On 30/08/06, Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scenario 2) I go to use another machine that's mounting > > the same NFS home directory, or is otherwise getting the > > same GConf values. This machine is running Gnome 2.14, > > which doesn't include Clarius. > > The same thing would happen if you went to a machine running a Gnome > version prior to that which Clearlooks was available in. Or if you > selected a theme that you have installed locally, or any other > combination of possibilities. I think it is slightly unreasonable to > assume we can never add new themes.
Just because we've done things that make using multiple Gnome versions difficult in the past doesn't mean we should repeat them now. > > Interim 2) I utter some choice words and post a flame to > > Slashdot and/or OSNews. I go to the theme manager and > > change my theme back to Clearlooks. > > > > Scenario 3) I go back to do some work on the machine that's > > running Gnome 2.16. See scenario 1. > > It's running Clearlooks, but with a slightly "updated" appearance. > > > > > Friends don't let friends churn keys. > > I know several people have already pointed out the relevant points about > the change, but I just want to reassure you I did consider these > scenarios before I made the changes. > > There were several reasons for the change. Firstly, I wanted to make > sure we didn't go through "appearance churn". The new cairo based > clearlooks engine provides several changes to the UI. I wanted to make > the 2.16 appearance more consistent with the 2.14 appearance. I also had > several people mention to me that they did not want Gnome to go down the > "glossy appearance" route. It was therefore critical that the glossy > scrollbars were toned down before the release. Unfortunately I was under > the impression that I made this change before the UI freeze, which I now > realise was incorrect. Secondly, the change did not affect any > translatable strings, so I assumed it did not affect the string freeze. > > The reason I felt it necessary to make our own gtk+ theme (in > gnome-themes, rather than relying on the one provided by gtk-engines), > is that we probably will want to make more conservative changes in the > future than the author of Clearlooks wants to make. > > Having spoken to Richard about this problem (unfortunately he has been > very busy and we didn't get a chance to discuss it before), he seems > willing to keep the Clearlooks gtkrc as conservative as Gnome wants it, > and put more exciting changes into a separate gtkrc. With the permission > of the release team, I would be happy to revert the changes, and change > the one line that makes the scrollbars blue in the Clearlooks gtkrc. If the theme author is okay with it, this sounds like it would make everyone happy. James. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
