[ubuntu-art] Metacity Button Order Changed

Alin-Andrei nilarimogard at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 19:49:21 GMT 2010


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 21:45, Chris Tooley <euxneks at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Alin-Andrei <nilarimogard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 21:34, Chris Tooley <euxneks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I don't think the theme is going to directly affect other themes. As
> >> far as I can remember (correct me if I'm wrong), the button layout is
> >> an option you can set with gnome config.  I certainly know it's an
> >> option for emerald anyway.
> >
> >
> > A very common scenario: A n00b (and not only!) searches for themes in the
> > Software Center, installs the package with Dust and New Wave and tries
> them
> > out: everything will be very messy. You just can do thing like this in a
> > default installation...
>
> Doesn't a theme have the ability to define where the window controls
> are located in relation to the title, etc?
>
> -Chris
>
>

I guess the themes can modify the gconf entries - those installed by .deb
files only (so those from the Ubuntu repos)! But all the themes would have
to be updated.

The rest of the themes... oh well, there will have to be different versions
for Ubuntu users or something.
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