Re: Testing dark themes and marking deprecated widgets

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 30 septembre 2008, à 17:58 +0200, Benjamin Berg a écrit :
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 12:54 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le mardi 30 septembre 2008, à 12:31 +0200, Benjamin Berg a écrit :
> > > 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?
> 
> I guess we could ship two themes. Where it would be either:
>  * A modified "Clearlooks" and a "ClearlooksStable" theme
> or
>  * The normal "Clearlooks" and a "ClearlooksTest" theme
> 
> Where the first option would be the default during (parts of) the
> unstable release cycle. Should distributions change it and ship the
> normal "Clearlooks" theme then the "ClearlooksTest" theme could still be
> build and shipped.
> This way, users can switch to the testing the theme if they want to.

Well, this fixes the issue for themes, but not for critical warnings
(that we want to fix).

Hence my suggestion of something more global, that could be used
everywhere.

Vincent

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