Re: removing themes

2008-10-10 Thread Jeff
I think the point of their argument is that you can install that from apt if you need it, but it shouldn't be installed by default for aesthetics and size reasons. ...and it was quickly pointed out that the size was insignificant/negligible in this case, wasn't it? If you guys are concerned

Re: removing themes

2008-10-10 Thread Jeff
I'd like to voice my user opinion on the matter. I use mist, even though it is fugly compared to Clearlooks, because it is BLAZINGLY fast. The two are not even in the same fruit family comparing them, especially if you are running at 1920x1200 and dealing with webpages. For example, have, say,

Re: removing themes

2008-10-10 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 09 octobre 2008, à 23:33 +0200, Kenneth Wimer a écrit : I think that if we replaced the aging themes we could, in their place, include a couple of interesting new ones. I think users would get much more out of being able to select a modern sexy theme. In this way we offer our

Re: removing themes

2008-10-10 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Kenneth Wimer: I think that if we replaced the aging themes we could, in their place, include a couple of interesting new ones. I think users would get much more out of being able to select a modern sexy theme. In this way we offer our default theme, accessability themes and

Re: removing themes

2008-10-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Thomas Thurman wrote: Ysgrifennodd Kenneth Wimer: I think that if we replaced the aging themes we could, in their place, include a couple of interesting new ones. I think users would get much more out of being able to select a modern sexy theme. In this way we offer our default

Re: removing themes

2008-10-10 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Mark Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas, has there been any discussion about creating a standardised online repo of themes, with dynamic access from the appearance manager? Then we could highlight the standard GNOME themes there. Something like

Re: removing themes

2008-10-10 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Wouter Stomp: Something like Gnome-Art Next Gen would be nice to include by default, allowing easy access to plenty of new wallpapers and themes, including the official gnome ones. A video showcasing it is at http://www.vimeo.com/1354516 aha, so there is already something like