Re: Re-inventing Metatheme

[snickell stanford edu]

Hi Rodney, I didn't know Windows used the word "Desktop Themes".
Actually, I think that's an argument in favour of Desktop Themes,
because presumably some of our users will be familiar with that term. I
think we should go with that unless somebody comes up with a really
bright idea ;-)

-Seth

Quoting Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>:

> I think the fitting name is "Desktop Themes". "Themes" is too
> simplistic, as it would modify several aspects of the desktop.
> Not calling this because Windows does, is an inane argument.
> We should use the name anyway, unless they have some evil patent
> or other random crap to prevent us from doing so.
> 
> -- dobey
> 
> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 14:37, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>     Hi,
>     
>     A fundamental question I have looking at the mockup is where this
> fits
>     in the Preferences menu and the desktop in general.
>     
>     i.e. we will not have an entry labeled "Metathemer" in the menus
>     please. ;-) Before implementing this app, we need to know what
> it's
>     labeled.
>     
>     I say this because to clean up the Preferences menu as we have,
> we've
>     had to rearrange a lot of the control panels themselves and
> what's in
>     them.
>     
>     I have every expectation that users would look for this
> functionality
>     in the control panel labeled Theme, not in something weird
> called
>     Metathemer.
>     
>     Havoc
>     
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