Re: [MiNT] some gem question

["Standa Opichal" <opichals@seznam.cz>]

Hi!

Skinnable apps come from ignorant users. Use decent skinnable GUI toolkit.
Not that we have one yet but Ozk is working on one I guess in XaAES.

STanda

-----Original Message-----
From: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi [mailto:mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi]
On Behalf Of Miro Kropacek
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 10:28 AM
Cc: MiNT List
Subject: Re: [MiNT] some gem question


>I'm in the process of implementing decent keyboard navigation to XaAES 
>(similar to what is found on other GUI's like KDE, Windows...), but I'm 
>disappointed discovering how few apps this is gonna work with because 
>of the "I'll do this here myself, I dont give a shit about the OS"
>mentality. For this keyboard navigation only apps that use form_button 
>(), form_keyboard() in their form handler function will work.
>

This isn't my goal, to make aes-ignoring application but imagine you want to
do completely skinable dialog... so you will have nice sliders, windows
and... stupid system slider where you can change max. the background colour
(IIRC). What to do then?

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