On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:28:11 +0200, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
I think it would be of great value to have windows applications integrate semlessly with the linux desktop without having to look for a msstyle theme that looks like the same as the currently used theme.
Absolutely!
http://wiki.winehq.org/ThemingSupport "Write a GTK+ theming bridge so Win32 apps get GTK+ themes automatically."
Are we (=you) far away from this step ?
As far as I know, nobody is working on it. I wrote that bit on the Wiki because it's the logical next step.
One issue is that GTK+ 2.8 (the newest version, just released) now uses Cairo for rendering. I'm not sure how we should approach this - I suspect if widgets start drawing themselves without using the GDI stuff will break in weird ways (clipping and such), so it may need odd hacks like compiling GTK+ and Cairo as ELF DLLs so they can load native theming engines but draw using a Win32 build of Cairo.
thanks -mike