Re: Default WM theme settings

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:35:12AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jens Knutson">
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 13:27, Michael Toomim wrote:
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the major UI-change decisions in 
> > > gnome supposed to happen with 2.2 instead of 2.0?  It might be good to 
> > > make this choice along with the rest of the desktop's UI, since there 
> > > will no doubt be consistency issues.
> > 
> > That may have been the intention back last year, but I don't think this
> > is playing out now - there *are* a lot of UI changes going on,
> > especially regarding usability and HIG compliance.  I think this issue
> > of the default WM theme definitely falls under those headings...
> 
> The main issue behind the UI freeze is documentation. The docs dudes have
> already started taking screenshots of GNOME windows decoradted with Crux, so
> if there was any change, someone would have to offer their time to go
> through and re-take all of those screenshots.
> 

And when I last brought the issue up several months ago, the
discussion rather petered out, and we ended up settled on Crux, and
a team of enslaved house elves in Outer Mongolia is now in the midst
of manufacturing screenshots galore. A change at this point would make
the house elves most distraught, as they don't get paid.

Cheers,

John