Currently, TheBar.mcc is using a pretty awkward and non-standard way of enforcing absolute prioritization of user preferences over individual application requirements. For example, setting MUIA_TheBar_ViewMode to MUIV_TheBar_ViewMode_Gfx during object creation doesn't have any effect at all. TheBar simply ignores it and uses the user's preferences instead.
The only way to override this is to set MUIA_TheBar_IgnoreAppearance to TRUE. But this is some kind of master reset because it completely drops all user settings and resets them to default values. Thus, it is currently impossible to change a single user setting to a hardcoded one without going back to factory settings altogether, i.e. it's not possible to enforce an icon-only toolbar without doing a hard reset using MUIA_TheBar_IgnoreAppearance.
I think this needs a more elegant solution because the current one is not very useful.
Here is another example: Say an app wants to use MUIA_TheBar_MouseOver. According to the docs, this only works with either MUIA_TheBar_Raised or MUIA_TheBar_Sunny set to TRUE. However, the latter two are user settings once again and apps cannot override them without doing a master reset using MUIA_TheBar_IgnoreAppearance. So apps can't really use MUIA_TheBar_MouseOver with the user's settings at all because you don't know whether or not the user has SUNNY or RAISED enabled. It's all pretty messed up IMHO and needs some better design.
Currently, TheBar.mcc is using a pretty awkward and non-standard way of enforcing absolute prioritization of user preferences over individual application requirements. For example, setting MUIA_TheBar_ViewMode to MUIV_TheBar_ViewMode_Gfx during object creation doesn't have any effect at all. TheBar simply ignores it and uses the user's preferences instead.
The only way to override this is to set MUIA_TheBar_IgnoreAppearance to TRUE. But this is some kind of master reset because it completely drops all user settings and resets them to default values. Thus, it is currently impossible to change a single user setting to a hardcoded one without going back to factory settings altogether, i.e. it's not possible to enforce an icon-only toolbar without doing a hard reset using MUIA_TheBar_IgnoreAppearance.
I think this needs a more elegant solution because the current one is not very useful.
Here is another example: Say an app wants to use MUIA_TheBar_MouseOver. According to the docs, this only works with either MUIA_TheBar_Raised or MUIA_TheBar_Sunny set to TRUE. However, the latter two are user settings once again and apps cannot override them without doing a master reset using MUIA_TheBar_IgnoreAppearance. So apps can't really use MUIA_TheBar_MouseOver with the user's settings at all because you don't know whether or not the user has SUNNY or RAISED enabled. It's all pretty messed up IMHO and needs some better design.