Re: Appearance Capplet Ideas

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 8 Apr 2007, at 16:40, Jens Granseuer wrote:
>
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> 1) putting the metatheme stuff above everything else implies that
> saving/choosing a theme there also includes settings like fonts,
> background, menus & toolbars which it (usually) does not (and
> should not).

Why not?

> 2) the metatheme selection seems like a much more natural entry
> point for new users; it does have the disadvantage that it probably
> won't be used much afterwards, though. It looks like we can't
> have both.

I think metathemes are a nice way of creating, distributing and
choosing a set of appearance settings. I don't think this is "new user"
only functionality.

Regards,

Thomas