Themes in xfce4

[Jasper Huijsmans]

After seeing all the themeing work by Olivier on xfwm4, I had an idea about 
themes for xfce4. xfwm4 works with named xpm's in a theme directory, so why 
not extend this to other xfce apps? The apps of interest I think are xftree 
and the panel.

I've been working on a gtk2 based panel for a bit and my idea is to use 
named icons for the default categories instead of built-in ones that xfce 
uses now and keep the builtins as backup for files missing from the theme. 
I'll start with the list that is used by xfce now.
Would this satisfy the themeing needs of  most people or are there better 
ideas? The same could be done for xftree I guess, with an xpm file for 
every file/directory type.

greetings,
Jasper

PS
Just a quick development news flash ;-)
The new panel is nowhere near finished, but I have the following features 
working:
* basic panel layout and color scheme (looks the same as old panel, more or 
less)
* communication with xfwm4 through freedesktop.org protocol
* changing between different sizes
* changing from oldstyle to newstyle on the fly.
* indicators like clock, trashcan, mail checker can be implemented as 
builtin module or external plugin (I have a plugin mail checker working and 
a builtin trashcan and super simple clock)
* popup menu (without items at the moment :)