Re: Re-inventing Metatheme

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 19:40, snickell stanford edu wrote:

> 3) I can't put my finger on it, but the current layout proposed there
> looks rather messy. Its heavy on frames, and low on alignment :-)

It's a prototype!  You always throw the first one away, no point in
spending any time on it... plus it encourages people to criticize it
more, which is always a good thing  :)

> 4) Metacity and GTK themes both change very quickly (plenty fast enough
> for instant apply). Nautilus themes should, though I haven't checked
> recently.

Not on Solaris, sadly... it usually takes the thick end of a minute to
change from the default theme to HighContrastLargePrint on my Ultra10!

Cheeri,
Calum.

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