On Fri May 31 10:43 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> |   I don't have a problem with the GTK widgets perse', just that they
> don't
> | really "fit in" when using KDE. Also, since KDE's widget styles are
> capable
> | of different colors, if one chooses a green or blue (Mandrake colors!)
> KDE
> | theme with say a BeOS-style widget, GTK apps start to stick out like a
> sore
> | thumb. :-(

Uh, you do realize that it's trivial to theme GTK widgets, right?
(although the GTK+ 1 themer seems to have disappeared from cooker...)

> That can be solved more easily (and fix the same issues for even more
> software) by trying to encourage themes that are compatible between GTK
> and Qt, or Gnome/KDE. Or are you going to ask the GIMP / Evolution
> /Gnumeric etc developers to switch to Qt also? If there were say 10
> high-quality themes with equivalents for
> KDE/Gnome/Sawfish/IceWM/Metacity/Enlightenment, and setting one of them
> allowed you to choose to set the others, then there wouldn't be a
> problem, would there?

That's a good idea...  How much of a hack would it be to do a generic
theming engine, where by installing a "meta-theme", multiple wm's and
widget sets would update?  This could be a nice feature for 9.0.

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