2008/5/13 Conn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thing is, if you can't push the changes upstream and have to fork, you > > *need* to have this packaged and put into Ubuntu (or any distro) if you > > expect the engine to gain traction. Needing people to compile the > engine > > themselves will harm adoption. I will also say, Ubuntu will not accept > > this as a patch to Clearlooks. > > Remember that Ubuntulooks essentially began as a fork of Clearlooks. > Now we are "stuck" with this unmaintained engine, while Clearlooks > remains well-maintained and (slowly but surely) has had new features > and styles introduced. > > If all this NewLook fork does is apply slight changes to the > Clearlooks engine, I would suggest you forget about it and adopt a > "hybrid" theme, using only well-maintained engines (clearlooks, > murrine), or even use "pixmap" as a placeholder to make a convincing > case for a new style to be added to the official Clearlooks (or > possibly Murrine) engine. > > To modify an existing engine means that it becomes yet another fork > with a few new features. That's nice, but what happens in six months > time when the person who created this fork gets bored, and the patches > stop applying cleanly to the Clearlooks engine? This is a serious > technical issue that should not be ignored. > > Conn > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >
Yeah, I'm still there and sometimes I read that mailing list :) The next relese of murrine should be much more feature rich to not require any additions. Also I don't want to spread the voice about the svn version because first we need a rgba gtk patch (which is currently being written). If you have suggestions for murrine, instead writing here, please post a BUGREPORT: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=murrine Cheers -- Andrea "Cimi" Cimitan - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Website: http://www.cimitan.com Murrine Author: http://murrine.cimitan.com GNOME Developer: http://www.gnome.org
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