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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Style plugins now in CVS.
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1999-04-26 13:48:48
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Mosfet wrote:
> Yes, we most certainly need an application that can manage widget, kpanel, and
> window manager themes all as one operation. I have added widget style/themes
> to the style tab in kcmdisplay but of course that is all that it can handle.
> My approach is that kthememanager will then be able to merge all the different
> relevant configurations into one huge configuration file and apply them all
> together.
> 
> Right now reading widget configuration files is done by the application
> itself. This is not ideal because there are a lot of entries and they keep on
> changing pretty much whenever I commit ;-) I think it would be more ideal for
> me to add two methods in KThemeBase to read/apply and write configuration
> files. Of course it can already read one, but that is an internal method and
> not suitable for kthememanager.
> 
> In this manner you would be able to do something like
> KThemeBase::applyTheme(const QString &file); and
> KThemeBase::writeCurrentTheme(const QString &file); in kthememanager.
> 
> Does this sound good?

Yes, sounds good.

Feel free to change kthememgr accordingly if you want to -- or tell me
then I will help you.

--Stefan

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