[Mono-winforms-list] Theming in MWF

Alexander Reiter r.alex at utanet.at
Wed Dec 21 14:24:22 EST 2005


Hi,
 
   have you already tried: export MONO_THEME=clearlooks
   this looks great.

/alex

Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 13:35 schrieb Vladimir Lushnikov:
> Hi,
> 
> I finally got around to seeing the WinForms implementation in Linux.
> And even when exporting the "nice" theme (export MONO_THEME=nice) -
> let's face it, Winforms currently looks awful. If an example is
> required, then take a look at
> http://www.vladsharp.com/images/prog/winforms_look.png
> 
> But enough complaining. How can it be made better? I don't have any
> clue on implementation details, but since WinForms is a canvas-based
> implementation, I don't see any reason why it couldn't look as good,
> or better, than, say, Swing applications in Java.
> (http://www.vladsharp.com/images/prog/swing_look.png) I don't even
> know Swing that well, but I do know it looks much better that (e.g.)
> the default forms look in Firefox on Linux. Why can't Linux look good?
> Well, there are toolkits to change to make the default look look good.
> But why can't Mono's Windows.Forms implementation look good? Yes, it
> might take time to get a decent look, but can it not be done?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Vladimir "Vlad#" Lushnikov
> http://www.vladsharp.com - Poetry, programming: all in one day's blog
> 

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