Re: toolbar issues

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

Gtk provides toolbar theming, gtk themes should theme stock icons, gnome
apps should use gtk => nautilus should use gtk.

Think of it this way, theme writers start writing killers gtk themes
with toolbar icons that are rad unfortunately you don't ever see those
icons, since your current nautilus theme overides them always.

Theme writers should theme toolbars at the gtk level ( i would love to
see gorilla gtk theme, probably would be rad). Fixing this, will force
both nautilus and gtk theme writers to write better themes anyway. 

I really don't understand what is so special about nautilus that it
should even have it's own theming mechanism, but that's another
discussion.

dave

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 10:01, David Emory Watson wrote:
> The problem is not that the nautilus toolbar contains custom icons but
> rather that those icons do not override the system defaults (at the very
> least this should be the case inside of nautilus, e.g. when I use the
> Gorilla theme the Go menu should show Gorilla icons).
> 
> If we think that it would be preferable to have all custom icons set in
> a single place (i.e. not set in the nautilus xml theme file, but
> installed in a separate theme file instead) then we might be able to
> talk the theme designers (i.e. tigert and jimmac) into changing their
> themes to use the gtk method.  Then nautilus toolbar icons would
> override gtk icons when installed.  
> 
> The only potential problem I can see with this is that the theme
> designers might not want to their custom icons to apply to everything,
> in which case either gtk must have a way to specify this or nautilus
> will need to handle the job.  I dunno.  Tigert and Jimmac, would either
> of you object if your toolbar icons were installed system wide?
> 
> Would any users object?