8 Sep
2010
8 Sep
'10
10:37 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:19:50PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher 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
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