Re: My first impression of GNOME 3

[Massimo Gengarelli <gengarel cs unibo it>]

Il 20/04/2011 00:02, Adam Williamson ha scritto:
> On theming: I believe the GNOME team felt that supporting theming comes
> with more drawbacks than benefits. The drawbacks are that it introduces
> far more complexity - i.e. things that can possibly go wrong, that then
> get blamed on GNOME - and it detracts from the ability to present a
> carefully considered appearance. Neither Windows nor OS X (nor any
> smartphone OS I'm aware of) provides an official UI and support for
> theming, and there's no great outcry that it should be available on
> those; it's the norm for the appearance of the desktop to be defined by
> the provider. It's likely that third-party extensions for theming will
> be developed, but this will make it properly clear that this is an
> unsupported thing and the 'official' appearance of GNOME is defined.
> (correct me if I'm wrong, anyone).

I'm not adding anything on the discussion, primarly because I sense most
of the things that Sebastian dislikes are Ubuntu bugs - it sounds like
that the PPA isn't ready to be used yet; but I'd like to show you my
appreciation on this point: I *definitely* agree with you on the theming
subject and I'd like to know if this "theme-is-really-hard-to-change"
behaviour is really wanted by the developers or not.

If this is wanted, I really think that GNOME found the way to go:
providing a good solid theme would really help developers in getting
their applications more integrated with the general UI.

Now, probably the theme needs to be enhanced a little bit, but this is
*really* the right path to follow.


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