[Mono-winforms-list] Theming in MWF

[Vladimir Lushnikov]

Ok, thanks for the overwhelming suggestions to use the clearlooks
theme - will checkout svn and try it.

Regards,

On 21/12/05, Alexander Reiter <r.alex at utanet.at> wrote:
> 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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