Description Sebastian Schneider 2010-05-27 03:31:50 EDT

Build Identifier: 1.0.0.HEAD

A lot of the skinning is hardwired in the code, so I'd like to suggest to refactor that code to pluggable themes.

For backwards compatibility, this could be reached by extending API using an <IThemeManager> like

public interface IThemeManager {

	public ISettings getSettings();

	public IColorManager getColorManager();

	public ILanguageSettings getLanguageSettings();

	public IThemeManager setLanguage(ILanguageSettings language);

}

Thus it's fully backward-compatible and fluent interfaces could be utilized when customizing.

ISettings, IColorManager can be extended be inherited interfaces guaranteeing compatibility, as well.


That way theme extension and reuse is much easier, and skin-specific code must not be taken care of.
Within the same step, modern themes like Office 2010 or a new e4-look could be added.

Reproducible: Always