A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc. Hans told us where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.
Sounds useful, patches welcome!
actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more sense with the current pd structure.
you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:
great. I can do a pd patch with a GUI to set up these parameters (I just
can't say yet when it will be finished).
But I still think that it would be better if these settings would be read
by pd itself, and loaded through a patch by the user. For example, the
patch I c(w)ould write would output a text file with the pd-theme, and pd
would access this file on startup (then an extra parameter would be added
to pd).
I also think that the settings should at a later point be done in Tcl/Tk
menus, but for now I guess the xxx.pd-theme text file would be enough. An
even more mature option would be a tcl/tk dynamic window/menu with all the
themes stored on the path, and it would only be necessary to click on one
to make it work.
but first things first: if anyone wants really to work in it and has no
hurry, I can start up the "pd theme chooser".