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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: klegacyimport -> gtkimport
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-05-16 19:40:30
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Well, like I said, I'm not really against a name change (although I think we 
should stay with the current one). I was just rather insulted because there 
*were* reasons we chose that name and no one asked me about changing it, 
which is common courtesy even for a tiny bit of code.

GTK themes are fucked up right now anyways, so it doesn't really matter. I 
understand why the original author didn't want to maintain it >:)

Right now I'm doing some pixie and KStyle hacking (not GTK styles), but what 
I would prefer would be a "Universial Theme Importer". We could now handle 
GTK widget themes and icewm themes. The code Gallium did for ICEWM is really 
good and it could easy be made to parse other window manager's decorations 
(I'm hoping to get rid of the crap I did for KWM themes and replace it with 
his). People would pop in a theme for any of these systems and it should be 
able to import it...

On Wednesday 16 May 2001 02:03 pm, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> >    Hi!
> >
> > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:24:48PM -0500, mosfet wrote:
> > > Big long discussion? I see 4 posts here made before the change, 2 for
> > > and 2 against. There was also a couple posts on the CVS list, with
> > > mixed results.
> >
> > Ok, here is another opinion:
> >
> > I think you can't really choose which software people want to use. And if
> > they want gtk pixmap themes in KDE, there will be a reason for that.
> > Maybe native KDE theming is too hard to do for graphic artists, maybe
> > there are many good Gtk themes out there, maybe the fact that
> > "programmed" theme rendering is faster than "pixmapped" theme rendering
> > doesn't outweigh the simplicity of gtk pixmap themes, maybe people want
> > their GNOME and KDE apps look the same if they use both on the desktop.
> >
> > I don't know.
> >
> > Anyway I think that if you want these reasons to change, fixing the
> > problems people have is the only way to go. Calling your program
> > klegacysomething won't fix any of the users problems, but
> >
> > a) make it harder to find where they need to look to get their Gtk theme
> > run with KDE
> > b) in a subtile way insult Gtk (some) fans
>
> Very well said! Though it's still up to mosfet to decide on the name of
> his app. Mosfet, please consider.
>
> Uwe
>
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