Re: [g-a-devel]Re: [Usability]Profterm: Theme compliance

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> 
> Pasupathi Duraisamy wrote:
> 
> > Coming back to profterm there is already an option for the user to set
> > different fonts and colors and also the user can maintain different profile
> > settings.  So IMHO we don't have to implement the check box option that would
> > allow the user to select between the default theme from rc file and the theme
> > specified in profterm settings .
> 
> My only comment here would be that while it may not be essential to
> provide such a checkbox, it could nonetheless save a visually-impaired
> user a lot of time and effort.  A user who requires a particular
> high/low contrast theme may have had the theme set up for them by a
> sysadmin, for example-- they may not be able to do it themselves because
> the default theme made it impossible to read the appropriate
> menus/dialogs to do so.  In that situation, the user might not know
> exactly which fonts or colours to choose in profterm to match their
> existing gtk theme, without having to read and interpret their .gtkrc
> file (a pretty specialised task).
> 
> But maybe this is more of a feature enhancement that can wait until the
> next release, I don't know.  Any thoughts Bill?

The usual interpretation of requirements for theme compliance is this:
it must be possible to set the system up so that the default system
settings
are used by the application when the user logs in, without any
additional
user action.

So definitely a "one touch" option to use the GTK+ settings is a good
idea, and it's probably not acceptable to require any user interaction
to achieve this other than setting a single configuration option.  If
it's
not the default (and I think it should be), then it must be configurable
at install time.

-Bill

> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>