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User forums => Using Code::Blocks => Topic started by: AndJSch on January 24, 2015, 01:03:10 am
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Hello,
I just want to know if there is a design update planned which overhauls the design of codeblocks on windows. Codeblocks looks great on every platform expected Windows. I know that there is the theme option, but this only changes the style of the editor, not the menu. I would highly appreciate if there would come at least an option that let look the whole IDE look more fancier like VisualBasic does. Codeblocks is a so nice and useful IDE which is not overloaded at all, I really like it to use, but the design nowadays has gotten bad. I think the developers shouldn't forget that the design of a program is also important...
I wish that there would be a light and a darker theme with flat design like VisualBasic 2013. Sorry for mentioning a other IDE, but it makes just a good example of how it should like.
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Won't happen until windows start to provide better design for its native controls or until wxWidgets starts looking fancier on windows.
Sorry there is nothing we can do (except re-writing the ide from scratch using qt or some other toolkit).
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If you want to spend a lot of effort you can try to build Code::Blocks on windows using wxGTK and see if you like the way it looks.
Note: I failed to get it to run and do anything; because I failed to figure how to get the Plugins to work last time I tried building it under Cygwin. But, it did look different. I have decided that building Code::Blocks using Cygwin is a waste of my time. But, I have also decided it might be useful to build wxWidgets under Cygwin when I next have a lot of free time.
Tim S.