Re: judging 500+ themes - categories for giving points

["Michael V. DePalatis" <mvd gatech edu>]

On Nov 26, 2007 3:11 PM, Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl> wrote:
> Just like with scripts listing, we can have themes listed and sorted
> by various categories. My idea is to create several categories and
> give points/names for each theme in those categories.
> Over time we will look at each theme and give it points ;-)

This sounds like a pretty good idea.

> So, I was thinking about following categories:
> (also I give the answer for my current theme mxflat)
>
>
> - number of theme config customization options (just count them) - 88
> - number of title config options - 26
> - number of buttons config options - 38
> - number of borders config options - 24

However, what I do not like about this is the usefulness of such a
system. Do we get any really useful information by simply counting the
number of options a theme gives you? That seems like a rather
arbitrary thing to "rank" themes on.

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