Re: gtk-engines update

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik sun com>]

On 20 Jan 2002, Glynn Foster wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 18:21, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > The way the theme switcher should work now:
> > 
> >  - we should have a schema in libgnome for the theme name gconf key
> >  - theme switcher just gets/sets that key
> >  - gnome-settings-daemon propagates the key to the XSETTING
> >    for the theme name
> >  - GTK will pick that up
> 
> Hrm, I was just thinking...maybe this should be per-session
> configuration? I'm trying desperately to think of a reason why but can't
> right now...it just seems like the right logic to have. But perhaps
> making it even easier than bringing up a capplet to change it would
> suffice instead?
> 

Imagive having two sessions, one on a old pentium converted to x terminal
(or say a sunray) and one localy on a fast machine (say laptop) with
xrender and all the other goodies. You would want to use different fonts
and themes on the two for optimal perfomance/looks.

> 		Thoughts, comments ..
> 
> 				Glynn :)
> 

	Sander

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