[PD] changing the look of Pd to be more readable

[ilya .д]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:12:40PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> There's a lot of "-background white" or "-borderwidth 1" there, which
> would become: "-background $theme_bgcolor" or "-borderwidth
> $theme_bwidth" etc. The theme config file then would just need to be
> included from pd.tk with something like (pseudocode): 
> 
>     
>     # set defaults:
>     set theme_bgcolor white
>     set theme_bwidth 1
>     # ...
>     
>     # source theme as provided from command line to overwrite
>     # defaults:
> 
>     source $theme_from_commandline
> 
> The file "theme_from_commandline" would just need to specify
> variables in tcl-syntax:
> 
>     set theme_bgcolor grey
>     set theme_bwidth 2
>     ...
that's what i was just meaning at the top of the thread somewhere .
> 
> People then could write lots of funky themes and distribute them on
> websites and everybody would be happy couples.
> 
> The only thing to write would be some variables in pd.tk and a loader
> which fills the $theme_from_commandline variable. And maybe think
> about if simply sourcing the file is a security hole.

why do you think it could be ?
there so many files sources in different apps, as i know ..

i heard pd is generaly not as secure as some openbsd system apps...
> 
> Ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__
> 
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