2013-06-13, 08:56
Hi all!
I've been working on a skin for some time now, and throughout the entire development I've always been torn between color schemes and themes. I'll explain better. For what I've seen, pretty much everything can be "recolored" using color schemes. Trivial examples are media flags or fanart overlays: when they're single-colored it's easy to make them white and use <colordiffuse> to tone them according to the active color scheme.
This, clearly has the advantage of modifying the entire interface color with more granularity and at the same time deduplicate skin textures, avoiding loads of images that change only in tone due to different themes.
At the same time, though, gui elements like radio buttons, scrollbars, buttons etc. don't support <colordiffuse> (as of yet, at least, even though I understand it's in the workings), so for them the only way is to go through themes.
So here's the question: what's the best way to proceed? What should, from a formal point of view, go under themes, and what under color schemes?
Thank you! =)
I've been working on a skin for some time now, and throughout the entire development I've always been torn between color schemes and themes. I'll explain better. For what I've seen, pretty much everything can be "recolored" using color schemes. Trivial examples are media flags or fanart overlays: when they're single-colored it's easy to make them white and use <colordiffuse> to tone them according to the active color scheme.
This, clearly has the advantage of modifying the entire interface color with more granularity and at the same time deduplicate skin textures, avoiding loads of images that change only in tone due to different themes.
At the same time, though, gui elements like radio buttons, scrollbars, buttons etc. don't support <colordiffuse> (as of yet, at least, even though I understand it's in the workings), so for them the only way is to go through themes.
So here's the question: what's the best way to proceed? What should, from a formal point of view, go under themes, and what under color schemes?
Thank you! =)
