Common GUI toolkits, wanting to be 'cross platform' usually
> completely ignore this.
>
> /rant
>
> Ciao
>
> --
> FA
>
> There are three of them, and Alleline.
>
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Is it possible that the unrestrained urge and perception of glamour associated with shiny toolkits has supplanted
solid if "boring" fundamentals already available in X?

Enquiring minds want to know. :)

Alex.
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Received on Thu Sep 9 04:15:03 2010