Elementary OS-like theme

Forum thread started by HaikuForever on Tue, 2015-07-07 04:51

Hi everyone,

is it reasonable to expect that in the future an Elementary OS-like theme could be created for Haiku, reproducing that very beautiful Mac OS look and feel?
Is it even possible to accomplish this in Haiku?
It's not that I don't like Haiku's native UI, but the Elementary OS UI is certainly more beautiful.

Thanks

HaikuForever

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Re: Elementary OS-like theme

by PulkoMandy - 2015-07-07 10:23

Theming in Haiku is done by writing C++ code. We have gathered all the drawing code in two places: the decorators, which handle window borders, and the control look, which handles everything else. The decorators are add-ons and can be easily replaced. It is not yet the case for the control look, but that would require only minor changes.

Most of the developers agree that the current style is fine: we don't want to copy another OS, unless it is BeOS ;). So, a more OSX-like theme could be done by other people and made available as a package. There is also the problem of making sure that all apps look correct. Having a single theme, and a stable one, makes this much easier for developers. Otherwise they would have to test and debug their app with all the available themes.