I really don't like the design of pd-vanilla.. is there a way to make it look like pd-extended?

@solipp There are color strings like "black" and "blue" which are hard-coded in the C code. It may be possible to create a gui plugin that can somehow traverse the patch and recolor it to suit your needs, but that would be kind of a hack.

I think Hans spent some time trying to make properties accessible directly from the GUI through tcl arrays. I personally revised every single drawn item on the canvas to make them theme-able from the GUI, and made it available as a patch for Vanilla. But it never made it in.

yeah, i was afraid there won't be an easy solution.. since i have no programming skills in C or tcl whatsoever.

"I personally revised every single drawn item on the canvas to make them theme-able from the GUI, and made it available as a patch for Vanilla. But it never made it in" - I would love to see something like that!

hey, Jan, is that patch on the mailing list? I'd try to compile it thanks for l2ork

Yeah, it's on there somewhere. But it was part of a larger patch that put all the settings under a single dialog (which included some GUI presets).