On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 15:19 +0200, Andrea Cimitan wrote: > > > 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.
I do hope that by "hardcoded" you don't mean "can't opt out". -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
