Re: Theme Set, part two

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 29 Aug 2002, Seth Nickell wrote:

> > I certainly don't think that the 'Desktop Theme Set' facility should
> > allow the user to select things that would not be available via the
> > separate capplets.  Therefore the theme sets should be as inclusive as
> > possible in order to be useful, and _must_ be so if they are to meet
> > accessibility needs.  I agree with you that creators of new visual
> > "looks" will often want to specify their favorite fonts as part of the
> > "Theme Set", I don't see why we should make that impossible or even
> > difficult.  As I said, users are still free to mix-and-match via the
> > separate capplets.
> 
> Because when authors change the font, they will almost always choose
> unusable fonts; there's much less incentive to touch the font if you're
> going to leave it with a boring but readable font. Themes are currently
> designed primarily with an interest in visual appearance. This is not
> *so* bad for controls and window borders, but goes south really quickly
> for text usability (fonts). And we don't want users to have to do two
> settings changes per settings change. That's my whole point here Bill!
> Centralising all these things *increases* expected number of "clicks"
> and/or expected number of preference pages that will need to be opened.

I *completely* agree with this. And additionally, if we ever get a set of 
actually good fonts I don't want this wasted by people downloading themes 
and getting one of our old crap fonts back. There is also the issue that 
the font specified in the theme may not exist on the users system (and due 
to copyright issues can't be put in the themeball) so some possibly ugly 
fallbacks will be used ("Sans" for everything i suppose).

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