Re: Default WM theme settings

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Calum Benson wrote:

> We've just been talking about what our (i.e. Sun's) default window
> manager theme should be when we release 2.0, and the consensus was that
> while we're happy to stick with Crux, we're not keen on the default
> button layout.  Mostly because it's hard to discern the window close
> button amid the decoration, and that button dangerously doubles as the
> window menu via right click.
>
> We think the Crux theme with the MS Windows layout is probably more
> usable for the majority of people coming to GNOME for the first time,
> and we'd prefer to use that as our default.  We may also want to turn on
> the "show app icon on window button" option as that gives more of an
> impression that there's something clickable there-- without it, the
> button is virtually invisible.  (I think these are also the default Crux
> settings that Ximian use, although it's been so long since I saw an
> uncustomised Ximian desktop I don't rightly remember...)
Also, with the default blue colour for the selected window highlight, 
you get a black cross on a dark blue background which is very difficult 
to make out. (unless this has changed since I tried out the default 
button layout -- I am using the windows style one right now).  Changing 
the colour of the icon on any button shown on the left corner to white 
would probably solve this problem though.

I don't care that much what the default button layout is though.

James.