On 10/24/2002 10:21 AM, Matthew Garrett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not convinced. Different toolkits behave differently. A naive user > shouldn't have to understand why their KDE-based mail client behaves > slightly differently to their Gnome-based news client. I dislike using > non-GTK applications, and I'm willing to accept a slight reduction in > functionality to achieve this. > Good point. This is another good technical reason to segregate Gnome and KDE and have a menu linking to different apps based upon which toolset/libraries are loaded, i.e. which desktop environment the user is using.
Now, that said, it would be nice if Debian Desktop developed a set Debian branded themes across all the major GUIs that had common color pallettes, icons, wallpaper, themes, etc. I do not mean making KDE and Gnome look exactly alike - just similar Debian oriented themes. Those special qualities that make KDE and Gnome special unto themselves should be there to shine through :-) And down the road, I would like to do some serious reasearch into User Interface best practices, and tweak the configuration settings for KDE, Gnome, et al so that they behave in a manner consisten with best UI practice. But there are other things more urgent that need work for now. Cheers, Luke Seubert
