Re: Themes

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Wed, 2004-14-07 at 12:40 -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 14:45 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > And in case anybody didn't notice the first time, Industrial (no idea
> > about SmoothGnome) does not work properly with several applications,
> > such as Yelp and applications written with gtkmm, pygtk, and Gtk#:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142417
> > 
> > I feel that this would be a regression if we default to this theme and
> > we don't fix it. Hopefully we will, but I would personally expect this
> > change to be reverted if the bug isn't fixed before GNOME 2.8.0. It's
> > not my decision though.
> 
> I am trying to prevent these annoying bugs from occuring in SmoothGNOME.
> I do about 1 - 2 weeks of testing with the theme before I make a new
> release, and try to find as many nasty apps as I can (within reason.
> Sometimes its entirely the application's fault, and not the themes).
> If you know of any bugs with this theme, let me know which application
> it happens in, and I'll try to fix it.
> Cheers, Link

IMO the default honours should go to the best maintained theme. If
someone is actively working on SmoothGNOME, but Industrial is
unmaintained then it makes the decision obvious, no?

Cheers,
Ryan