Re: Testing dark themes and marking deprecated widgets

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 15:19 +0200, Andrea Cimitan wrote:
> 
> 
> 2008/9/30 Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>
>         Le mardi 30 septembre 2008, à 12:31 +0200, Benjamin Berg a
>         écrit :
>         
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         > There have been ideas to improve the desktop by modifying
>         the themes to
>         > show problems in application. Specifically I am proposing to
>         use a dark
>         > colour scheme for Clearlooks during the next unstable
>         release cycle.
>         > Another idea is to highlight deprecated widgets in
>         applications, by
>         > changing their colour to be eg. some shade of red.
>         >
>         > By using a dark colour scheme problems with applications
>         that are using
>         > the wrong colours for text can be exposed. Turning
>         Clearlooks to a dark
>         > colour scheme would mean that a lot more applications can be
>         tested and
>         > both the application and the themes can be fixed.
>         >
>         > The idea to change the colour of deprecated widgets is to
>         expose any
>         > application that is still using them. This would hopefully
>         encourage
>         > maintainers and others to write patches and port
>         applications to use
>         > non-deprecated widgets.
>         >
>         > Both of these changes would be reverted in time for the
>         first beta
>         > release of GNOME (due on February 4th). If this is
>         implemented, we would
>         > probably also have a "Clearlooks Stable" theme, so that it
>         is still
>         > possible to use the normal Clearlooks theme for eg.
>         documentation
>         > purposes.
>         >
>         >
>         > Do you think that exposing deprecated widgets and theme
>         related bugs
>         > like this is a good idea?
>         
>         
>         I like the idea. But I would guess distros would patch this
>         out :/ Maybe
>         we can do some opt-in thing, with a gconf key or a file
>         somewhere in
>         $HOME that would enable this kind of stuff so that users of
>         distros can
>         still participate in this kind of testing if they want?
>         
>         Vincent
>         
>         --
>         Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.
> 
> It is useless if it is optional (people won't enable it).
> It should be IMHO hardcoded.

I do hope that by "hardcoded" you don't mean
"can't opt out".

--
Shaun