Re: Testing dark themes and marking deprecated widgets



Hi,

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 00:49 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 12:31 +0200, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> > Do you think that exposing deprecated widgets and theme related bugs
> > like this is a good idea?
> 
> I very much welcome the idea of testing applications against a dark
> theme. That sounds like a great idea to me.

OK, there does not seem to be much controversy here.

> But I don't think that exposing deprecated widgets in the theme is a
> good idea. If developers care about deprecated widgets, they should
> compile their software with GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED and friends. It's not
> the job of the theme to warn about the use of deprecated widgets.

This is true. Pretty much all could be fixed by using these tools (not
sure if there is anything to look eg. into glade files). But it does not
seem like many maintainers are using them very often.
The difference with using a theme is that not only the maintainer sees
the issue, but everyone with the theme does.

The gtkrc snippet to mark deprecated widgets would look like
 http://www.gnome.org/~bberg/deprecated-widgets.gtkrc
To try it you can appended it to most themes.

Benjamin

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