On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:43 -0500, Mystilleef wrote: > A theme competition on gnome-look.org and art.gnome.org might be a > good idea. The first rule should be, "No pixmap themes allowed!", > however.
I wouldn't say that. If somebody comes up with a reasonable fast pixmap engine the user wouldn't even have to notice. The existing pixmap engine is however *extremely* slow - a notebook tab easily takes a complete second to render on my P4 2.4 / Radeon 9800. I can recall a posting on the themes list stating that the reason is nobody ever tried to optimize it. Either way, we need to make up at least /some/ rules from the beginning, like - What is the allow colour depth. (I suppose we need to think of terminal clients supporting only 256 colours.) - Is transparency allowed (IIRC widgets with rounded edges are likely to cause problems in some scenarios). - Possibly define a colour palette. Do we want to keep the current default icon set? In which case the theme needs to complement it's colours. - ...? -Samuel -- ------------------------------------------------------ | Samuel Abels | http://www.debain.org | | spam ad debain dod org | knipknap ad jabber dod org | ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
