Re: Issues with the appearance capplet

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Here are some comments based on the appearance capplet in 2.19.3; I
> would file bugs for these, but there is no component for the
> appearance capplet yet...
>   

Thanks for you comments.

> - "Change background" in the nautilus context menu on the desktop is broken now,
>   since gnome-background-properties has vanished. At the very least, the new
>   capplet needs to grow an option to show the background tab initially.
>   

Yes, that's definitely needed.

> - The background tab is only showing thumbnails. This is a regression compared
>   to the background capplet, which showed some useful metadata.
>   

Like Thomas, I also don't find the metadata displayed in 
gnome-background-properties that important. But it will at least be 
available as tooltips in 2.20.

> - The capplet has some issues where it is not willing to shrink back
> to its old width
>   after it has  been made wider.
>
> - In the "Theme Details" dialog, the theme names in the various theme
> lists (Controls, Window Boreder, Icons) have no reason to be bold,
> imo.
>   

IMO the theme names get a bit lost next to the previews with normal 
weight, especially for GTK+ and metacity themes. But it would also be OK 
to remove the boldness.

> - The "Pointer" tab shows no cursor themes
>
>   

Obviously because we haven't implemented cursor themes yet...

> - The label for the Toolbar button setting seems to be cut off on the
> "Interface"
>   tab.
>   

I don't have that problem. Maybe it is fixed by now?

> I'm sure a lot of these have been fixed in svn in the meantime...
>   
Or will be fixed. :)

Regards,
Denis