Some people might wonder what exactly this “themes” stuff in the commits is all about. So let’s see how it all started, where we are and what’s left to do.
I don’t think it’s right to say that zeta looked ugly. You could also change the themes there, just like under be, it was the same theme manager iirc. So one could say, as ugly as under be too.
Decorators are already supported, for ControlLook I thought I did but it seems not. Not that hard really.
Hmm, no, BeOS didn’t have an official theme manager, there were some tools like WindowShade to hack app_server, and then BeTheme.
I wrote the theme manager for ZETA, and later ported it to BeOS R5 and Haiku.
Ugly, ok, since I made most of the themes, but seriously it worked quite well back then.