Comment 1 Nick Mussin 2012-01-30 08:08:39 EST

This bug is blocked by 362166. By using variants, the widgets cannot be fully re-styled as subwidgets still use the default theme. One could only try to define a variant that somehow matches the default look and feel (for example, it's not possible to create a dark combobox, because Combo-Button will remain default-styled).

Comment 2 Ivan Furnadjiev 2012-01-30 09:48:58 EST

My idea was to extract and improve the "special-red" and "special-blue" related definitions from the old "tea" theme (org.eclipse.rap.demo\theme1\theme.css) and set them as a theme contribution to the default theme. Here is the segment from the "tea" theme:
/* Custom variants */

.special-red {
  color: red;
  background-color: #ffaaaa;
}

.special-red:disabled {
  color: white;
}

.special-blue {
  color: blue;
  background-color: #aaaaff;
}

.special-blue:disabled {
  color: white;
}

Shell.special-red {
  border: 3px solid red;
  padding: 10px;
}

Shell.special-blue {
  border: 3px solid blue;
  padding: 10px;
}

Link-Hyperlink.special-red {
  color: #ffaaaa;
}

Link-Hyperlink.special-blue {
  color: #aaaaff;
}

Button[PUSH].special-red, Button[TOGGLE].special-red {
  border: 2px solid red;
}

Comment 3 Nick Mussin 2012-01-30 11:49:40 EST

all right, I will use the custom variants from "tea" theme and just adjust the colors a bit.

Comment 4 Nick Mussin 2012-01-31 04:59:53 EST

Created attachment 210302 [details]
adds theme contribution to default theme with properties for custom variants 'special-red' and 'special-blue'

Comment 5 Ivan Furnadjiev 2012-02-01 05:21:57 EST

Applied patch to CVS HEAD.