On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 22:14 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 02:01 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > If so, what is the new recommended way to > > > change themes? > > > > The recommended way is not to, and use the nice new themes we're > > preparing for GNOME 3. If you really want to tweak, gsettings on the > > command-line for now. There's supposed to be a tweak panel coming at > > some point. > > on a pragmatic level, I think we're *really* going to want to have some > sort of tweak mechanism available in F15 (assuming we do wind up > shipping Shell in it). Otherwise the masses are sure going to be > revolting. I like using default themes, but when I tell people this they > usually seem to look at me as if I've grown an extra head. > > (I'm not entirely sure it's even theoretically possible to settle the > great 'Aw3som3 Killer Dark Theme' vs 'Cool Mac-Like Light Theme' debate > with a one-size-fits-all default, either. If some kind of color > customization of the default theme is available that'd probably be > enough; mostly people seem to equate 'theme' with 'color', in my > experience.) There's nothing stopping the tweakers from getting started on writing the plumbing app. There's a mockup here: http://www.hadess.net/2010/02/were-removing-settings-again.html And gnome-control-center has plenty of examples of how to write panels. Somebody just needs to get started with it. Note that this wouldn't go in gnome-control-center itself. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
