Re: Legacy apps and themes

[textshell neutronstar dyndns org]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:17:22PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:36:00PM +0200, textshell neutronstar dyndns org wrote: 
> > I alway hated KDE's feature to change to colors of non KDE/QT apps and diabled
> > it quickly. Many athena (or whatever) applications look but ugly with the
> > "wrong" colors. I hope we can find some place one of the capplets (yes, not
> > their name anymore) to disable it, if consence is that it should go into the
> > settings daemon. Please.
> 
> There are already 4-5 too many control panels again. We should not add
> more, especially not for this not-very-useful feature... we need to
> merge some of the existing ones.
> 
> Someone still has to write the advanced powertweak control panel...
> such an easy app to write, and so many people whining about it. You'd
> be a hero. ;-)
> 
> > I think GNOME should intregrate well with the rest of the desktop, but don't
> > force things to much on the other apps.
> 
> If the grdb thing often causes breakage or sucks, it should just be
> off by default, or not exist.
> 
> > I think I don't need to say that settings daemon should be careful not to even
> > think about doing anything like this if it's running on a KDE or plain WM
> > desktop. (just imagine KDE and GNOME both fight for the xrdb.)
> 
> If you start settings daemon under KDE very bad things happen right
> now (as part of the old Enlightenment background pixmap protocol it
> kills kdestkop, for example). So nothing *new* there at least...
> 

[I don't use KDE at the moment]
That *sucks*! i think we are all talking about interoperability between KDE and
GNOME (D-bus and all). We should really try to fix this. (And no we don't need
an option, just a fix ;-))

Martin H.