Wine and XP Themes

[Andrew J. Barr]

I would like to use the XP ClearLooks theme that is available to make
Wine apps blend in with my GNOME desktop. However, it seems that using
themes in Wine makes it rather slow. Is this a known problem, is there a
workaround of some kind, a registry setting or a patch, or is it best
just not to use themes with Wine right now? I am running Wine 0.9.31.

According to a Google search, there seem to be scattered reports of this
problem but no diagnosis or solution.

Regards,
Andrew Barr

(cc'd replies requested)

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Wrong mailing list. Use wine-users.
Unless you want to hack on this yourself of course.

Oh and yeah the only "workaround" is not using themes at all. They are
buggy and never worked right anyway. They are an extra hackish layer on
top of some controls.

Vitaliy

Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> I would like to use the XP ClearLooks theme that is available to make
> Wine apps blend in with my GNOME desktop. However, it seems that using
> themes in Wine makes it rather slow. Is this a known problem, is there a
> workaround of some kind, a registry setting or a patch, or is it best
> just not to use themes with Wine right now? I am running Wine 0.9.31.
>
> According to a Google search, there seem to be scattered reports of this
> problem but no diagnosis or solution.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Barr
>
> (cc'd replies requested)

[Frank Richter]

On 26.02.2007 00:33, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Oh and yeah the only "workaround" is not using themes at all. They are
> buggy and never worked right anyway. They are an extra hackish layer on
> top of some controls.

The comctl32 controls all do theming "natively". The subclassing is done
only for control residing in user32 (the motivation was to avoid copying
and pasting all the control implementations from user32 to comctl32, as
Microsoft supposedly did).

WRT speed: themes usually use alpha-blending extensively; however, the
speed of Wine's AlphaBlend() can almost be measured in geological terms;
so at least part of the performance problem can be found there.

-f.r.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Frank Richter"  wrote:
> The comctl32 controls all do theming "natively". The subclassing is done
> only for control residing in user32 (the motivation was to avoid copying
> and pasting all the control implementations from user32 to comctl32, as
> Microsoft supposedly did).

Sounds like a deja-vu: http://www.winehq.org/?issue=267#Theming%20Revisited

[Felix Nawothnig]

Frank Richter wrote:
> WRT speed: themes usually use alpha-blending extensively; however, the
> speed of Wine's AlphaBlend() can almost be measured in geological terms;

Why is that? Looking at it it seems to be using XRender - since theming 
doesn't require Aero and stuff what way would there be to speed it up? 
(I admit I didn't really read the code. :)

Felix