Gary Kline on wrote... | On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 05:37:41AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: | > kline> Any any rate, on the CTWM website would it make sense to | > kline> have as many examples of users' .xsession and .ctwmrc files | > kline> with sample screenshots? | > | > Uhm, I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say. You have | > probably seen there there *are* a bunch of user-provided examples, so | > I wonder if you're trying to say there are too many? | The biggest problem I have with the ability to select themes is that it requires a seperation of 'menu', 'user menus', number of workspaces, icon windows or icon areas, and just what applications a user uses. Every user example I have seen depends to tighly on the application the user uses!!!!
Basically people generating themes must follow very restrict limits and rules about what they can and can NOT do in their theme configuration. The ideal solution is some sort of standard include methology, which generates a standard menu for the available themes, with appropriate 'reset theme' between the loading and trialing of each theme. Then there is the where these themes are to be stored. Both system-side theme/styles and personal theme/styles. And finally how people can distribute new themes (both the ctwmrc configuration and the image files), such that they can co-exists with other themes and user menus. All these are protocol problems that must be worked out by the CTWM developer. Any other group of people doing this will be prone to making a poor hash of the situation, which is what we have seen so far on the net. Basically we need a central coordinated effort, to develop CTWM theme support. PS: I have my own set of twm icons and theme, and while I have tried to seperate the theme from application and user menu specifics, I have not done a good job. You can see this at... http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons/appl/twm/Icons.html Which uses a 'tomato' colored set of title bar buttons. PPS: this is quite old and probably needs an update with a proper screen shot. PPPS: Yes I know I am joing this discussion late, but then I have been in China for the last three weeks. :-) Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's like being nibble to death by,.. Ah... feathers, long bills, webbed feet, go quck? Molari -- Babylon 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
