Re: default theme consensus

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Bryan Clark wrote:
> My opinion is that including the new themes in gnome-themes is a good
> improvement for GNOME, however I haven't seen a great technical or
> aesthetics reason for making the default switch.  To me it seems like
> changing just for the sake of changing. 

It's not just change for the sake of change. The current default is an 
absolutely horrid theme. Therefore, it's a marked improvement. The 
biggest problem with it is that the highlight colour is white in menus, 
blue in other selector widgets (like themes panel). It has little 
consistency, and it's ugly.

I believe that SmoothGnome would be the most logical change based on 
contrast, for any display. It is supposed to render widgets more 
correctly in a wider variety of programs. It is also my understanding 
that its engine is faster.

--Pat