Re: Re-inventing Metatheme

[Bryan Campbell <bryany pathcom com>]

>2002-08-30 20:23 Lars Weber
>>  * While I decided to use an extensible list of theme-settings in my
>>    design I can also see the problems related to changing things like
>>    backgrounds or fonts in such a dialog.  Asking the user in such
>>    situtations whether he also wants to apply these changes might be a
>>    good idea.

9:23 PM 30/08/02 +0100 Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
>That's an interesting idea too. Instead of asking every time, 
>maybe the 'metatheme' capplet should have two more checkbuttons, "use
>Theme Set's Font" or "Override User Font" or something,  
>"Allow Theme Set to change Background", (or "Keep User Background",
>"Preserve User Font"....  we could discuss the wording)

hi, that is good idea. On few other lists folks with lower vision were very
particular about fonts since change can make their systems unusable to them
[heck I'm 47 now & have my fonts a bit bigger than new designers tend to
use so I want a "Keep My Fonts" option, too]. Among upper level Opera beta
testers we always followed Opera's idea the computer does not belong to the
software and leave the person running the computer in control! Perhaps call
it polite software design [grin] Giving folks 1 place to say Keep My Fonts
strikes good balance between asking too often [as some media players do
about playing given kinds of formats] & not having enough control over items


Regards,
Bryan Campbell

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