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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: theme vs. style
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-11-02 20:11:34
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Yep, and I thought you and Tackat were supposed to be working on a theme
installer - at least that is what I recall from months ago...

Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> He is completely right.
> 
> On Thursday 02 November 2000 03:22, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > any comments by those who have written the mentioned code?
> >
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > How is that suppose to be intuitive? Every other themeing system
> > on any OS that I've seen has done window decoration via themes
> > and not seperatly, I have been a KDE user for 2 years and had no
> > idea this is how its done, can you imagine how the new user
> > would find this?
> >
> > Themes are hidden under styles, there is no easy way to
> > add/install/remove them. And then there is an "Install theme"
> > button under Icons, this seems to be what I want, then I find
> > out that there are Button themes as well, this is way to
> > confusing and complex.
> >
> > So far KDE 2 supports:
> >
> > Window Decorations
> > Desktop Styles
> > Icon Themes
> >
> > In Windows, Mac, Linux ( Enlightenment, Windowmaker, etc. etc.
> > ), and so on the combination of all 3 of these things are called
> > a "Theme", it seems like KDE has confusingly redefined what a
> > "Theme" is.
> >
> > It took me a week just to figure out how to install Aquatica,
> > and it didn't even apply its style to my window decorations, how
> > is that a theme? That is like a 1/2 theme in my opinion.
> >
> > This whole process is admitedly more controllable and probably
> > powerful, its just too confusing though to automatically
> > decouple these from eachother ( the three components of a theme).
> >
> > Is theme handling in KDE2 going to change in the future? Or is
> > this the way its going to be?
> >
> > For example, I found gnome/sawfish themes incredibly easy to
> > install, I downloaded the tar.gz file, pointed the "theme file"
> > at the theme, then pressed "install theme" and it did. The
> > buttons, windows, and style all changed due to the theme, this
> > is the behavior I was expecting.
> >
> > Please inform me on whats going on with Themes in KDE,
> >
> > best wishes,
> >
> > -Riyad

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