Re: Window Manager

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthias Warkus <mawarkus@t-online.de>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Window Manager


> +++ Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:28:41AM -0400 +++
> Ben FrantzDale e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > > +++ Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:26:35AM +0300 +++
> > > Ali Abdin e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > > > I'm in the same position kind of - I decided I wanna try to work
with
> > > > sawmill - supposedly its lightweight, I'm also gonna download a few
> > > > themes for it to play with - and those are /TINY/ size (40K themes
as
> > > > opposed to Enlightenment's multi-MB themes).
> > >
> > > You're downloading the wrong themes, there are Enlightenment themes
> > > smaller than 100 kB and still fully functional.
> >
> > I just finished updating an E 16 theme (minEguE) In order to make it
fully
> > complient, it ended up being about 500K They can be less, but it is now
> > recomended that the themes have widgets for dialogs, pagers, epplets,
etc.
> > so the theme size has gone up quite a bit. Still, there is no reason for
a
> > theme to be over 1MB unless it has something special about it (like huge
> > images, backgrounds, sounds, etc.)
>
> I'm talking about themes such as Cakewoman, which is graphically
> absolutely minimalistic, still very pretty and only about 60 kB. It
> hasn't got epplet imageclasses, though. Otherwise, it's completely. I
> recommend it -- very nice to your eyes. :)
>
> > I'm loving E :-)
>
> I do, too. But I've given up to try and learn the subtle science of
> making E themes. I leave that to others until E becomes stable and
> there is a standard specification for themes. Maybe even that
> graphical IDE for themes will get done that Rasterman promised us
> around 0.14 or 0.15...
>

The config stuff is about the same between 15 and 16...  things got moved a
bit, but all the classes and things work the same way, it's just more
organised now. It's really not to hard... pop open a theme and play :-)

--Ben