Re: themes bust it up...

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt btinternet com>]

* Brennan W Stehling (brennan@offwhite.net) wrote:
> I tried some themese for enlightenment that I downloaded from themes.org
> and it killed me.  Is that common?

You may have tried to use 0.15.x themes with 0.16.x. A common mistake,
and some naughty theme authors mislabel their themes as 0.16
compliant. Just edit ~/.enlightenment/user_theme.cfg to fix.

> The busted themes support is the main reason I am looking at other window
> managers than the default enllightenment for gnome.  Blackbox seems to
> stay out of the way while I can rely on the gnome panel to manage and
> start all applications.
> 
> Can anyone share their ideal window manager setup with the list?  I mean
> one that you are or have used in the past.  I wnt to use one that is
> simple and does not allow the window manager to interfere with gnome.  I
> also want decent themes support.

Not a good question to ask. It's very much like asking what football
team is best, or what religion is nice :) You'll likely:

o Get 15 different answers from a hundred different people
o Get different descriptions of the same thing from different people.
o Receive wildly conflicting and often spurious answers from everyone.
o Provoke normally harmless and peaceful individuals into
  emotion-ridden outbursts and violence
o Get nowhere fast =)

I repeat my earlier statement, spend a few days with each, and choose
whichever suits you best. GNOME-compliant themeable choices include:

Enlightenment
Sawmill
Black Box
IceWM
Window maker
Afterstep (latest version is mostly compliant afaik)

In no particular order. I may have missed some.

Tom.
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