Re: Legacy apps and themes

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

This is a very important and welcome feature for accessibility.

Turning it off by default would be a real shame.  In any case there
should be a straightforward way of enabling it (if it's not enabled by
default).

- Bill

> > > 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.
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