On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Benjamin Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 19:27 +0200, Martin Lettner wrote: >> the old engines have not been updated for years AFAIK so they are just >> slow and may have non-beautiful code. also the have less features then >> murrine or clearlooks which can look totally different by changing >> some values. >> i dont think we will need eg. crux and industrial, if you something >> special use pixmaps. > > The issue is that porting the themes to pixmap would likely be a step > backward in some regards (eg. RTL languages, colour scheme support). > But it is true that some of the engines are not that much fun to work on > and would likely require quite some overhaul if one wanted to do > anything major on them. However they do mostly work, have been ported to > cairo, are fast and require very little work as is. > > That said, I am not entirely against dropping engines and themes (we > have dropped lighthouseblue, metal and smooth in the past). But I am not > going to make such a decision lightly.
A possible migration path that was suggested by Andreas is porting those themes to the CSS engine. I have found some time to work on it lately, maybe I can get another release out in late April / early May. Best, Rob _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
