Re: Industrial as default theme?

["jorge o. castro" <jorge whiprush org>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> Also, I've just been informed that the THEME MASTER ROCK GOD (you may know
> him from other themes, such as Mist), MISTER DAVE CAMP is working on some
> tweaks for Industrial too. :-)

Just wanted to add in my two cents,

I think that Industrial is a good place to start. I tend to use 
Industrial as my Metacity theme and Bluecurve/Wonderland as my GTK2 
theme, and I keep the default GNOME icons. I think that a "brighter" 
theme is probably in order, anything too close to "Windows 95 battleship 
gray" is too drab.

Since we're on the topic of default theme, what about the icons? Is it 
too early to go pure SVG for a default theme? Choosing a default theme 
needs to be future-proofed, changing it on every release probably isn't 
a good idea, and even though distributors will repackage it how they see 
fit, a "default GNOME theme" needs to be a long term "GNOME look" that 
is pleasing, yet comfortable for people.

If the future is vector-based interfaces, do you guys do that now, or 
later? It would suck if in a year (or whenever) you have to sit down and 
go over this entire process again if your going to make the move from 
pixmaps to SVG. Anyone who has tried "pixmap translated into SVG" themes 
knows that it does feel and look different, so I guess my question is, 
is GNOME ready to just go pure SVG for icons themes?

-jorge

PS - Try the current pixmaps on a high resolution monitor sometime, like 
the ones that are currrently shipping with modern PCs. Scalability of 
the entire interface needs to be addressed _soon_, watching a person 
with poor eyesight adjusting the default pixmap GNOME icons on a 
1600x1200 LCD is painful. I'd love to see pure SVG icons that can scale 
UP and DOWN (with a matching GUI to make this easy) be the standard for 
GNOME.