[ros-dev] desk.cpl appearance tab

[David Hinz]

Hi Timo,

when I looked into Win32k about 6 weeks ago, the SYSCOLORs were
hardcoded and I doubt it changed since then.
I don't think it would be that hard to implement the whole syscolor
thing properly, but as you probably know, everybody working on this
project has got _huge_ todo lists, so you either have to implement it
yourself, or wait until someone tries to rewrite Win32k and ask him to
implement it for you. But doing it yourself would be the faster way...

2006/7/29, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer at web.de>:
> Hi,
>
> Some time ago, I thought about implementing the appearance tab of the
> desk.cpl, to allow some basic theming.
> This is what I've done so far:
>
> http://static.flickr.com/76/200954523_5f103460fd_o.png
>
> On win XP you can change and apply the colors correctly. Fonts / size is
> not yet implemented, nor loading of themes from the registry.
>
> But it doesn't work on ROS.
> On 0.3.0 RC1 the ColorPicker dialog doesn't work at all. On trunk you
> can at least change the color by editing the values.
> But they are not applied and either not saved to the registry (regedit
> always crashes) or not loaded from registry at startup.
> The color button on the background page doesn't work either.
>
> 1.) Is loading of syscolors from the registry already implemented? Is
> someone going to do it in the near future?
>
> 2.) How should storage of themes be done on ROS? Exactly the same way XP
> does it (Control Panel\Appearance\New Schemes\xx\...) or in a ROS
> specific way?
> On XP Scheme names are stored in themeui.dll, I think this is pretty
> complicated and is only needed for systems with users having different
> languages.
>
> Greetings,
> Timo
>
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