I think it's a good idea.
I opened a similar bug a while back and it was also rejected.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497116
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:30:48 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [email protected]> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Parametrisable colors
> for window borders, system icons and controls> > On 04/02/2008, Kenneth Wimer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > On Friday 01 February 2008 16:04:53 François
> Degrave wrote:> > > Hi everyone,> > >> > > I think a new theme which would
> provide Ubuntu a fresher look would be> > > really useful. However, orange -
> and brown - are not always the colors> > > people prefer, and even if it was
> the case, most people like to change> > > the look of the system after a
> while.> > >> > > I would suggest the whole theme should be parametrisable.
> The user> > > should be able to choose (within 3 clicks...) not only the
> color of the> > > window borders, but also the color of the system icons and
> controls.> >> > I think that this is a very interesting idea but it would be
> quite a feat to> > pull off, not to mention it being so late in the cycle. I
> would suggest> > adding this as a blueprint for hardy+1. We'd need more than
> artwork to> > accomplish this so having things well planned and defined will
> make it much> > more likely to happen.> >> > > For the moment, the problem is
> that in order to change the look of the> > > system, the user has to choose
> another theme than Human (which is the> > > most clean one, but not
> parametrisable), and then search the internet> > > for icon themes that would
> match his desires, when parametrisable colors> > > for windows, system icons
> and controls would make that task easy as can be.> > >> > Regarding changing
> the colors of the window borders, I actually did a> patch to
> gnome-appearance-applet to allow color parametrization of the> window frames,
> see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498854.> It is simple an
> non-intrusive.> > It adds an extra "Window frame" button to the Colors tab in
> the theme> customization dialog, and allows themes to control>
> @window_{fg,bg}_color in their gtkrc files.> > The problem is that the colors
> need also be respected in the metacity> themes, so it is not guaranteed to
> work on all themes. Most will work> though.> > The patch was rejected because
> it was "bloat". I fail to see how it is> more bloated than allowing to change
> the colors of the tooltips. Go> figure.> > Maybe if people from ubuntu-art
> start commenting on that bug... Some> good old lobbying :-)> > Cheers,>
> Mikkel> > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list> [email protected]>
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