[Wesnoth-dev] Theme System Limitations

[James Barton]

Howdy all

I've just finished a turbulent round of midterms, so I haven't been 
working on Wesnoth stuff much. I did however take time off writing a 
paper to muck about a bit with themes, and have attached the results. 
(Don't worry, I got the paper in on time).

In doing so, however, I have noticed a flaw in the theme system: 
Namely, you don't have control over the font. You can control the size 
of the writing, but not its style or colour.

Specifying fonts is not critical, but I believe that it is important if 
we want a proper theme system - obviously there'll need to be some way 
to provide new fonts along with graphics / theme data. More important 
is specifying font colour. As you can see from the attached screenshot, 
if you want to create a light-coloured theme, the writing can barely be 
seen. This is a problem.

Obviously, as I'm not a coder, there's nothing that I can do to fix 
this. If someone could look into this, however, I would be grateful, 
and it would probably make it worth my while to put serious effort into 
this side-project.

Thanks all,

James
 a.k.a. Sangel

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