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
>
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> debian/rules
>
>
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