[openbeos] Re: Themes
- From: "Chris Peel" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:41:06 +0100
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> From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ryan Leavengood
> Sent: 07 September 2006 19:45
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: Themes
>
>
> On 9/7/06, Chris Peel <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > And to clarify - the only 'themeing' part of the o/s I was asking
> > about was the icons. I'm perfectly happy with the yellow tabs and
> > grey borders - hard-coded or not! :)
>
> I imagine it will not be a big deal to support changing icons
> in a nice way in Haiku. I doubt many developers will be
> complaining about that. You just happened to step on the
> "mine" of themes which has been discussed way too much on
> this list in the past five years.
Yes, I realise that now... :)
> One thing that has not been mentioned which I believe you
> asked for earlier is for other iconsets to be included in the
> base distribution. This I think is a problem in that someone
> will need to create those iconsets. As I'm sure the
> contestants in the icon design contest can attest to,
> creating icons is not easy, and there may not be enough
> resources in our community to create multiple iconsets which
> could be included in the base distro. This is why we are so
> focused on getting at least one good iconset to use as the
> base. It should be good enough that 99% of people are happy
> with it and don't care to change.
I was thinking it might make sense for the (say) 5 runners up to have their
themes included - I'm sure they'd be more than happy to complete their sets?
>
> For the remaining 1% it should be possible to change the
> icons without too much hacking, but I wouldn't count on other
> iconsets or even the easy means to change them to be included
> in the base distro. In other words you may not see an "Icons"
> Preference applet, but I'm sure someone could or will make an
> "IconChanger" application you could find on BeBits. Maybe
> that someone is you Chris, hint hint :)
Well, I have been playing with the HelloWorld and HelloWindow apps in R5
recently, so - who knows - it's probably about time I learnt C++... =)
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
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