When people change themes regularly, I believe their intension is to try out
themes. When "theme preview" is going to come in, that would be simpler. A
person isn't going to change themes every day, if they want to change
themes, they could just goto the UI and change to any theme they please.
I believe a drop down for a list of themes is a waste of space for the
options panel, people wont use that frequently. I have been told that once
you installed a new theme, the old theme will not be archived (stored on the
system), so switching themes would be harder when the CL comes in.
I thought you guys are picky when it comes to options, and introducing a
themes drop down is actually a useless control which will be rarely used.
There are many other areas where I would like to have options which actually
makes more sense compared to this.
Aaron, I believe the themes page could use a "currently installed theme"
that way the user would know what theme he/she installed. It was possible by
visiting chrome://extensions/, but now its removed from that page.
-- Mohamed Mansour
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:46 AM, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But people like to change themes periodically and also, to choose from
> themes they have already installed and new themes, you (currently) cannot
> incorporate both of them in the theme gallery.
> I saw that happening with regular, non techy users - all of the time (not
> in Chrome, obviously, since they did not have an option up until now, but
> with tons of other programs).
> They choose one, they choose another, they select from their collection
> again and also look for new ones.
> So these should either be combined (existing and total in one page), or an
> option to select a theme should be present, in my opinion.
>
> ☆PhistucK
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:19, Aaron Boodman <a...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Peter Kasting<pkast...@google.com> wrote:
>> > FWIW, I'd prefer if all the ports have this.
>> > There are three reasons for this, one of them silly:
>> > (1) Shows themes you've gotten from sources other than the gallery (I
>> don't
>> > know if this is possible at this moment, but it will be someday, right?)
>>
>> No, why is it useful to see themes you've previously installed? I
>> mean, why is it anymore than seeing any other webpage you've
>> previously visited. We already have mechanisms to find things you
>> visited previously. Why does themes need it's own?
>>
>> > (2) Limited to the set of themes you've actually shown interest in by
>> using.
>> > Think about if the gallery had several thousand themes (the way Firefox
>> has
>> > several thousand Personas).
>>
>> I don't even buy that this would work. You can't tell which themes you
>> like by looking at the picture. I suspect it is more typical to
>> actually try it on for size before deciding it is hideous/awesome.
>>
>> > (3) Usable while offline/unable to access gallery (silly reason).
>>
>> You're right, silly.
>>
>> > The first two are sufficient reasons to me that I've been surprised to
>> not
>> > see this kind of a switch in the WIndows UI.
>>
>> Funny, you recently argued in a different thread (about a different
>> feature request) that the cost for following a link is basically nil,
>> so there shouldn't be any separate UI other than that ;-).
>>
>> Agree right now that installing a theme is slightly higher cost than
>> following a link. But it shouldn't be.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, PhistucK<phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Seeing as there is currently no UI for it other than actually installing
>> a
>> > theme again, I would say the theme selection dropdown is kind of a
>> needed
>> > element.
>>
>> We should change the word "install" to "pick". Why should there be a
>> different UI for re-picking a theme than there is for the initial
>> pick?
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Caleb Eggensperger<caleb...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > It would be nice for the UI for "installing" a theme to be the same as
>> > for choosing it again. Maybe the themes directory could have an
>> > "already installed" section, although I think the fact that I've
>> > installed a theme and moved on to another means I'm less interested in
>> > using it again.
>> >
>> > A dropdown would become kinda unmanageable with a large number of
>> > themes, unless there's a way to remove them, and not nearly as usable
>> > as the themes directory is now. What if I can't remember what "legal
>> > pad" looks like?
>>
>> Good points!
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM, PhistucK<phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I meant it would be nice as a temporary solution, until a
>> chrome://themes
>> > page or something comes up.
>> > And per your wondering - when you mouse over\select a theme with the
>> > keyboard arrows (but no mouse click, nor Enter key press is made), a
>> preview
>> > can be shown, or the whole theme can change.
>> > That would have to make the theme transitioning faster and more fluid,
>> of
>> > course, but that is the intention anyway, so this could be step one.
>> > If you do not select a theme at last (clicking otherwise), the theme
>> will
>> > revert to the one it has been.
>>
>> I think we should just make the install process more fluid, less "costly".
>>
>> - a
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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