RE: GEP-2 (metathemer)

[snickell stanford edu]

I don't think themes SHOULD be able to make an arbitrary set of changes.
I'll not go into the arguments again, but I think its asking for bad
usability (even if we aren't the ones that directly incur it but theme
authors).

-Seth

Quoting Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>:

> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 19:53, Calum Benson wrote:
> > I think my main concern is about the 'extensibility' aspect...
> allowing
> > a theme to specify arbitrary(ish) Gconf pairs is a neat idea and
> easy
> > enough to design a UI for, but unfortunately in the real world most
> apps
> > aren't themeable via GConf... 
> 
> 	Sure; but of course - it's pretty easy for a theme to provide a set
> of
> gconf key/value pairs:
> 
> [snip: theme_foo_gconf_pairs]
> # Turn off the taskbar
> /foo/bar/taskbar FALSE
> 
> # No nautilus frobnication
> /foo/bar/frobincation FALSE
> [/snip]
> 
> 	etc. without having really any impact on the UI; at least that's how
> I
> read the requirement - which seems excellent to me since I hadn't
> thought of it ;-)
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> -- 
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> 
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