Re: [Fwd: gnome-themes branched for 2.10]

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 19 Mar 2005, at 9:44 am, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> Il giorno lun, 07/03/2005 alle 16.00 +0000, Thomas Wood ha scritto:
>
> > Now that this is branched, would it be a good time to try putting
> > Industrial in?
>
> It could be interesting.
>
> > Anyway, it's definitely the time for discussion as to what is included
> > for 2.12. We need discussion on this list rather than letting people
> > make a lot of unhelpful noise on d-d-l.
>
>
> Well, just a brainstorming of long and short term tasks:
>      1. put Clearlooks engine in gtk-engines, enabling progress bar
>         animation :-)

Clearlooks is now in gtk-engines. Progress bar animation won't be 
enabled by default - it's a bit of a hack.

>      2. use a well-fitted-for-l10n/i18n name for Clearlooks entry in
>         theme selector capplet
>      3. remove some icon option from gnome-themes (or at least remove
>         gnome-fs-regular image keeping only the folder icon: see for
>         example Crux)

A good idea, and we also need to find some critical images now like 
directory accept. Taking Crux as an example, I was going to e-mail the 
original author to find out if they where able to do some more folder 
icons, but it's possible they may not be interested.

>      4. provide 3 control options for each engine; i.e. Simple-Green,
>         Simple-Blue, and Simple-Red so users will have the ability to
>         change the color scheme of their desktops keeping the
>         appearance. Maybe the same color scheme for each provided
>         engine.

Not so sure about this - might add too much clutter. Personally I'd like
to see a little app to do this. I'm already looking into doing this with
a few other people.


>      5. add a full icon theme, maybe something breaking the GNOME
>         palette and "soft" like Aqua or Crystal. Of course this means
>         provide a LOT of pixmaps.

Aqua/Crystal, probably not. Aqua is Apple's copyright, and Crystal is
too much associated with KDE. However, there are a number of pretty
complete icon themes starting to emerge, so would be good to look into
these, if not for gnome-themes, then for gnome-themes-extras.

>      6. add a "Kids" theme, something attractive for 8 years old
>         users ;-) Do you remember Copland screenshots?

Sounds a nice idea, what about using a theme using the Gartoon icon
theme?

>      7. ask theme creators to avoid inclusion of stock icons in gtkrc

Yeah I think this is pretty much agreed. I've been working with the 
Gartoon author to get this done, but it doesn't seem to be straight 
forward.

>      8. port accessibility icon themes from gtkrc to icon theme

Good idea - I'll have a look into this.

>      9. convert high contrast icons to SVG (jimmac should have some of
>         those icons yet ready)
>     10. include some gtk+ stock icons in g-i-t (see
>         http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167446 )
>     11. maybe spit g-t in g-t-pleasure and g-t-accessibility

I don't think we want any more splitting. We need to concentrate on 
quality rather than quantity.

>     12. add Industrial cursor theme to g-i-t and enable it
>         in /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme Gconf key
>     13. add a gnome-fs-computer icon in g-i-t. Currently we are using
>         gnome-fs-client for Computer desktop icon: this is bad.

Hopefully jimmac will have some answers for the others :-)

-Thomas