On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:56:55 -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Frederik, > >> I already explained why it is INVALID.. > > Actually you had not. It didn't seem you understood my bug report, as you > addressed the issue of D.E. detection - an entirely different concept.
Your request is about two different things : 1/our theme should adapt to KDE colors settings 2/our theme color settings should adaptable.. 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.. It is up to the desktop environment to configure GTK theme color settings.. This is why this bug is invalid.. It should be filed against kdebase (and upstream, not to Mdk database :)) 2/galaxy (GTK) should be adaptable.. Our theme was design by our graphic team with a specific color set.. It has not been designed to allow all sorts of color changes.. This is why this bug was INVALID (ok, on this part, it could be a WONTFIX..) >> Bugzilla is not a place to discuss, cooker is the right place.. > > I already had made similar suggestion on Cooker concerning Geramik, which got > a postitive response. I would appreciate a response to the content of my > response. I think everybody already know my feelings reading Gemarik :)) > Since you are a Gnome developer, it may be that you think that I'm suggesting > that Gnome become "subserviant" to KDE in this manor. I am not -- I am > suggesting that both Gnome and KDE coordinate colors in Mandrake 9.1, thus > raising usability to be more like that of Mac OS or Windows. Agreed.. As I said above, this should be filled upstream.. Also responding to Bret Baptist : >There is no reason to not allow color changes in a non-pixmap GTK theme. Just >look what this guy has done with RedHats Bluecurve. Do you think we can use >this engine's code? >This would allow people to have the same color scheme across GTK and QT. With >a simple app in Gnome you could adjust both GTK and QT color settings. I suggest you look at Bluecurve (aka Wonderland) and at Galaxy (GTK) code.. Galaxy uses a fixed set of colors (8 shades of gray, 3 shades of blue + 1 or 2 other colors of arrow and stuff like that) our graphic designer tested on several displays to make sure they looks OK.. BlueCurve only uses 3 colors and from these 3 colors, it generates its own palette. I agree we could make our palette configurable but I'm afraid drawing could be screwed a lot because of the theme design.. Moreover, it would be fondamentaly broken to have our own app to configure the theme.. If it should be configurable, it should autoconfigure itself as much as possible.. This is CLEARLY not a job for Mdk 9.1... -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSoft
