Re: gep-2, Desktop Theme Sets

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 29 Aug 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:
> > 
> > gep-2, a proposal for "Desktop Theme Set" support, is now in GNOME cvs. 
> > I don't think the push to the website is working yet, so I attach the
> > current revision, or you can get it from cvs/gep/proposals/gep-2.html
> >
> 
> I force-updated it. Tried jrb's rube goldberg thing but didn't really
> succeed.
>  
> 
> Anyway, I want to see us start from the top down. We are basically out
> of space in the Preferences menu. Do we add submenus and end up like
> the KDE prefs menu or the GNOME 1.x menu of old?
> 
> If not we need to think this through.
> 
> Just adding a Theme Set control panel will give us these
> appearance-related control panels:
> 
>  - Background
>  - Font           (we should rename this Fonts btw)
>  - Theme          (includes toolkit - WM - icon)
>  - Theme Set      (includes both Background and Fonts in the set, not
>                    just themes)
> 
> In this setup we're still missing one possibly important panel, namely
> Colors where you can just change colors (overriding the theme
> presumably). [1] 
> 
> I believe that having both Theme and Theme Set, with Theme Set
> actually grouping Background and Fonts in addition to Theme, makes
> little sense. So I'm opposed to just adding a Theme Set control panel
> without reworking the big picture.
> 
> How to rework?

I agree with this. It seems we're getting back to the UI we had that all 
the users flamed in the sun usability study.

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