[ubuntu-art] Theme Creator Mockup

Andrew rugby471 at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 23 08:28:10 GMT 2010


On 21/01/10 10:40, Anton Kerezov wrote:
> В 09:51 +0100 на 21.01.2010 (чт), Thorsten Wilms написа:
>> Maybe people are not quite sure what this is about?
>> Maybe the pixmap engine doesn't have many fans?
> 
> I don't understand why people think pixmaps are bad. With the power of
> today's computers you even don't see the difference between code based
> and image based theme plus the fact that the detail and quality is at
> least two times more for the little more you "pay".
> 
>>
>> You could try to raise some interest outside Ubuntu.
> 
> I'll definitely ask some more about this.
> 
>>
>> If it's worth it?
>> Is it possible the result would help you personally enough to make good
>> for the effort invested? Could it lead to an influx of decent themes?
>> Perhaps. I would likely try it out if it existed, but I would not write
>> such a tool. I'm much too disappointed of GTK theming and every
>> additional detail I learned about GTK made me like it less.
> 
> But as you say I might wait and see what Gnome 3.0 will deliver on the
> theming side. I thought that later this could be integrated with the css
> theme engine by simply having two (or more in the future) buttons:
> "Export pixbuf based theme" and "Export CSS based theme".
> 
> 
> ____________________________
> Anton Kerezov
> http://ankere.wordpress.com/
> 
> 

Is there any idea when this might be completed/started? Looks like a
genuinely useful tool

-- 
Andrew



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