Comment 14 for bug 195929

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In , Roc-ocallahan (roc-ocallahan) wrote :

> Also wouldn't this need a working composition manager?

Yeah, or else the window makeup of GtkEntry would need to change.

> though it would not fix these kind of problems for free, would it?

No...

I don't expect it to happen quickly either.

> There are some 20 darwing functions, but only 12 slots left to add more
> funtions to GtkStyle.

We could have a single entry point with a struct parameter packaging all the state that's needed to draw any widget. There are some advantages to doing that from our point of view; our theme drawing API also has a single entry point for drawing, with the widget type as a parameter.