On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 14:32 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 18:33 -0400, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:46 -0500, Kyle Pointer wrote: > > > I just updated my fedora core 4 test 1 to fedora core 4 test 2 just to > > > see if there where any sort of changes I wasn't getting with YUM. > > > And I noticed that they have changed the default theme. :-\ > > > I love the old Bluecurve theme and think it should stay the same. And I > > > think the GNOME LOGO or Red Hat should be optional somehow. Because one > > > of the major reasons I have been using redhat products is because how > > > nice they look. > > > Now don't get me wrong, I think ClearLooks is nice and all, but I still > > > think the default theme should be Bluecurve. > > > I mean, its simple enough to change it, but when I was a new user and > > > had no idea how to change themes etc. I had always been very fond of > > > bluecurve. > > > -- Kyle Pointer > > > > > > > I agree wholeheartedly - why not keep the old BlueCurve as the > > default theme? I also believe that the RedHat logo should be optional. > > After all, that's what makes Fedora what it is - it's distinguishable > > red hat (Fedora). > > I actually prefer ClearLook to BlueCurve, but each to their own. > > I believe (but could be wrong) that the move to ClearLook is part of the > philosophy of trying to follow upstream trends as much as possible for > various packages. With ClearLook set to become the default theme for > Gnome it would appear that FC is following this upstream trend and using > is as the default them for FC4. > > > R. > > My main problem with something like that is that there is no KDE "Clearlooks" theme, and that would undo the work of quite a few people who worked on bluecurve specifically to 'unite' the KDE and GNOME desktops so that an applications from KDE look like GNOME applications and don't confuse new users. ( not that its that big of a deal ), but what I would like to propose is that the "Global Theme" be something that can be chosen with say, firstboot. I'd be glad to attempt to implement that, but I have never used PyGTK before so I probably won't get very far very soon. Any other ideas? system-config-themes :-P That might be a little overdone but, it would give users a choice. Because most users have 'no' idea how to edit /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and get the theme they want. Just a proposition. -- Kyle Pointer