RE: GEP-2 (metathemer)
- From: Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>
- To: Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>
- Cc: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>, Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>, campd ximian com, dobey free fr, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>, Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>, Suzanna Smith <suzanna smith sun com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: RE: GEP-2 (metathemer)
- Date: 19 Sep 2002 10:34:50 +0100
Hi Seth,
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:51, snickell stanford edu wrote:
> 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).
Great - a requirements debate ! :-)
I don't quite see why it's asking for bad usability to allow themes to
change arbitrary settings; why is that ? perhaps have some method for
only allowing settings that are publicly / tweakable by control-center
to be changed - good taste would rather dictate that anyway.
Presumably we shouldn't have settings such as 'boolean
make_ui_unusable' anyway though ? :-)
Could you expand on your objection, so Bill can write a comment up ?
Regards,
Michael.
--
mmeeks gnu org <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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