Re: Re-inventing Metatheme

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 15:19, Daniel Borgmann wrote:

> This also depends very much on the theme and number of open windows.
> Switching to limebubble with a lot of open calculators takes 10 seconds
> on my P3 1000. Now add a few other themechanges to this and it will
> become horrible slow. Also there is a danger of a broken theme. I once
> had a theme that would simply crash... I know this shouldn't happen, but
> what happens if it does? So I'm all in favor of a preview and apply
> button. Wouldn't it be possible to get a dynamically generated preview
> instead of a screenshot? Similar to what KDE, Windows, etc do. This
> could also probably catch broken themes (taking down the capplet instead
> of all open applications).

good points...

however I think the dynamic preview is a feature for a future rev, not
the 2.2 version.

=Bill

> - Daniel
>