Re: Regarding a new default theme

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

>  Slow themes will not yield any major "wows" either, I assure you.

I would not want a slow theme myself either, ever. If such a theme is to be 
created, it will have to have optimizations and an engine behind it, and 
when GTK+ is found to be crawling, then optimize GTK+ itself. That's why I 
said earlier that in order to create a modern theme, it is NOT just a matter 
of writing the theme alone, but also modifying GTK+/Metacity and I asked for 
the co-operation of these teams on such a project.

Such a theme stretches GTK+'s abilities, and that's a good opportunity to 
extend the toolkit. If we don't do that, GTK itself will never go to the 
next level either. It's needs like this that create evolution.

> Perhaps we can simplify the look a bit in
> order to simplify the code.  In particular, the active tabs  and
> scrollbar arrows look too complicated.

That's most of the beauty of this theme. If we make those as unshaded 
rectangles, we just got Bluecurve or Simple back... The theme has to be 
modern, even if that means changes to GTK+ itself and/or its theme code. The 
theme has to be fresh and modern, I woudn't want to cut out any of its 
features...

Rgds,
Eugenia

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