[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13589) Theme support

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13589 >

Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jason Short wrote:
> 
>>Is there a purpose in having this outside of gui-gtk?  How does it work
>>with the crazy FTWL theme system?
> 
>>From my glance at the patch it doesn't seem to be able to work with
> anything but gui-gtk-2.0. I also doubt theme resource files would ever be
> reusable. It may be possible to reuse the theme PNGs for other clients,
> but I think that is putting the cart before the horse.

Well the "theme" concept is a gui one but the client-common code does 
the work of searching through a list of directories for it.  gui-ftwl 
also has themes (see data/themes/).  If we add a GTK theme to the 
repository it should go into its own directory.  But then we have 
potentially naming conflicts if each GUI uses its own theme system 
(data/themes/ for gui-ftwl, data/theme/ for gui-gtk, etc.).

> But this should be pursued. It would be a very nice, user visible,
> addition to 2.1.

OK, I think we should try to get this working for 2.1.

However we also need/want a Freeciv theme.  Hogne (freim) had some plans 
to work on a GTK theme for freeciv but I think he was waiting for some 
code to support it (and he hasn't been active lately anyway).

-jason