Re: Theme patriation

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Iain * <iaingnome gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org> wrote:
>>
>> Do you think this is a good plan?
>>
>
> In short: no.
>
> In long(ish):
>
> * If a program hangs, the user cannot close the window
> * each program needs a copy of the theme parsed in memory, the images
> created in memory
> * theme caches (what little there are) are cached per app, rather than
> per theme.
> * windows don't all look/behave the same (I know this is one of your
> plus points, but in my eyes this is a large negative)
> * each program is linked to the metacity library...we're trying to
> reduce library count for each program, not increase them.

Oh, another: GTK3 has enough on its plate without this being added as well :)

iain