Theming SoC outcome

[Frank Richter]

Hi,
as some of you may have noticed, I did a bunch of theming-related work
in Wine, which was done within a project in Google's Summer of Code.

This is a small overview over what I've done:
- All "non-standard" controls(those that are provided by comctl32, e.g.
Tabs) are themed and seem to work quite well so far.
- All standard controls except Buttons and Scrollbars are themed, though
not always perfect.
- Due the fact that uxtheme was actually used, a number of fixes and
improvements have been made.

However, there are still things left open:
- Bugs. Notably, the dreaded A->W WM_GETTEXTLENGTH issue breaking all
Delphi apps. Working on it though.
- A number of smaller and not so small visual glitches.
- Speed. Seems with alpha blending things are not exactly blazing along.

At least for some of the issues I still have some ideas floating around,
so I guess I'll stick around a bit longer and try to get them fixed.

-f.r.

[Dimi Paun]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 23:31 +0200, Frank Richter wrote:
> This is a small overview over what I've done:
> - All "non-standard" controls(those that are provided by comctl32, e.g.
>
> Tabs) are themed and seem to work quite well so far.

Cool, does this mean they are 100% themed now, as far as you know
or the docs describe?
> - All standard controls except Buttons and Scrollbars are themed, though
>
> not always perfect.

Can you provide a list of problems, if you have one?
> However, there are still things left open:
> - A number of smaller and not so small visual glitches.

Again, a list would be good to have.
> At least for some of the issues I still have some ideas floating around,
> so I guess I'll stick around a bit longer and try to get them fixed.

Nice. Do you mind if we stick this info on a Wiki page, to track
the theming effort going forward?