+1 theming engine is needed, it is the same part as multilanguage. Hardcoding stuff is not so good. Am 23. März 2012 23:06 schrieb Joseph Groover <looncraz@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > I don't think the full theming engine (with xml and whatever) should be >> part of Haiku; maybe you already know of the BeTheme project. Still, >> Haiku should support replacing the looks and feels, even if it does only >> provide a single version in the stock install. >> >> > The "theming engine" would be a stand-alone preflet. Whether or not Haiku > includes it is another matter. > > However, the app_server needs to be able to support swapping out the > control look and decorators at a minimum, and ideally also the window > behavior. The remainder is already easily performed with the current > APIs...though you may end up with redundant preflets... > > --The loon > >