Re: [g-a-devel]gnome-cd : theme compliance

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

JAYARAJ P R wrote:
> 
> In gnome-cd (CD player application), the user is provided with 2 options
> (lcd theme and red-lcd theme) to set the background color in the display
> area.
> Is this fine with respect to theme compliance? The rest of the player
> respond
> to changes in the theme settings except the display area.

It certainly doesn't sound ideal, especially as the display area uses a
pretty small font from what I've seen of it, and on top of that, both
themes offer rather low contrast between the text and the background.

The best option, if possible, might be to write an additional theme for
gnome-cd that just used whatever the user's current gtk theme settings
were, and make that the default theme.  I'm guessing that might not be
an option, though, as I don't know how sophisticated gnome-cd's theming
mechanism is-- I've cc'ed Iain Holmes (the maintainer), so hopefully he
can shed some light on how feasible that would be.

The only other option I can think of is to effectively remove the
theming option from gnome-cd, and just have it use standard, boring old
gtk widgets throughout.  But I can't see that being a popular move, so
it's probably a bit of a last resort that Sun would have to maintain
separately, which we really don't want to do.

Bill, Iain, any other suggestions?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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