The default theme for F12

Michal Nowak mnowak at redhat.com
Mon Aug 3 15:26:09 UTC 2009


----- "Matthias Clasen" <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 15:35 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Matthias Clasen (mclasen at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Hey all,
> > > 
> > > we've been discussing the idea of changing the default
> GTK+/Metacity
> > > theme in F12. Nodoka has been the default for a while, and it
> seems to
> > > undergo a major rework now ( http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/
> ).
> > > 
> > > We don't want to do a radical visual change, though. The idea is
> to go
> > > back to the upstream default, Clearlooks.
> > 
> > Well, that would still be a visual change. Given that he's
> restarting
> > nodoka from scratch, that would leave the options as being either:
> > - go to clearlooks
> > - stay with the old nodoka version
> > ?
> 
> I see that I should have phrased this better... 
> 
> What I meant to covey is: we _do_ want some visual change, e.g. get
> rid
> of some small annoyances in the current default theme, such as the
> dotted lines in treeviews. 
> 
> But as far as change goes, it is probably fine to keep it subtle
> (like
> going to Clearlooks) and not radical, like Lennart proposes (pick a
> dark
> default theme). 
> 
> > Also, would we be changing the icon set?
> 
> I don't think think we have readily available options here.
> gnome-colors
> is popular and has a nice blue variant, but it is not packaged for
> Fedora atm. 
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562

Filled review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515280

Feel free to do the review.

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