[Bug 5382] Add QT/GTK Integration

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5382

--- Comment #19 from [e-mail]  2009-11-15 12:24:05 ---
> It only seems so easy. Wine shouldn't depend on GTK/Qt or anything else,
> controls should be drawn and work as much close to natives as possible.

I thought Wine was supposed to provide a seamless native layer for Windows
application in Unixes, but this philosophy of separation seems a lot like what
we get with virtual machines. Whereas Wine Myths
(http://wiki.winehq.org/Debunking_Wine_Myths) supposedly states: "Wine
integrates with the desktop ... and makes Windows applications first-class
citizens. Now you can ... place that application's window side by side with
native applications". The next logical step with the integration aspect is, in
my opinion, theme integration, so that placing Wine applications side by side
with native ones wouldn't make them look crippled in comparison.
> Complete native themes support is enough here to treat this bug fixed. I don't
> know if generating .theme file + some registry data from Qt/GTK theme data is
> possible, but it definitely should be an external tool.

As far as I know, those themes are unusable in Wine, because they are so slow
and CPU-hungry no one uses them. Besides, there is no external tool yet, so the
problem isn't solved. Plus, I think this tool should be part of the Wine
project. Who said Wine should only consist of the layer itself plus
applications that it can run? Who would object to an external, Linux-native
configurtion tool, I wonder?