[Conkeror] breaking change: themes

[John J Foerch]

Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/3/20 John J Foerch <jjfoerch at earthlink.net>:
>>  * It is no longer possible to theme scrollbars.
>
> This one really bothers me, not because I can't live without themed
> scrollbars, but because I think they should be available.  Is there
> really *no way* to make this happen?  As we always say, how does
> Firefox do it?

  It is necessary to register a chrome overlay in order to theme
scrollbars.  Firefox does it with a kind of extension package called a
"skin".  It should also be possible to write skins for Conkeror, so what
I could have said to be more specific is that it is no longer possible
to use Conkeror's theme system to change the scrollbars.

  Over the past week or so, I have tried many different GTK themes in
order to change Conkeror's chrome to work well with native themes.  The
opinion I have come away with is that there are many nice themes
available--easy to install and use--and being compatible with them gives
us more, not less, flexibility to customize the Conkeror's appearance.

-- 
John Foerch