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Re: QT-GTK and
by Rayiner Hashem on Tuesday 17/Feb/2004, @14:50

This would be *really* hard to do. There are two ways you could get a common theme format without involving code:

- Vector graphics UI: The problem with this is two fold. First, until we get FD.O and its OpenGL-accelerated Cairo goodness, a vector-based UI will be slow. Second, resolutions are not yet high enough that we can go completely vector-based. Therefore, we'd need some sort of delta-hinting mechanism like TrueType has, to do pixel-accurate adjustments. The whole spec would be very complex, and themes would get a lot more complex to write.

- Pixmap-based UI: The problem with this is also two-fold. First, pixmaps themes are slow and wasteful of memory. Second, they are very limiting --- you can alter the look easily, but the behavior is pretty tightly constrainted to what's in the spec.

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