Re: [Usability]Re: A "cheat" to full window manager integration

[Christopher Warner <zanee kernelcode com>]

Daniel Borgmann wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 00:18, Christopher Warner wrote:
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> > Yes I am very aware (as the same thing goes for kde if you've ever tried 
> > to make a theme there);  Still you are talking really personal 
> > preference.  Great, you made a theme, and it goes well with the default 
> > Raleigh, thats great. However that is a personal preference so you don't 
> > see a reason to create a new Gtk style for it. If you read my post I 
> > still feel that they can be kept seperate but at the same time they can 
> > also be unified so people with the know how or the want can create one 
> > theme instead of many. It'd also allow for a decent format to come 
> > about; infact including sounds in the theme would be nice too even 
> > though it'd make themes chunky. I disagree that there would be 
> > non-existant gain if anything it'd unify things a bit yet still allowing 
> > choice to exist. One someone doesn't want to use the unified theme them 
> > fine, they can use seperate themes. As I said above more code, more work 
> > but it'd allow for a more unifying desktop.
> >    
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> Why am I talking about personal preferences? I just stated that it adds
> a lot of overhead. If you want this to be optional, where is the
> difference to meta themes?
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The difference is that it changes the creation of the theme.. with one 
file format it means that a tool can be written for designers to create 
themes. Which I think would be alot easier than the way it is right now.