This sounds great.  What do you guys (the bb developers - sorry, can't
remember your names) think?

Maybe we could get some good themes together and see what we get?


Jerrold.


On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:45:35PM +0100, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:03:48 +1300
> jerrold poh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, I'm thinking maybe putting some matching themes into the
> > default installation would be a good idea. I really like the
> > combination of the Adept theme (from Sawfish), along with the Xeneon
> > theme (for GTK), and I've kind of made an Adept theme for Blackbox,
> > which I've been thinking about putting up on themes.org, but am not
> > sure if I'm allowed to copy their theme ...
> 
> I agree with that. It would be nice to have some Blackbox themes
> that closely match with some good and widely used gtk/qt themes. The
> Gtk theme Xeno* family has a very professional, clean look, and I'm
> already busy making a good machting Blackbox theme.
> 
> Also I'm researching some different Meta-theme solutions. That way,
> when the user chooses a theme, blackbox and gtk and qt and motif and
> xaw3d could change to corresponding looks, when available.
> 
> I think the layout of gtk themes already is prepared for this (e.g.:
> 
> /usr/share/themes/MyUberCoOlTheMe/gtk/gtkrc
> /usr/share/themes/MyUberCoOlTheMe/qt2/
> /usr/share/themes/MyUberCoOlTheMe/blackbox/
> /usr/share/themes/MyUberCoOlTheMe/xaw/
> 
> And when there is standardized on a solution to signal theme changes,
> one could select a nice theme from the Whatever Control Center and
> have Blackbox nicely react as well. Of course Blackbox should always
> retain its own elegant style switching solution. (IMHO bb makes for a
> very cool and complete desktop env. with just some rxvt's and a fast
> fm like ROX)
> 
> sorry for the long rant,
> have fun,
> 
> -- 
> Wilbert Berendsen (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/)
> 
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