Ivan Akulinchev ivan.akulinchev@gmail.com writes:
So my GSoC proposal wasn't accepted this year. Probably it was my mistake by applying it too late, but this mail is not about this.
Since a big research was already done, it would be fine to implement this feature anyway. The problem is that I still don't know what such people as Alexandre Julliard think about it. I got some positive feedback from normal users and even some Wine developers. However they don't make decisions about the Wine future and I don't want to spend my time if this feature will never get into upstream.
Improvements to the existing comctl32 and uxtheme to properly support Windows themes would be most welcome, and would be a prerequisite for other changes anyway. More test cases would also be very helpful.
Whether we want to load a native toolkit to replace common controls is debatable, and that part is not going to get upstream without some very convincing arguments.
A tool to generate Windows themes from the native ones would probably give most of the benefits, without the compatibility issues of a native toolkit.