On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Sebastian Gurin <sgu...@montevideo.com.uy> wrote: > Hi Pantelis, > > my opinion about your point is: > > 1) it is not intuitive, for a common user, that gtk theme is responsible of > defining this properties (most users will first go to eclipse's > window->preference->appearence and try to futilesness configure from there)
Agreed, but are programmers "common users"? OTOH eclipse is of course used for many more things than an IDE so you are certainly right. > > 2) in a normal gnome environment (ubuntu's and opensuse's, for ex) ALL of the > themes installed (clearlox, crux, glider, synchronicity, default, > highcontrast, etc) waste vertical space in eclispe tree views (imho the > principal annoying thing of eclipse linux) My self didn't know till now that > there exists a theme gtk-qt that fix this. (but, think about it, why should I > know that?) For what is worth, it is KDE users that use gtk-qt. If all the normal gtk themes are broken, is this a problem only for eclipse or for other apps too? If there is at least one more app with problems then it might be a better choice to fix at least one gnome gtk theme imho (preferably all / the most common). > > 3) it seems that t eclipse is doing nothing to improve eclipse+linux user > experience in this way.... > > I think eclipse shoud define an appropiate theme customization and at least > give the user the oportunity to use it. Believe me that several > unexpierienced-in-gnome users will appreciate something like that! That would be nice. Perhaps there can be a "gtk theme configuration plugin" for eclipse developed here in linux-distros. (This might mean though it will only be in e.g., Fedora and Gentoo and not in the official tarballs) Or eclipse could be more explicit in telling users that it is Gtk they should be looking at, if they have theme problems. Cheers, Pantelis _______________________________________________ linux-distros-dev mailing list linux-distros-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-distros-dev
