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Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWT GTK Theme

In this case can we drop it or at least not compile it by default? It doesn't make sense to me to spend time porting something unfinished and not in the works lately?

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Silenio Quarti" <Silenio_Quarti@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Eclipse Platform SWT component developers list." <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:28:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWT GTK Theme
> 
> 
> The org.eclipse.swt.internal.theme package is an attempt to provide
> Theme drawing APIs so that custom widgets could draw portions of its
> content with native look (buttons, checkboxes, scrollbars. etc). The
> code was never finalized, so the API was never moved into a public
> package. The package was exported in order for the community to try
> it out. It seems that the interest on such API faded away and it
> never got high priority to get finished.
> 
> I am not aware of anyone using it. It is certainly not used by the
> Eclipse SDK.
> 
> Silenio
> 
> 
> 
> From: Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Eclipse Platform SWT component developers list."
> <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date: 10/15/2012 05:11 PM
> Subject: [platform-swt-dev] SWT GTK Theme
> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Can someone give me some overview of how
> org.eclipse.swt.internal.theme is supposed to be used. It makes use
> of a number of things removed in GTK3 but I don't find any usage in
> SWT itself and the internal package is exported which made me a bit
> suspicious. What's the story with it?
> 
> Alexander Kurtakov
> Red Hat Eclipse team
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