Re: [Banshee-List] banshee vs songbird

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Brad Taylor wrote:
> Actually, Firefox theming is quite supported and actively used:
>
>    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2
>
> In fact for a while, I had my Firefox looking like Google Chrome.
>
> Being skinnable doesn't prevent Songbird from looking like Gtk+, in fact
> it enables someone to write that support[1].
>   
The point of Firefox is that it AFAIK does not use it's own window 
drawing but uses the one provided by the windows manager. If I remember 
correctly (it's a while back so I could be wrong), firefox sets up a gtk 
window and thus you gain all the nice buzz like composite, etc. The last 
thing I hear was that they're preparing for a qt port since it currently 
doesn't integrate into kde too good.
With Songbird it seems to me that they are doing their own window 
drawing (hints: Having the menu bar inside the window, composite not 
working) which does not seem a very good design choice to me since it 
was one of the things that massively turned me of.
With limited theming support I meant in contrast to Firefox 1 where you 
could rebuild the entire ui to your liking - something that's AFAIK not 
possible to this extend anymore (but who wants such a thing anyway?).

ym2c