On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 08:07 +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 April, 2011 06:02 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > 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. > I don't use OS X but what about XP's >Display Properties > Themes > stands for? Not for theming? This User Interface is official from > Microsoft. As for smartphone, I understand, but with a 2005-era Sony > Erickson Walkman, you can change the appearance of the phone with a > third party theme and with an official User Interface from Sony > Erickson. As for WinXP they defined theme as: > A theme is a set of background plus a set of sounds, icons, > and other elements to help you personalized your computer with > one click. > > The keywords are: "elements" and "one click" no, no config files to > touch. Anyway, I know GNOME Shell was designed differently from the > ground up, but themes is a standard feature on any D.E. AFAIK or else > we are living in caves. > And Windows 7 offers a very improved way to change the > appearance(theming) of the desktop. > > Please clarify me on your points above.
you know, you're right, and I'd forgotten that. I guess what's interesting is how little used it seems to be; I rarely see a Windows system with non-default icons or widgets. Changing the background seems to be common, but not anything else. I wonder if anyone's looked into that. (The old Sony Ericsson phones, BTW, in my experience make a good argument for theming being a bad idea; I had one too, and of all the themes I tried on it, a good half would result in some kind of bug.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
