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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

I am sure that responding to this message awards me the Golden Shovel
for digging out the oldest thread ever, but I think the patch indeed
makes the interface look better.

I changed it a bit to avoid code duplication and managed to test it on
our supported problems without any issues.

On behalf of all dark theme fans, thank you Windsor!

Regards,
Orson

On 12/14/2015 04:42 AM, Windsor Schmidt wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is my first post to the list, so please go easy on me. :D I have made a couple of changes to improve the appearance of the GUI for users with dark themes in Linux. A patch is attached.
> 
> * Removed toolbar gradient by adding wxAUI_TB_PLAIN_BACKGROUND to
>   wxAuiToolBar style (gradient is the default).
> 
> * Removed the white border from the main project tree view
>   by replacing style constant wxSW_3D with wxSW_3DSASH.
> 
> * Removed the white border from wxAui panes in KiCad manager,
>   pcbnew, and eeschema by calling PaneBorder( false ) on AUI panes.
> 
> Here are some screenshots from my Arch Linux desktop running bspwm (GTK2):
> 
> Dark theme from trunk: http://i.imgur.com/o1ueuVm.png
> Dark theme after fixups: http://i.imgur.com/TMdu8TF.png
> Light theme from trunk: http://i.imgur.com/MohCz76.png
> Light theme after fixups: http://i.imgur.com/Oj6Bi0F.png
> 
> NOTE: That third fixup involves a loop that runs before updating the wxAUI manager. I duplicate this code in 3 places where the white border was most prominent (toolbars in the manager, eeschema, and pcbnew). I assume this routine could be centralized and called before any time the AUI manager is updated, however I don't know the KiCad codebase well enough to approach this.
> 
> Thanks. KiCad rocks!
> 
> -Windsor
> 
> 
> 
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