Thank you Kevin, I would appreciate it!
Even with images, there should be a distinct widget assignment for that little highlight stripe at the top of the active tab (although the engine might have it's own semantics for it)
In any case, I'd like to avoid images because they make it harder and way more cumbersome to change colors (since one would need to re-colorize the images too).
For example, in my previous themes I was offering different highlight colors for the same base theme, and it was only a matter of changing the value of a symbolic color definition in the gtkrc file. With images, I would have to create new images for all categories of highligted elements.
Actually, I have already ditched almost all images used by the default theme. I do realize that it "breaks" the uniform looks across different OSes, but frankly I much prefer the flexibility I get without them.
Even with images, there should be a distinct widget assignment for that little highlight stripe at the top of the active tab (although the engine might have it's own semantics for it)
In any case, I'd like to avoid images because they make it harder and way more cumbersome to change colors (since one would need to re-colorize the images too).
For example, in my previous themes I was offering different highlight colors for the same base theme, and it was only a matter of changing the value of a symbolic color definition in the gtkrc file. With images, I would have to create new images for all categories of highligted elements.
Actually, I have already ditched almost all images used by the default theme. I do realize that it "breaks" the uniform looks across different OSes, but frankly I much prefer the flexibility I get without them.
Gimp & Stuff: https://www.deviantart.com/migf1