On Friday 21 February 2003 6:22 am, Frederic Crozat wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:58:01 +0100, Craig Drummond wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In reply to Frederic Crozat, I'd like to know why the folowing is > > WRONG??? > > > >> 1/ is WRONG by design.. a GTK (or any other toolkit BTW) theme should > >> never be adapted to detect which colors the current desktop (whatever > >> desktop environment) is running.. I don't care if ONE theme (Geramik) is > >> doing that, this is wrong.. > > > > ...because? The only reason I can see is that Geramik reads its colour > > settings from a Qt/KDE based config file. What's the problem with this? > > Isn't it better that a theme designed as multi-toolkit (Geramik, QtCurve, > > Blue/FreeCuve, Galaxy) also use the same colour settings? Otherwise, > > what's the point? Hard-coding colours into a theme is just plain lazy. I > > don't use GNOME, so I'm not sure if you can change colours there. If not, > > then wouldn't the best thing to do be create a GNOME control > > centre-applet that sets GNOME colours, and also writes these to ~/.qt/qtc > > (and the KDE files)? > > > > Also the theme is not adapting itself to whatever desktop is running - it > > does not know which desktop is running - it just *always* reads its > > colour from the qt file. > > I already explain it is up to the DESKTOP environment to adapt theme, not > the reverse... Geramik approach is wrong by design.. It is fixing the > consequences of KDE not customizing GTK theme colors.. The best approach is > to fix root of the problem (ie KDE not customizing theme colors). > > FYI, GNOME doesn't have dialog to change theme colors... So this problem > is currently not a problem under GNOME.. >
Sooo you are saying that a limitation that GTK has, that can be fairly easily overcome, should not be done? You think that we should take a step back to only taking the colors for themes that theme authors give us? That seems a *bit* backwards to me. One of the things that sooo many people love about Linux is being able to customize it how they like. > What you are asking for is clearly based on a KDE centric point of view.. No, I think that it is based on the most customization possible point of view. The reason that it seems to be KDE centric is because it *has* the ability to be customizable. -- Bret Baptist Systems and Technical Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 x17 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services ------------------------------------------ Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
