It could be a plugin, like the mini player (with cairo...)
On 7/12/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I for myself don't really like the approach taken to enable theming support > in > Exaile. > > One really awesome thing is that it enables you to literally fully customize > Exaile's interface. But I think the price to pay is way too high. > > Firstly, to create or modify themes you either have to be very skilled with > XML > and especially the Gladefile format. Don't ever dare to skip closing one > element > or doing any other dirty things. If you do something like this here, > everything > breaks. The alternate way would be to use the Glade application. This one > actually works quite good. > > But what if someone willingly or accidentally removed or modified an > existing > widget in such a way, that Exaile cannot function properly anymore? (Think > of > the "name" attribute or something similar.) Sure, if the user does this, > it's > his own fault in the end, but I think such a case should be prevented in the > first case. > > Nothing against customizability but I think the casual user should not have > THAT > much control. As Peter Parker used to say: "With great power comes great > responsibility." > > I also think that having a way to customize the interface in place would be > very > convenient. Have a look at ticket #671[0] for a short presentation. > > > Just my 2ยข, Mathias > > [0] http://exaile.org/trac/ticket/671 > > -- > debian/rules > > _______________________________________________ Exaile-devel mailing list [email protected] http://exaile.org/mailman/listinfo/exaile-devel
