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GTK-Themes To Be Supported By KDE2

Posted by Hemos on from the here's-something-for-your-eye-dekker dept.

Tackat wrote to us regarding the recent announcement from the KDE folks concering KDE2. While KDE has had widget themes and such, the people behind KDE have announced support for GTK Themes. For some screenshots, check out the announcement body.

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  1. Hey guys, *read* the announcement by vanza · · Score: 5

    Lots and lots of people have been saying "cool, GTK themes!" and such. Note that, as some have already pointed out, KDE will support GTK *Pixmap* Themes.

    This means that those nifty GTK Engines won't work, because they rely on how the GTK library implements themeing, and it is most surely different from the way KDE and Qt implement themeing.

    Another misleading link from the article is the kde.themes.org link. kde.t.o only carries KDE 1.x themes, and KDE 1.x has *no* mechanism for widget themeing, aside from window decorations using pixmaps.

    This thing that KDE is doing can probably also be done for GTK: build and engine to understand the KDE 2 pixmap themes (I read somewhere that there is an engine for pixmaps themes on KDE 2 ... maybe a look at http://www.mosfet.org/themeapi/ would help.)

    As for perfomance, I can't say much because I'm not a developer for any of them, but the KDE team has been talking much about this "really cool pixmap cache" that is supposed to be really fast...


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  2. Re:That's quite a shot. by boloni · · Score: 5

    Pixmap themes are essentially images painted over the controls. Widget themes on the other hand, are actual code, loaded dynamically which draws the controls. This make it not only faster, but allows to change the way in which the control behaves. For example, in some styles KDE scrollbars have 3 buttons (2 down + 1 up), combining the advantages of different toolbar styles. With a pixmap style you can change how the button looks, but you can not switch between different behaviors. Lotzi