On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:01:58PM -0400, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > I agree! Now if only GNOME CVS would compile for me :-) *sigh* that's > what I get for living on the bleeding edge. > > I liked the idea of icon themes - you could make an E theme, a GTK+ > theme, and a GIMP icon theme so that every part of your user > experience would be "themed"! IMHO, this is a serious problem with the current theming structure. If one is using GTK themes and GTK apps, that should be enough to theme one's entire user-experience! It is a TREMENDOUS inconvenience to have to make an Xdefaults file, a gtk theme, an (insert windowmanager here) theme, a KDE theme, a terminal background, and an xmms skin just to get a reasonably consistent desktop. As someone that likes to change themes based on my mood, I find that it can take me up to 25 minutes to get all of the settings configured properly, even if I have them all figured out in advance. Adding more (GIMP themes, or "skins", or whatever) to the pile would do nothing but bother me, and probably a significant number of other theme users/creators. I like the icons, don't get me wrong, they're pretty: but I think that if GIMP stuck with theme-neutral icons (the GNOME ones go pretty well with just about any color scheme) and stayed away from developing its own "themes.org" structure, it would be a very good thing.
