Il 20/04/2011 01:40, Dylan McCall ha scritto: > Is it just the concern of bothering the end > user with too many options, or is the “making things easier for > developers” rationale correct?
_I_ believe that "making things easier for developers" involves "making things prettier" for the end user. Just take a look at KDE, although it supports user customized themes, the main system provides a solid standard theme (Air) and - personally - all of the Qt4 apps looks quite well integrated with the main system. Now, take a Gnome 2.X desktop where the user changed both the Gtk+ engine and the theme, open up a couple of apps and they will look like they were written for two different desktops; add to this that every distribution out there provides a different theme: what should a developer do at this point? He's just stuck with the default colors/widgets, hoping that they will fit into the user theme. Things had to be changed, and this is certainly a nice enhancement for the GNOME's Desktop Experience. My two eurocents. -- Massimo Gengarelli <genga...@cs.unibo.it> According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee can't fly either, but the bumblebee doesn't know anything about the laws of aerodynamics, so it goes ahead and flies anyway. -- Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list