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Re: [PATCH] Dark Theme Fixups

 

I'll shelve this patch for now since it's usefulness seems to be split
depending on you OS.

On 12/15/2015 7:36 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
> I would prefer to see all the applications get a native toolbar for
> their main toolbar, I have only hacked it on in the kicad manager
> currently to see whether it was popular at all. if not then i won't
> bother, however i don't believe the dark patch to remove the gradient
> works very well on OSX esspecially in the manager as then the toolbar
> has no division from the rest of the window.
>  
> 
>     Which top toolbar, kicad, eeschema, pcbnew?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     http://s14.postimg.org/rnvw70sr5/Screen_Shot_2015_12_16_at_08_02_19.png
> 
>     Here is the main toolbar not as AUI on osx, as can be seen this uses
>     the native OSX toolbar so fits in better with other applications,
>     The gradients mainly seem to come from the AUI toolkit.
> 
>     On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>         I have tested it on OSX with before and after here
> 
>         http://s14.postimg.org/gf0kty89t/Untitled_1.png
> 
>         I would prefer to see the top toolbar no longer based on the AUI
>         as i think it is unnecessary for that particular toolbar as it
>         is not really one that needs to be docked and undocked.
> 
>         It this was to occur it would be able to use the native toolkits
>         on each operating system rather than what it is currently using,
>         including on OSX using the titlebar colour for the toolbar which
>         is more natural on OSX
> 
>         thanks
> 
>         Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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