Looks like querying OS light/dark mode is on the w...

# compose-desktop

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Looks like querying OS light/dark mode is on the way to Compose Desktop via Skiko - https://github.com/JetBrains/skiko/pull/118

[Dominaezzz]

Surprised it's being done on the skiko level.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I guess it's technically not Skia bindings, but given that it involves platform specific native API calls, it wouldn't conceptually belong in Compose Desktop.

[Colton Idle]

Oh this is awesome and super timely for me. Thanks for posting!

Also, I know I can just search google for these file extensions... but .cc and .mm? What is that all about?

[olonho]

Skiko is universal low level UI library for needs of Compose

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Might want to expand the description of Skiko

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

@Colton Idle - .mm is for Objective C files (on macOS). .cc is the "regular" C++ file extension, also used interchangeably with .cpp

[Colton Idle]

Thanks. TIL!

[ephemient]

usually .m is for Objectives-C, .mm is for Objectives-C++ ( objc mixed with c++)

[tad]

My kingdom for a GTK to Compose theme translator

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

There's certainly a precedent of a sorts in the Swing world. https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf provides support for loading IntelliJ themes (in the original json format) in Swing apps. However, there's a lot of work involved there trying to bridge the gap, if you will, between two theming systems (even though IntelliJ itself is a Swing app, they chose a theming approach that is not 100% compatible with Swing look-and-feel UI delegates)

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

So a GTK -> Compose would need two big parts. The first part is a parser that can handle everything in a file like https://github.com/i-mint/bluesky/blob/master/BlueSky-Mountain-Dark/gtk-3.0/gtk.css. The second part will probably be much bigger - if you want to actually support every single thing in a GTK theme, you're going to end up writing a whole new collection of components that support all of these attributes. I don't think you'd be able to map all of them to Material components and attributes.

[tad]

Oh totally. I'm not saying it's feasible. I think a better approach would be to adapt Compose to generate Gtk views.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Absolutely feasible. As long as you're willing to implement a collection of UI components that match the API surface of Gtk

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Not sure what you mean by "adapt Compose to generate Gtk views"

[tad]

I mean implement an Applier and Node to output Gtk views

[tad]

basically make a compose-gtk

[Dominaezzz]

Like compose-web and dom.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I'm not sure how that would work, but certainly would cost less than a kingdom for somebody who's interested in it