Mork re-uses the same two ‘fade’ png:s for almost everything: bg.png and mfade.png, and is basically very simplistic. The rest of the images used are for specific UI elements, such as the window “x” and combobox arrow (these were mainly changed so that they work better when changing the color).
However, since it inherits the ‘default’ theme, which is quite complicated, and anything that is not overridden will come from default. There has been plans to make a bare-bones theme that could be inherited instead, which would be perfect for Mork - I think Jouni has even started the ‘bones’ theme, but it’s not finished due to time-constraints :-\
But the main feature of Mork is still the ability to change it’s color by adjusting one or two CSS properties.
Anyway, I think we should figure out how much interest there is in theming (poll, anyone?) - if there is enough interest, it might be wise to bump the priority of the bare-bones theme + tutorial.
And then there is the
theming competition idea we’ve been talking about arranging - perhaps we should do it with the GWT community as a whole: http://www.ongwt.com/post/2008/11/07/Skinning-contest
I think theming should be an interesting feature, as almost for any production application, the question abount making a custom theme raises up sooner or later. So, to my mind, an kind of tutorial / documentation would be very very useful.
I can also add my 2 cents by supplying a chapter for theme-orineted manual or whatever else about applicaiton customization using just only a custom layout, as we did this in our company in order to transparent application fitting into the existing website look-n-feel. This is not a true custom theme as it uses default theme (or whatever else) but it minics the application as it is a website, that is required for some cases/projects and very fast and easy to implement even for non css guru/webmaster (like me
I mostly fixed some components based on Johan’s feedback.
Note: there is currently a ‘overflow issue’ where the rightmost pixels of a few components are cut of. Not too bad though. Will take a look at it soonish…
I love this theme, its just what I am looking for.
Hope you / some one with the designer skills is able to update this for 6.1
I have
added a suggestion here if there is anyone else who would like to see it in the near future.
In general I would like to see more Themes added to Vaadin - they are a great way to show off how flexible but simple Vaadin can be - which has to be one of its best selling points.
John, I’ll try to finish up all the things I’ve promised (some articles, tpt 1.0, etc) this autumn as we finish current activities on putting several clients onto production.
