Re: A Proposal For The Addition Of Color-Reactiveness To The GNOME Desktop

[Nate Riffe <inkblot goose inkblot ml org>]

On 20 May 1998, Bruce Stephens wrote:

>Bowie Poag <bjp@primenet.com> writes:
>
>> Ahhhhh, okay. I see. Yeah, I can agree with that.. But i'd still
>> prefer to keep things purely color-oriented, instead of having
>> different icon "looks". A lamp is a lamp is a lamp, in my book, but
>> I will admit there is an added degree of flexibility with your spin
>> on it.
>
>Applications should say what state they're in, the GUI (window manager
>or similar) can decide how to present that.  I agree that colours
>would probably make sense, but for some things sounds or textures
>might be sensible.
>

it hadn't occured to me before when the discussion was about colors, but
it seems sensible to make this stuff themable.  i can just imagine a
"spaceballs" theme that has applications going plaid when they run up the
cpu.

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