On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:24:48 +0000 Al Poole <nets...@gmail.com> said:
> Hi all, > > I want to make a very simple proposition. > > Can we return Enlightenment's theming specific to E itself and have > elementary theming handled separately. Or the choice of the two when > setting themes. > > The argument against this is for a uniform look between applications and > the desktop. I don't think this is so important given the scope of existing > applications and also the target plaforms (including Windows and MacOS). I > don't think it's a necessity to bind E to ELM look. > > This would make theming the desktop a much less arduous task. they share many aspects. e's borders are used in elm too (under different group names). they are used for client-internal border (EWS) and for client-side decorations for wayland and x11 CSD mode. menus are common too but again - different groups and different code design but having them in 2 different themes is going to lead to more inconsistency. widgets are common too. e_Widgets are going to go away and thus elm stuff will dictate e's look and feel very heavily. icons are common too. there is a huge amount of overlap and splitting means then duplication and divergence. also theming a desktop involves theming the widgets. e's own ui and use of elm clearly makes that part of the same effort. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
