Il 20/04/2011 00:02, Adam Williamson ha scritto: > On theming: I believe the GNOME team felt that supporting theming comes > with more drawbacks than benefits. The drawbacks are that it introduces > far more complexity - i.e. things that can possibly go wrong, that then > get blamed on GNOME - and it detracts from the ability to present a > carefully considered appearance. Neither Windows nor OS X (nor any > smartphone OS I'm aware of) provides an official UI and support for > theming, and there's no great outcry that it should be available on > those; it's the norm for the appearance of the desktop to be defined by > the provider. It's likely that third-party extensions for theming will > be developed, but this will make it properly clear that this is an > unsupported thing and the 'official' appearance of GNOME is defined. > (correct me if I'm wrong, anyone).
I'm not adding anything on the discussion, primarly because I sense most of the things that Sebastian dislikes are Ubuntu bugs - it sounds like that the PPA isn't ready to be used yet; but I'd like to show you my appreciation on this point: I *definitely* agree with you on the theming subject and I'd like to know if this "theme-is-really-hard-to-change" behaviour is really wanted by the developers or not. If this is wanted, I really think that GNOME found the way to go: providing a good solid theme would really help developers in getting their applications more integrated with the general UI. Now, probably the theme needs to be enhanced a little bit, but this is *really* the right path to follow. -- Massimo Gengarelli <[email protected]> "The Center promises to always provide a safe testing environment. In dangerous testing environments, the Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it." -- GLaDOS _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
