Re: Default theme for GNOME



On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 16:10, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:13, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > I just added support to gnome-themes/gnome-control-center to view the
> > accessibility 'metathemes'.  I'd like to ship GNOME with a nice set of
> > metathemes too, including a good default. 
> 
> I'd /love/ to do this. :) 
> 
> >  Does anyone have any suggestions for what the default should be? 
> >  Unless we change things, we will ship with Atlanta as the default
> >  windowmanager (assuming metacity) and the standard GTK+ theme with the
> >  awful light blue.
> 
> I have no quarrel with the 'awful light blue' but Atlanta... I have
> issues with ;)
> 
> > WINDOW MANAGER THEMES:
> > ======================
> > Metacity ships with:
> > 
> >  * AgingGorilla
> >  * Atlanta
> >  * Bright
> >  * Crux
> >  * Esco
> >  * Gorilla
> >  * Metabox
> > 
> > Sawfish has analogs of most of these, though not Atlanta (which is the
> > default for Metacity)
> 
> I'd love to see metabox as the default, personally, but I understand it
> isn't to everyone's taste.
> 
> > ICON THEMES:
> > ============
> > 
> > We really only have one icon theme currently, so that seems to be a
> > no-brainer here.  Still, it would be nice to try to turn some of the
> > older nautilus themes into icon themes and have them be available in the
> > future.
> 
> Dave Camp has a script for this purpose, I believe. It's almost
> mandatory (IMHO) that we convert the old nautilus themes over; otherwise
> we've got a big visual regression for most users.

Related bug: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85940
Note: since opening this bug I've come to accept that gnome's look has
changed since 1.4, but still, I'd like to suggest that any default icon
theme be picked soas to best match the rest of the gnome image. Of the
themes on art.gnome.org, I think Ximian-South does that best but is
perhaps overly stialized for a default theme.


--Ben

> > There are, of course, any number of themes in art.gnome.org that we can
> > add to gnome-themes (crux, thinice and mist come to mind).  Doing this
> > incurs a support cost of course (though the engines in gtk-engines are
> > not very maintained.)  It would be nice to also try to guarantee some
> > level of compatibility from release to release.  That is, make sure that
> > people don't lose a theme when they upgrade to a newer GNOME.
> 
> Crux has (in the past) had a number of crashes caused by the theme. I
> have no idea if there are similar problems for mist or thinice, though
> there have not been reports to b.g.o and I have used mist personally for
> several weeks now without problems. I'd certainly like to ship mist, at
> least, if we can get the maintainer to promise to fix crasher bugs
> reported against it :)
> 
> > Thoughts,
> 
> In a nutshell: YES. :)
> 
> Luis
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