Re: SVG themes in GNOME2.4

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 17:37, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 17:20, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 16:08, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> > > Well jdub already offered Grand Canyon for butchering, and since my
> > > original ditching suggestions turned out less than popular I think that
> > > we could loose both Grand Canyon and Smokey blue instead and through
> > > that also kill of two of the three problematic themes in that
> > > bug-report.
> > > 
> > > If no-one obejcts to this I will start doing the needed work next week,
> > > including mailing about licensing of themes. The re-licensing of the Sun
> > > themes and the Mist/Ximian themes I assume Calum and Dave handle
> > > themselves :)
> > 
> > I'm not sure that moving the SVG themes into gnome-themes is a good
> > idea. I've tried them now, and I don't think they are at the same
> > standard as the other themes in that module.
> Thanks to your incredibly detailed feedback I will get right onto fixing
> the issues...

Sorry.

The extra themes go for dramatically changing the colour of widgets when
the mouse moves over them. This means when you move your mouse about the
screen it erupts in a psychodelic frenzy.

The Nuvola window border theme has got very cryptic window border
buttons; it's like the 1.x sawfish themes where the only way to work out
what was going to happen was to try it first.

The Nuvola icon theme is incomplete and doesn't fit with the gnome icons
that it falls back to.

The "Home" icon in all the themes is big so it causes the "Home" icon on
the desktop to overlap with other icons, even if it's reasonably spaced
under the "Gnome" icon theme.

The Lush icon theme is complete in itself, but is totally different to
the Galaxy GTK theme that the metatheme bundles it with.

Bluesphere, although it doesn't come with a metatheme, is really clunky
and ugly.

Galaxy is yummy, though.

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I'd recommend adding Galaxy to gnome-themes and the lush icon theme (but
not the main theme, since it's very similar to galaxy and only changes
icons to ones that don't fit with the GTK theme). The others have
problems, the most obvious being the large colour changes I mentioned
above.

If I'm the only person moaning about the style of themes in
gnome-themes, though, you can probably ignore me.

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Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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