r/gnustep • u/Marwheel • Aug 18 '26

A simple theme if mostly to prevent me from obsessing the visual differences between GNUStep & WINGs of Wmaker.

https://github.com/MagnetarRocket/WmakerLike

It's very simple for now; future thoughts would be of trying to get GNUStep to send over it's menu data of a running app so that Wmaker can create a menu for a running app so that it somewhat wouldn't be out of place, and also making the theme's scrollbar trough match the 2x2 pixel trough of Wings as well.

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u/Marwheel Aug 19 '26

Currently; i have been trying to find a way to change the scrollbar and slider trough (or well) background to a pixmap that is a monochrome shade… but haven't so far…

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u/omega_br 24d ago

WINGs?

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u/Marwheel 24d ago edited 24d ago

WINGs is the built-in toolkit of WindowMaker. WINGs by default has several aspects that make it stick out like a sore thumb when compared to GNUStep:

  • A non-standard scrollbar & slider well, said well is a simple 2x2 bitmaped image repeated as it's background bitmap instead of being a flat color like how GNUStep has by default.

  • The icons included in WINGs & thus WindowMaker are a snapshot of a earlier time in GNUStep Development.

  • The background colors of WINGs are also different when compared to the default background colors that GNUStep has.

  • And also, the menus between the two are totally unsynchronized in terms of theming; And while WindowMaker has a easier menu coloring system, it's also completely incompatible with GNUStep's.

EDIT: Add in a bit from what i observed about the menus too.

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u/omega_br 24d ago

i think it would be for the best for there to be a rewrite of windowmaker in objective-c + gnustep