On Monday, 31 March 2008, at 18:21:57 (+0100), The DarkMaster wrote: > I think almost everyone is understimating the problem. This is a very bad > issue only Enlightenment has and a lot people asks why does this happen, > even in our OpenGEU FOrums. Even creting EWL, ETK, etc. themes is really > something bad a user has to do. Once you create an E17 theme, it should be > one for everything, you cannot have to create a theme for every library > used. No other DE / VM has such a behaviour. For example, in Gnome you > customize everything by creating a GTK theme, same in KDE. A user cannot be > left with no choice than creating a single E17 theme and let the others > applications look weird and different from the Others. This is rally really > bad for any user and it also gives the users a really bad impression of the > entire Enlightenment. I think we should find a way to unify everything in a > single basic theme that has to be created, Sthithaprajna's way may be one > but tehre may be other ways too. > > Just please do not understimate this problem, because it is a problem and it > a very huge one too.
It's only a problem if you're one of Those crazy people who believes one of the following two myths: 1. Enlightenment is a desktop environment. 2. All your apps must/should look the same. Enlightenment and the EFL are not intended for Those people. :-) Anyone who intends to create a distribution around a belief in either or both of these myths should be prepared to compensate for their faulty assumptions, possibly via a unified "theme picker" tool which changes themes for the various components simultaneously. Of course, all this can be avoided by simply using E for what it is, not what it isn't (or what someone wants to force/pretend it to be). :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "It pleases me that you care for what I have become, but never forget who I was, what I am, and what I can do." -- Mira Furlan (Ambassador Delenn), Babylon Five ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
