Re: Cursors

[bob cs csoft net]

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:

> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:
> > > If window manager themes were to be included, there would have to be a standard
> > > window manager, which is a touchy subject :)
> > >
> > 
> > The idea is that you could include themes for several different WM's in
> > your themeball. For example you can make Sawmill and E themes using the
> > same pixmaps.
> > 
> > > I should have time for at least the next couple of months (until my honours
> > > project starts getting more urgent), so I volunteer if no-one else wants to do
> > > it.
> > >
> > 
> > You win! ;-) The thing to do is probably to think about how the themeballs
> > would be implemented and then post a plan for comments. After duly
> > absorbing/ignoring comments for a week or so, write up the code.
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> 	The problem here is that this makes the theme-ball bigger and bigger. 
> 
> 	There is a solution, gnome should create a meta-WM-theme that each
> gnome-aware WM would have a translator from the gnome-wm-theme to the
> native theme. This is the way I would do it. Any thoughts?

That would only work if the themes were wm themes and then converted to
other wm's. The theme can only be as complex as the weekest themeing
window manager. and that is wm. And, I hate wm themes. :)

> 
> -- 
> "You take the red pill and you stay in wonderland,
> and I'll show you how deep the rabit hole goes", Morpheus.
>  
> []'s Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
> 
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