On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 12:31 +0200, Benjamin Berg wrote: > Hello, > > There have been ideas to improve the desktop by modifying the themes to > show problems in application. Specifically I am proposing to use a dark > colour scheme for Clearlooks during the next unstable release cycle.
yes, please. dark themes are usually broken by applications doing the wrong thing; any effort to expose these bugs would be very welcomed both from dark theme users like myself and I guess from the accessibility people as well. > Another idea is to highlight deprecated widgets in applications, by > changing their colour to be eg. some shade of red. this might prove to be a bit problematic, but it might be a good idea - like the "enable --g-fatal-criticals" during the development cycle - if we want to port the desktop away from the deprecated widgets. > By using a dark colour scheme problems with applications that are using > the wrong colours for text can be exposed. Turning Clearlooks to a dark > colour scheme would mean that a lot more applications can be tested and > both the application and the themes can be fixed. and maybe more people will start using dark themes as well. ;-) ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
