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*                   Camaelon v0.2pre                 *
*                     29/10/04                       *
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*             Theme bundle for GNUstep               *
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Web site
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http://www.roard.com/camaelon

This program is released under the GNU Public Licence. 
See the COPYING file for more informations.

Author
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Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com>

Introduction
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The original look of GNUstep is very close (if not exactly similar) to the NeXTSTEP look. 

While very good when you works with it, it looks a bit old with the current playskool interfaces 
available everywhere ... 
So I wrote this theme bundle, Camaelon, with the idea of providing a fresher look, while 
remaining good in term of useability.

Actually it's not very configurable (you need to change values in the source code for gradients/colors), 
but hopefully it will be the case in a near future ;-)

The other point is to provide a basis for themes under GNUstep; while I did some others attempts
(see http://www.roard.com/screenshots), I'm trying here to not provide for the moment a full theme engine 
but rather a more configurable and enjoyable GNUstep base UI. I'll try in the future to improve this 
theme bundle to effectively provide a full theme engine, but this will involve some works on -gui.

Anyway, I think this current theme bundle is already interessting to test ... :-)

Classic Theme
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This is the current look provided by the theme bundle (theme's name : "Classic").

The differencies are small but forms a refreshing look (buttons/borders, switch and radio buttons, sliders, arrows ...).

The biggest "visual" difference are the gradients (mainly on NSTableView, NSOutlineView and NSBrowser headers).

Installation
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Just compile the Camaelon bundle : 

		make

You should have now a Camaelon.themeEngine bundle. Copy this bundle where you want.

After that, you also need to tell GNUstep where to find the theme bundle, so write : 

		defaults write NSGlobalDomain  GSAppKitUserBundles "YourLocation"

(with YourLocation the path to Camaelon.themeEngine, included).

Now, just try to run a GNUstep program ... :-)

Future goals
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- Provide a better configurability :-) -- with a GUI program to easiliy set themes and themes characteristics 
- Having the themes characteristics and icons separated in another bundle will permits to separate Camaelon with 
  actual themes -- Camaelon will only load the selected theme; So it will be possible to distribute themes easily 
  (with same UI but different icons/color sets) ...
- Clean up -gui problems with wrong color behavior, and ideally update everything to provide a full 
  color/gradient/pattern fill ... and, eventually, provide a full pixmap theme engine.

Contact
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You could contact me at this address : nicolas@roard.com 
