[Fedora 8 theme proposal] Fedora Nodoka Round 1

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 15:50 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 15:27 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > The big problem with the murrine engine is it does not honour colour
> > preferences like a well-behaved theme.
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> Do you mean the colours that can be set at theme details -> colours tab?
> They work if theme implements them, not the engine. Nodoka is done so
> that it take effect if you change them. 
> 
> However, if there is a desire and enough time (and people work) we can
> make a Nodoka engine to fit our needs better. I myself am not 100 %
> content with the murrine engine and would like to have some styles
> murrine engine probably does not support. I've also found an interesting
> engine which has the same effect on tabs I had in the mockups [1]. Maybe
> we can finish what we can with murrine engine, than derive a nodoka
> engine from it and gradually rewrite it to fit our needs. Your opinions?

Note that themes can use multiple engines. I wouldn't necessarily
recommend it, but it is possible, at least for prototyping.