Theme Engines

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Kurt,

> 1) What are "theme engines", the obvious tautological answer
>    notwithstanding?

theme engines are pieces of code that are dlopened at run time by gtk
and which replace the default various object drawing routines.

> 2) What do they do?

They implement low level drawing routines for gtk widgets.

> 3) Why would I choose one over the other? 

Depending on your taste :)

> 4) What are the relative merits and demerits of the theme 
>    engines available?

There is a lot of themes engines arround, some cause crashes (funny part
is that if you theme engine cause a crash, all your gtk apps crash at
once :) )

Most of the engines arround are stable, though, so the choice depend on
your taste. This is purely a matter of look.

Cheers,
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