Re: please can we change the default background color for 2.2

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote: > 
> Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:56, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:55:34PM +0000, MArk Finlay wrote: 
> > > > Are you talking about for the icon theme of the meta theme?
> > > 
> > > I'm talking about the theme ("theme" means "metatheme", specific theme
> > > components are "subtheme" or "icon theme" or something).
> > > 
> > > > Oh and I just looked again. And there is a default metatheme, but
> > > > "Plain" is used by default. Maybe default should be used by default :)
> > > 
> > > You can't use a theme named default by default because then if you
> > > change the default the non-default will be called default. ;-)
> > 
> > No. If you change the Default you change the theme called Default...
> > just like if you change the terminal you change the application called
> > "terminal"...
> 
> Think of a distribution changing their default. By your scheme,
> they have to:
> 
>  A) Rename the default theme to something else (the Red Hat GTK+ packages
>     rename the GTK+ default theme to "Raleigh")
> 
>  B) Rename the theme they want to be the default to Default.
> 
> And then suddenly, their is all this confusion because the Default
> theme on my computer is different than the Default theme on your
> computer...
> 
> Themes named "Default" are just evil.
> 

Yeah, but this was just what Seth was saying - the default theme is the theme that
*is* the default, not the theme *named* default (which might not exist or be any
random theme).  It only gets confusing if somebody is actually uncreative enough 
to call a theme 'Default' instead of inventing a name for it. 

> Regards,
>                                         Owen
> 
> 
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