Jonathan Gordon wrote:
1) can we get rid of the redundant settings (forground/background
colour, backdrop, ui viewport, etc)
I'd say if they're truly redundant, dump them. I've been in favour of
having "theme" settings wholly controlled by the theme file for a while
anyway. It does cost a little configurability (in that there's no good
way on-target to change mono-themes to fit different color schemes on
color targets) but that problem can be addressed with something like a
simple "theme generator" plugin that lets you pick fore and background
colors and outputs appropriate files.
2) can we come up with a workable solution to make the skin buffer
user configurable?
At the very "worst" case wouldn't this simply be an option like the
current "max files in folder" options? Maybe something like "Max theme
size" with human-friendly options like "small" "medium" "large" and
"giant" (with "medium" corresponding to our current settings, small
being calculated for a text-heavy but image-free theme, "giant" assuming
a backdrop for every screen and twice the current image usage for each
screen, and "large" falling somewhere between for example).
