Re: New member

[Robert Staudinger <robert staudinger gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Benjamin Berg
<benjamin sipsolutions net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 19:27 +0200, Martin Lettner wrote:
>> the old engines have not been updated for years AFAIK so they are just
>> slow and may have non-beautiful code. also the have less features then
>> murrine or clearlooks which can look totally different by changing
>> some values.
>> i dont think we will need eg. crux and industrial, if you something
>> special use pixmaps.
>
> The issue is that porting the themes to pixmap would likely be a step
> backward in some regards (eg. RTL languages, colour scheme support).
> But it is true that some of the engines are not that much fun to work on
> and would likely require quite some overhaul if one wanted to do
> anything major on them. However they do mostly work, have been ported to
> cairo, are fast and require very little work as is.
>
> That said, I am not entirely against dropping engines and themes (we
> have dropped lighthouseblue, metal and smooth in the past). But I am not
> going to make such a decision lightly.

A possible migration path that was suggested by Andreas is porting
those themes to the CSS engine. I have found some time to work on it
lately, maybe I can get another release out in late April / early May.

Best,
Rob