GTK+ gets CSS style theming

Shameless plug to my favorite toolkit: Qt has had this for ages now: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/stylesheet.html

The Qt guys also have been trying to take this a step further with the declarative UI / QML (basically a tiny DSL for UIs) project:

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/05/13/qt-declarative-ui...

Great in concept, but copying from CSS itself seems like a bad idea. The lack of abstraction can lead to some really inelegant stylesheets or necessitate writing the stylesheet in another language and generating CSS with a compiler. The lack of conditionals and variables is, to my way of thinking the most significant limitation.

I can understand adding stylesheets to GUI. That makes sense, perfect sense even.

But to copy all the flaws of CSS as well?

This change seems very much in line with the GNOME philosophy. It would _greatly_ simplify theme creation.

. . . and still look horrible.

You can't say that here! But the screenshot makes it pretty clear.

Edit: that's the default engine, as it says in the blog post. I still think GTK looks awful, but this is not really good evidence.