Re: Legacy apps and themes

[textshell neutronstar dyndns org]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:46:46AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="textshell neutronstar dyndns org">
> 
> > That is exactly what i wanted. Simple things simple and the poweruser
> > stuff in gconf only.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to:
> 
>   a) turn it on by default, not include a UI at all ("What are 'not-GNOME'
>   applications, and why do I need to set their colours?"), and leave it all
>   to gconf
> 
>   b) have this as a display setting in CrackPipe, the infamous but still
>   non-existant advanced tweaker's funky-crack preference dialogue
> 
> This option stinks of the "please unbreak me" turd. :-)
> 

I'd have not trouble to default if to off, and hide it somewhere ;-)
But serious. I think the right setting for this depends quite a lot on the theme
and non gtk applications used. I think GNOME should not change the rest of the
world.

But your right it would be better to phrase this i a way that is more suitable
for non power-users. Would we offend anyone with "old applications". Maybe this
isn't quite the right term, but it would be nice to coin (or reuse) some not to
technical term to talk about those athena and co. (oh i think motif is in the
rdb boat, too) applications.

Martin H.