I am not the person that wrote the original mail, but to some extent I see what he means (I do think he could have brought it in a more constructive way). Anyway, here it is.
If you change the "theme" of nautilus, the icons will look different from other applications. While I agree that there is a default theme that can be used to match the way the rest of the applications look, wouldn't it be nice if selecting a different nautilus theme also changed the current stock items so other apps would be changed as well? And also, since most GNOME configuration is done in the control panel, wouldn't that be a more logical place for it. I don't know if it could be combined with sawfish and gtk+ themes, but something like the meta theme stuff done by ximian comes to mind.
As for the fonts, I think the use smoother graphics thing to enable gtk+ defaults fonts is not the way it should be either, but that's irrelevant since you already knew that :P
Anyway, since this might look rather negative (it's not meant that way), I would like to add that I LOVE the job you done thusfar, nautilus seems faster, more stable, en prettier than ever before, thanks for a great piece of software!!
Just my 2 cents...
Remco de Jong
The industree B.V.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com
> [mailto:nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com]On Behalf Of Seth Nickell
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:35 AM
> To: Mattias Eriksson
> Cc: nautilus-list lists eazel com
> Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] The screenshots made me think....
>
>
> > So the application that's going to be one of the most
> central gnome apps
> > doesn't look like gnome by defautl?!?!? Don't do this
> please... if you
> > think the default gnome settings it to ugly or something,
> try to replace
> > them instead.
>
> I once again challenge you to tell me what the hell "looks like GNOME"
> means. If you mean, looks like GMC, then no. But those were arbitrary
> decisions to start with. To my knowledge we break no
> conventions, visual
> or otherwise, that a majority of GNOME programs follow. Until
> there is a
> style guide, the idea of a gnome look is incredibly nebulous anyway.
> Sometimes you can't use a 100% generic interface too. Does the GNOME
> panel look like GNOME? Not really. It defines all sorts of its own
> conventions. It would suck to try and make everything look exactly
> alike, you just need to stay within certain bounds. A style guide will
> more clearly define what those bounds are (which Arlo at Eazel will be
> working on, I believe)
>
> -Seth
>
>
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