#111: GUIs: Support for themes

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#111: GUIs: Support for themes
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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
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Our GUIs should support themes (or "skins").
That is, materials and colors should be easily switchable, possibly at
runtime.

This feature should be easy to implement: We only need to group all
materials, textures and color definitions for a theme in a common
subfolder of the GUI -- the contents of the subfolder defines the theme
contents, the name of the subfolder is the name of the theme.

The only truly new extra feature that seems to be required is for color
definitions, for which we have to introduce e.g. "color tables" as a means
of indirection.

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#111: GUIs: Support for themes
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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
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Comment(by Carsten):

For some very cool GUI theming / skinning ideas, see

- http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=1585

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cafu.de/ticket/111#comment:1>

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#111: GUIs: Support for themes

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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
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Comment (by Carsten):

Also consider CEGUI:
* http://cegui.org.uk/

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cafu.de/ticket/111#comment:2>

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#111: GUIs: Support for themes

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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
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Component: Libs | Version: svn-head

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Comment (by Carsten):

Also see the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries:
- http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Linux-Desktop-Enlightenment-E19
-mit-voller-Wayland-Unterstuetzung-2395228.html
- https://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about%2Fefl

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cafu.de/ticket/111#comment:3>

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#111: GUIs: Support for themes

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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: Libs | Version: svn-head

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Comment (by Carsten):

Also consider:

- https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
- https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui
- https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear

It is still unclear whether any of these can be render the GUI screen
plane in perspective and if the backend (OpenGL, Vulkan, ...) can (easily)
be reimplemented.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cafu.de/ticket/111#comment:4>