Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: GNOME theme in Mozilla (was GNOME user environment brainstorming)

[Caleb "J." Land <bokonon rochester rr com>]

On 25 May 2001 10:05:59 +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:19:07AM +0100, P.S.S.Camp wrote:
> > I have Ximian 1.2 which 1200+ users across campus have access via
> > the exceed Xserver on NT boxes to solaris, debian and redhat, if gnome
> > became more bandwidth intensive (like very early versions on Ximian) we
> > would no be able to change our standard X desktop to gnome, if
> > anything gnome could be a little more light weight in places. 
> > 
> > A network-friendly gnome is a real issue for us, most apps seem work out
> > of the Box.
> 
> I think thats really important too. And with Gtk themes a 
> systems-administrator has control over what look to default to and what the
> bandwidth implications of that are. I'm just suggesting that that shouldn't
> be a constraint on the default.

Hmmm, now that I think about it, I agree.  Users/Admins who want a fast
theme that runs well over a network will most likely know what they're
doing, or be capable of finding out how to change the default theme for
their users.  I imagine that these users are in the minority, so I think
that the networkability of a theme shouldn't be taken into too much
consideration for the default theme.  That said, I prefer the simple new
default theme over more compilcated ones (though I would like to have
scrollbar arrows going both directions on boths sides of the scrollbar).

Though one should also take into consideration the usability of the
theme.  I can see how the Crux theme would be a bit difficult to read
menu selections with for some people.