RE: theming issues

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 02:55, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Sean Middleditch [mailto:elanthis awesomeplay com] 
> > A very clean
> > refreshing modern new look for GNOME 2.4 might do a lot for users,
> > psychologically, since little things like that seem to have a lot
> > larger  effect on people than it should.  ~,^
> 
> Not if people never see it, because distro do their own thing.

The distros many of us use (rh, ximian, mdk) do their own thing. We
shouldn't neglect what CVS-based developers or debian users (just to
name a few) should see. I'm looking at grabbing morphix[1] but I'm
really afraid of what I'll see when I boot up- i.e., how much pain I'll
need to go through to make a morphix CD look pretty at startup. GNOME
should be beautiful by default- distros should modify it for branding
reasons, not because it's butt ugly.

Luis

[1]A gnome2.2-based knoppix