https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967
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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-20 20:26 -------
Please, do NOT reopen bug closed as INVALID..
I already explained why it is INVALID..
Bugzilla is not a place to discuss, cooker is the right place..
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Hi,
I noticed that Mandrake Galaxy gtk, while much nicer looking atm than
Mandrake Galaxy KDE, does not seem to be able to change colors, at
least that I've noticed. The issue being that if I'm using KDE, like many of
your users are, I may choose to change the color scheme, which inturn
causes GTK stuff to stick out really badly.
There is a very easy way to solve this, which is why I am reporting this.
libqtpixmap, a derivative of the libpixmap engine employed by most GTK
themes, does color matching with KDE's color settings. Now, I'm not sure
how Galaxy's theme engine works, but I'm assuming importing the code for
this other engine (which is the one used for Geramik, by the way) would be
relatively easy. If, on top of that, you made a little tool to adjust the color
settings from Gnome, Mandrake would be the FIRST distribution (afaik) to
offer both KDE and Gnome users and easy way to keep all major
applications using the same color scheme!
This would dramatically improve Galaxy and fix a major usability "bug"
between KDE and Gnome that has never been solved before right out of
the box. Using a static color palate in GTK apps is alright, but the whole
unified look is only good so long as no one changes the KDE color
scheme. I noted this in my review of Red Hat Linux 8 (at OfB.biz) and
marked down the visual apperance somewhat because of that problem. In
a way unified widgets giving the appearance of all the applications being
the same, will probably confuse users MORE when the color palates won't
change all of the applications. It'll probably result in support headaches, I'd
suspect.
Anyway, libqtpixmap is available for both GTK1 and GTK2. I can't say how
much I think this would be a great thing, and everyone who has ever
wanted to be able to easily adjust GTK color schemes (probably most
Windows migrants) will thank-you for making the change.
-Tim
