Re: Re-inventing Metatheme

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net>]

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:26, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 21:09, Tom Prado wrote:
> > Personally, I like the term "Themes" the best since it's an entry point 
> > to all the metathemes available/installed.
> 
> i agree to this.
> 
> > > the word "theme". If many people don't, we might be better off calling
> > > it "Appearance". Another possible word is "Style". Of course, this would
> 
> i seriously doubt that choosing new definitions like 'appearance' is the
> right way to go. personally it would be the last preferences setting
> that came into my mind clicking on to search for 'themes'. i think that
> a base glossary of words can be expected from people nowadays.

"Appearance" probably pre-dates "theme" to describe a set of settings to
determine a look. I personally like it because its actually descriptive.
We are talking about changing the appearance of the desktop and
applications. The word "theme" has a variety of meanings, more vauge and
general than "appearance". But thats just me. To throw another word in,
Kaleidoscope calls it's looks "schemes".

Ian