Re: Default Theme Progress

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Steven Garrity wrote: 
> > Hey Novell people: what about you guys? Any interest in Clearlooks?
>  
> I've none really. It looks like Bluecurve. Whoo. There's nothing
> particularly special about it. Same stuff, different colors. It's
> not as ugly as "Simple" was, but few things are really. Maybe Crux
> and Mardi Gras or whatever it was. And, looking back at the Wiki
> page (which btw, wikis suck for discussion, as there's no push
> method, and it's all manual polling, so i hate that this has
> been going on, on a wiki anyway), I don't see any particular
> consensus to use a certain theme. It seems more like Seth just
> went about and decided today that ClearLooks would be the new
> theme. I thought there was supposed to be some design put into
> creating a new theme for 2.12? What happened to that contest
> that everyone was talking about? The wiki page is totally incomplete
> for deciding on a new theme. 

Voting and contents/competitions are also not good ways to make 
decisions like this. Someone (a human being) has to look at the input 
from everyone, evaluate the options, and make the call.

Who has the authority to make this decision final at the Gnome level?

Seth and Diana made it clear that they don't think Clearlooks is the One 
Theme to Rule Them All. Rather, it's an incremental improvement and 
works well today.

As for Novell, I Novell Linux Desktop ships with Industrial today, 
right? Are there any plans at Novell for improving Industrial, are you 
happy with it, are you looking for other options? You've got great 
artists working there (Garrett, Jimmac, Tigert) - surely they've been 
thinking about this. Do share!

Again, +1 for Clearlooks from me.

Steven Garrity