Re: Theme support in GNOME

["Curtis C. Hovey" <sinzui cox net>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:01, Zeitgeist wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> With GNOME going the way of accessibility, usability and conformity
> (which is great BTW), I have an idea for GNOME development which may or
> may not have been discussed before.
> 
> As it is right now, there is no real "default" GNOME theme, I feel if
> GNOME was to supply just one default theme and icon set (incomplete and
> inconsistent icon sets is another problem) it would enhance usability.
> Of course, this would take a lot of debate and deciding on what the most
> usable theme would be for the default, but I feel it would help GNOME
> out. KDE has gone the way of millions of options and I see GNOME going
> to usability and the way of the HIG.

Traditional is the default theme.

> Themes, if a user really wants it, could be handled in a software not
> included in the default install. Microsoft Windows does this, even
> though I doubt they want it that way, but it increases usability as the
> user is not consistantly figitting with options and themes.

Themes are used to improve usability and accessibility.  The base
platform comes with high and low contrast themes, and themes that change
the font size.

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