2008/9/30 Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Le mardi 30 septembre 2008, à 12:31 +0200, Benjamin Berg a écrit :
> > 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.
> > Another idea is to highlight deprecated widgets in applications, by
> > changing their colour to be eg. some shade of red.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The idea to change the colour of deprecated widgets is to expose any
> > application that is still using them. This would hopefully encourage
> > maintainers and others to write patches and port applications to use
> > non-deprecated widgets.
> >
> > Both of these changes would be reverted in time for the first beta
> > release of GNOME (due on February 4th). If this is implemented, we would
> > probably also have a "Clearlooks Stable" theme, so that it is still
> > possible to use the normal Clearlooks theme for eg. documentation
> > purposes.
> >
> >
> > Do you think that exposing deprecated widgets and theme related bugs
> > like this is a good idea?
>
> I like the idea. But I would guess distros would patch this out :/ Maybe
> we can do some opt-in thing, with a gconf key or a file somewhere in
> $HOME that would enable this kind of stuff so that users of distros can
> still participate in this kind of testing if they want?
>
> Vincent
>
> --
> Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.
>

It is useless if it is optional (people won't enable it).
It should be IMHO hardcoded.

-- 
Andrea Cimitan - http://www.cimitan.com
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