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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Adding IceWM themes to KDE
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-05-01 16:39:22
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Well, I could see removing B3, but I didn't write this so would want
Kurt's agreement. B3 basically is tiny changes to the default style when
we couldn't agree upon small UI stuff. Nothing really came of it.

As far as SGI, we have 2, QT SGI and the KDE SGI. My opinion is we keep
the Qt one, since we have to have it around anyways and it looks quite
nice.

For system, we need to keep one of them because I've seen users actually
use it. The experimental one I guess could go, but I don't see a problem
keeping it since it's just an additional theme config file and does look
different (different buttons, etc...).



Torsten Rahn wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 01 May 2001 17:59, mosfet wrote:
> > The widget theme code/data is very, very small. Wallpapers take up much
> > more space.
> 
> Sure they are quite small - as is each wallpaper counted alone.
> Still I think those three styles are redundant.  A good basic set
> of styles provides a variety of very different styles (in terms of
> taste) to make most users happy.
> Providing too many "extra" styles which only look in a subtil way
> different from some others will be perceived by the user as
> "all kde-styles look almost the same to me" (another
> complaint I also heard by some people).
> 
> Greetings,
> Tackat
> 
> > Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 May 2001 13:05, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > > > Cullmann Christoph wrote:
> > > > > Am Sonntag, 29. April 2001 09:04 schrieb Karol Szwed:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I would like to add original IceWM themes specifically made for KDE
> > > > > > 2.2 by KDE artists to KDE CVS. A preview of one is at
> > > > > > http://gallium.n3.net/mm.gif
> > >
> > > No, bad idea. We already had a lot of complains at Cebit that even
> > > downloading qt-copy, kdelibs and kdebase is nothing many people can
> > > afford.
> > >
> > > I'd like to see a minimum set of four themes (i mean our "metathemes"
> > > which are provided by kthememgr  in kdebase and the rest in kdeartwork
> > > (so there would.
> > > Also I'd like to see the widget-themes cut down a bit.
> > > Nobody is really keen on having 2 versions of SGI-widget-themes or a
> > > B3/KDE-theme which looks almost exactly like the Default-theme.
> > > The same applies for System++ and System-Series which look almost
> > > identical. 99% of the users _won't care_ about the subtil differences
> > > between those "twin-pairs" I mentioned. Therefore one of each
> > > should go into kde-artwork.
> > > During the next days I'll also move some of the wallpapers we have into
> > > kdeartwork.
> > > Making it possible to download our minimum set functionality (qt,
> > > kdelibs, kdebase) is critical for the success of KDE because our system
> > > will spread faster. Not to be mentioned that people will think less of
> > > "bloat" when they hear KDE.
> > >
> > > > > > Where would be the best place to put them? I don't want to fill up
> > > > > > kdebase with themes... It would be nice if KDE came with some nice
> > > > > > eye-candy by default though - what do you think?
> > >
> > > kdeartwork
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > Tackat

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