[Usability]Re: [Galeon-devel] Re: toolbar issues

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

I just made a quick glade mockup to illustrate what i'm talking about,
see http://people.nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/theme-properties.png.

Each tab in there should have exactly the same look and feel, but just
control a different aspect of the desktop. And let's not throw with
names like Gtk+, sawfish/metacity, or Nautilus, since people shouldn't
need to know whatever funky names the apps have.

Personally i would like to have something like this coexist with
metatheme, since metatheme is more powerful, can control more things,
and can ofcourse create metathemes. But it's a bit bloated for "regular
use".

Cheers
Jorn

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:43, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 05:12, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > Well yeah i don't think we should have a throbber capplet per say, just
> > some central way to theme the throbber. Also nautilus uses a bonnobo
> > component for its throbber, is galeon2 going to use this component?
> > 
> > Metatheme should provide central theming. However the one thing that
> > bothers me about it is that gnome has all these individual look and feel
> > capplets, and than may also have metathemer which has a completely
> > different look for each setting than the individual capplets. Perhaps
> > the end solution will be to integrate all the look and feel capplets
> > into metatheme and eliminate the individual capplets.
> 
> I think metatheme itself with all it's editing functionality is way too
> bloated for a standard theming capplet. A better solution would be imho
> to write a set of bonobo controls, with a consistent look and feel, for
> each thing that needs theming. These could then be used in both
> metatheme and some standard, simpler, capplet.
> 
> Cheers
> Jorn
> 
> > 
> > dave
> > 
> >  
> > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 19:25, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > Although a throbber capplet sounds overkill to me, I agree it would be
> > > nice to share the setting. If it's coming anyway I think we should use
> > > it in galeon too.
> > > 
> > > IMHO something that Gnome misses is a central all-in-one theming
> > > capplet. Ideally you could define your gtk, nautilus, and metacity
> > > styles here, as well as your throbber. And create metathemes. Sounds
> > > like a fun project to me, so again, if there is interest, i would be
> > > willing to hack on it.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Jorn
> > > 
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