Re: "Missing information" bugs

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

<::... SchAmane ...::> wrote:

> У Птн, 2005-07-08 у 20:45 +0100, Thomas Wood пише:
>  
>
> > There are quite a few bugs filed that mention there is missing 
> > information in the theme listings, such as:
> >
> > * Indication of SVG/PNG icon themes
> > * Indication of Metacity themes following GTK colours
> > * gtk-engine information missing from gtk themes
> > * Install instructions missing on theme pages
> >    
>
> I dont realy know what for you need this info. One usefull information
> to me seems "gtk-engine usage", so we can place link to this gtk-engine
> on the same page as Theme which seems to use it. It should be easy to
> parse. gtkrc have only one "engine" string.
>
> I dont get why i (as normal user) should know what is difference between
> PNG and SVG theme, or even what is "following GTK colours". This not
> interesting to me.
>
>  

I think whether the theme changes colour according your GTK theme might 
be interesting to users. The user might not like the colour in the 
screenshot on the website, but if they know the colour will change 
depending on their application theme, they may like the theme more. I 
agree that whether an icon theme is svg or png shouldn't really be much 
of a concern, since it's really a technical issue.

The real issue is for the items that have specific extra information, 
how best do we display this on the theme listings and the detail pages. 
I've always thought that a small icon on the preview thumbnail might be 
useful, but I'm not sure how to attach this, dynamically in html if 
possible. There are some other extra bits of information which may be 
useful to display on listings as well, such as the presence of 
variations of a theme or background. I think a set of small icons to 
display this information would be nice, but I don't want to make the 
listings appear crowded. I would still like to be able to let people 
know in the listings how many comments are available for each item as 
well, but currently there just isn't enough space. Perhaps we need to 
redesign the listings?


-Thomas