Re: [Gimp-gui] GIMP Theme UI now and future.

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2016-01-24 18:29, Sven Claussner wrote:
> On  22.1.2016 at 3:30 PM Jehan wrote:
> > [...] I am fairly confident we can now
> > have a few themes while keeping minimum maintainability.
>
> I guess you mean minimum work resp. maximum maintainability, don't you?

Well depends on point of view. :-) Maximum maintainability is when we 
have a maintainer on the topic who knows it inside-out and can fix 
everything when needed. This is ideal of course. Minimum maintainability 
is to ensure that anyone can at least work out the code without spending 
days, even if the current maintainer were to disappear so that it does 
not become rotten code.

Since we cannot ensure that every current contributor will stay with 
GIMP forever (even this being the hope), every piece of code requires 
minimum maintainability as a feature.
But this is nitpicking. :-)

> > > - 1 system theme for proper system integration,
> >
> > What is a system theme? Do you mean the default theme?
>
> No, a theme that closely resembles the operating systems appearance.
> See the notice on constraints in my spec draft.

So it's indeed basically the "Default" theme then, no? At least that's 
also what I understand from your wiki page.

> > > - optionally 1 theme for roundtrip work with other FOSS graphics 
> > > tools
> > > (Blender, Darktable, Krita)
> >
> > I don't understand what is a "theme for roundtrip work"? How could a
> > *theme* be helpful to work with other software?
>
> For visual consistency, which is also a reason why designers of
> operating systems, GNOME etc. write Human Interface Guidelines.
> If one often switches between e.g. Blender and GIMP, then s/he should
> not feel distracted by the programs' different looks and feels.
> I was inspired by Krita's Blender theme.
> To be honest we can only achieve an approximation here as every
> program has its own styles as I found out in the meantime.

Ok, well that would be possible only for software which have a pretty 
set "look'n feel", like Blender indeed. As for Krita for instance, since 
you say it has many themes itself, I doubt it could be done unless we 
create a "roundtrip" corresponding theme for every theme of Krita. But 
then it becomes complicated (and I don't certainly want GIMP theming to 
become complicated!).

Anyway if really there was a need for a GIMP's "Blender theme", or any 
other software, and if someone wants to create one and maintain it. Why 
not, I guess.

Jehan